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Gaylord House Museum

June 11, 2024 by Steve 1 Comment

Just Some Guy 1845 Gaylord House Museum, Hartland January 2019 CT Museum #517 Hartland is a lovely town. Really and truly. The 17 (est.) people that live there will tell you the same. And their one museum is lovely as well. I mean, c'mon. Pure New England here: And, as is typical of rural New England … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, Hartland, hartland historical society, historic house museums, Rarely Open, Town History

Windham Textile and History Museum – The Mill Museum

June 6, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

Wait Just a Cotton Pickin' Minute... Windham Textile and History Museum -The Mill Museum, Windham January 2019 CT Museum #408 I do not know why this museum has two names. Or rather, one official name that is two different names. My 20 seconds of research into the important matter took me to the museum's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Industrial History, willimantic, Windham

Bethany Center School

May 20, 2024 by Steve 1 Comment

On The Outside, Looking In Bethany (Google Maps location) May 2024 CT museum visit #516. The other day an article about me and this very website was published across a slew of Connecticut online outlets. The "Hearst Media" ones. It was about a guy (me) who claims to have visited 515 (now 516) museums across the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Bethany, Not Really a Museum Museum, School Houses, schools

Matchbox & Lesney Toy Museum

January 23, 2024 by Steve 9 Comments

Matchbox 20 x 2000 Matchbox & Lesney Toy Museum, Durham February 2020 Connecticut museum visit #459. Some photos and quotes are from the 2021 short documentary "The Matchbox Man." I beg commenters to please realize that this website has nothing in the world to do with Charlie Mack or his museum. The guy who wrote … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Appointment Only, Cars and Trucks, Durham, Nudity, private museum

Pegasus and Niche Galleries at MxCC

January 8, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

Niche Indeed Middletown (Google Maps location) December 2023 CT museum visit #514. I might be the first person to ever drive to the out-of-the-way Middlesex Community College campus for the sole purpose of seeing its two tiny art galleries who is not a close friend or relative of an exhibited artist. Hooray for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Colleges & Universities, Free Museums, Middletown, Not Really a Museum Museum, Tiny Museums

Adath Israel Judaica Museum

January 3, 2024 by Steve 4 Comments

Oy vey Middletown (Google Maps location) December 2023 CT museum visit #513. I don't quite remember how I first came to learn of the small museum at this synagogue in Middletown. I would guess it was more than a decade prior to my visit. I probably was poking around online when I was completing my walk around … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post, Religion, Cemeteries, Monuments, Statuary, Greens, & Outdoor Sculpture & Art Tagged With: Free Museums, Jewish, Middletown

Durham Fair Farm Museum

December 11, 2023 by Steve 2 Comments

Fair Dinkum* Durham Fair Farm Museum, Durham (Location) September 2023 Connecticut museum visit #507. *Fair Dinkum: slang, Australia. : unquestionably good or genuine : excellent. often used as a general expression of approval. I've been to Australia. People do actually say this there. People do not say it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, Durham, Fairs and Festivals, Farm, Rarely Open

Aetna Museum (Closed)

December 7, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

Aetna, Glad I Met Ya. I Guess. Hartford November 1999 CT museum visit #493, even though it closed to the public in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks and is probably in storage now. CVS purchased Aetna in 2018 for $69 billion. There aren't too many museums included on CTMQ that closed several years before CTMQ began. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Free Museums, Hartford, Other Companies and Businesses, private museum, Tiny Museums

Chen Art Center Gallery

November 28, 2023 by Steve 2 Comments

Chen, Chen, Chenge... New Britain (Google Maps location) November 2023 CT museum visit #509. Without checking, I'm going to say that almost all of our state's colleges and universities have at least one public art gallery. Some have multiple, and heck, there's Yale with two internationally acclaimed art … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, ccsu, Colleges & Universities, Free Museums, New Britain, Not Really a Museum Museum

Squire’s Tavern

November 21, 2023 by Steve 1 Comment

Not Quite a Hitchcockian Tale Squire's Tavern, Barkhamsted (Google Maps location) June 2023 Connecticut museum visit #504. I know this person doesn't exist, but if, somehow, at some point in the future you are this person, I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you, Barkhamsted Superfan, have read or will read my droning … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Barkhamsted, barkhamsted historical society, Creepy Dolls, Free Museums, historic house museums, Town History

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