Fact Check: This Isn't Named After Me South Windsor (Google Maps Location) February 2009 Connecticut museum visit #88. Weird. No, not the fact that a rarely open library has a museum that they advertise as a museum. What's weird is going somewhere named the Wood Memorial. Seeing as though my last name … [Read more...]
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A Whale of a Museum West Hartford (Google Maps Location) December 2008 and January 31, 2009 2022-25: This long-running museum and its iconic whale sculpture have been booted from their home in favor of luxury condos. They collection has moved into a temporary home at West Hartford's Emanuel Synagogue where they … [Read more...]
104. Buttolph-Williams House
Get Olph Your Butt Already Wethersfield (Google Maps Location) May 28, 2009 This was perhaps the easiest pun-title on all of CTMQ. It's been in my head for years and after finally visiting this easily accessible historic house museum and learning "Buttolph" is actually pronounced "Butt-off," I was ecstatic. I … [Read more...]
Vernon Historical Society Museum
Ver-nonentities vs. Rockvillains Vernon/Rockville (Google Maps Location) May 2009 CT museum visit #106. How about some music to accompany your reading. "Rockville?" you say? "But you're in Vernon. What gives?" More on that later... As CTMQ readers know, I'm eternally fascinated by Connecticut's … [Read more...]
94. St. Joseph College* Art Gallery
Gettin' Nasty West Hartford (Google Maps Location) March 11, 2009 Update: This is now the "Art Gallery at the University of St. Joseph" as the school stepped it up a bit in 2012. Also, it is now part of the Connecticut Art Trail. I really should revisit this place and get better pictures, as it's only a few … [Read more...]
108. Plainville Library Museum
All of Their Eggs in One Basket Plainville (Google Maps Location) May 28, 2009 Adhering to CTMQ bylaw 9.7 - "If they call themselves a museum, it's a museum" - I hereby present to you the smallest museum I’ve visited to date. I'll be quite surprised to find one smaller on my quest... But one never knows. (Which … [Read more...]
102. CT Audubon Society Center at Pomfret
Don't Fret; A Title Pun is in the Pom of my Hands... Pomfret (Google Maps Location) May 17, 2009 I'm pretty certain we are the only family who gets in their car, drives up and down hills for an hour east to Pomfret in order to check out a small Audubon Society nature center. After all, there are larger Audubon and … [Read more...]
UConn Greenhouses
Biology: The Study of Life... And What is More Important Than LIFE?! UConn Storrs (Google Maps Location) February 25, 2009 Ahhhh, home. Like the plants on view, I was rooted in this very building for four years. The smells... The sights... It was nice to be back "home." Yes folks, I hold a biology degree from … [Read more...]
Yale University Art Gallery
How great Thou art, How great Thou art! New Haven (Google Maps Location) November 26, 2008 The Yale Art Gallery is a Connecticut Art Trail site The Yale Art Gallery is huge. Too huge for me to even pretend to do it justice here. Put it this way: If you are at least a little bit interested in art - good, … [Read more...]
83. Institute of Living Museum
Man, This Museum is Crazy! Hartford (Google Maps Location) January 26, 2009 This little museum has been on my radar since I began this blog. It's one of the first places I knew about that never turned up on any search engines no matter what criteria you used. I was proud of the fact that I was "in the know" … [Read more...]
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