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Vernon Railroad Depot Outdoor Museum

June 18, 2011 by Steve 1 Comment

A New Museum, Right on Track Vernon Railroad Depot Outdoor Museum, Vernon (Location) May 2011 CT museum visit #202. These days, it’s pretty rare for me to learn about a Connecticut museum of which I was previously unaware. So imagine my glee the day I was reading the column of the one Hartford Courant … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Damian, Free Museums, Outdoor Museums, Trains and Trolleys, Vernon

201. The Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies

June 16, 2011 by Steve Leave a Comment

I Think I’m Turning Japanese, I Really Think So Middletown (Google Maps location) April 23, 2011 Being married to a (south)east Asian woman and having produced two half-Vietnamese sons with her probably gives me a little more leeway with the Asian jokes than the next WASP guy. Oh, who am I kidding. Aside from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Art, Colleges & Universities, Damian, Free Museums, Gardens, Middletown, Wesleyan

165. Stamford History Center

June 7, 2011 by Steve 1 Comment

Stamf and Deliver Stamford (Google Maps location) May 8, 2010 When you undertake a project of the magnitude of CTMQ, it becomes somewhat impossible to devote the energy and vim to every. Single. Museum. Some museums suffer on these pages as a result of this natural order of things. Such is the case of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Stamford, stamford historical society, Town History

209. Lyme Art Association

June 5, 2011 by Steve Leave a Comment

I’ve Got Lyme Art Association Disease Old Lyme (Google Maps location) May 18, 2011 It’s unfortunate that the Lymes of Connecticut (Old Lyme, Lyme and East Lyme are real towns, Hadlyme is not and is actually not even part of one of them. And while I’m stuck in this parenthetical, I might as well mention that Lyme … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Art, Free Museums, Old Lyme

211. Norwich Arts Center Gallery

May 29, 2011 by Steve 3 Comments

EnABLING Forgery Norwich (Google Maps location) May 28, 2011 Have you ever driven around downtown Norwich? Of course you have if you've ever tried the "short cut" to the casinos thinking you'd just follow route 2 through town. Ha. It's a mess - a very oddly laid out mess. As we circled to and fro around the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Art, Free Museums, Norwich, Tiny Museums

159. Weston Woods (RIP)

May 24, 2011 by Steve 4 Comments

How the Weston Woods Was Won Weston (Google Maps location) March 13, 2010 Update: Morton Schindel passed away in 2016 at the age of 98. This place no longer exists as we visited it, and that makes my wife and I very, very sad. We both loved meeting Mort and could have spent a week with him in Weston. His house and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Appointment Only, Art, Closed/Gone/Former, Damian, Free Museums, Hoang, Weston

179. Marsh Botanical Garden Greenhouses

March 25, 2011 by Steve Leave a Comment

Not Just Marsh Plants New Haven (Google Maps location) August 4, 2010 I went to a lot of places on August 4, 2010. It was my one day per year I purposely take off from work in order to visit as many weekday-only joints and I was on the go all day. I went to a few places you wouldn't necessarily call museums, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Everything Else, Museums Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, Free Museums, Gardens, Greenhouses, New Haven, Not Really a Museum Museum, Plants, Yale

158. Stepping Stones Museum for Children

March 20, 2011 by Steve Leave a Comment

Get to Stepping! Norwalk (Google Maps location) March 13, 2010 Go to enough children's museums and they all start running together in your memory. Of course, I can’t imagine many people would go to every children's museum in the state, so in reality, there’s nothing wrong with that. Especially if they are all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Children's Museums, Damian, Hoang, Natural History, Norwalk

146. Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden

February 26, 2011 by Steve 1 Comment

Merry Christmas in July Bethlehem (Google Maps location) December 5, 2009 Here’s the deal: The Bellamy-Ferriday House is only open from May until October like most Connecticut Landmarks properties. But, you ask, you’re obviously there during Christmas! Yup… The house is open during Bethlehem’s Christmas … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Bethlehem, Connecticut Landmarks, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Historic Gardens, Historic Houses

The Peters Railroad Museum

February 23, 2011 by Steve 12 Comments

Dave Peters: CTMQ Hero Wallingford (Private Home) November 25, 2009 All aboarrrrd! All aboard the Peters Rail Road Museum bandwagon. There’s plenty of room right now, but once this page gets read and zipped around, it may be too late. Why? Because the Peters Rail Road Museum is just plain awesome. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Appointment Only, basement museums, Calvin, Damian, Free Museums, Hoang, Model Trains, private museum, Trains and Trolleys, Wallingford

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