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CTMQ > Free Museums

180. Ethnic Heritage Center

November 27, 2011 by Steve 1 Comment

Welcome to UkranItalAfriJewPotatoStan New Haven (Google Maps location) August 4, 2010 Ah, beautiful New Haven. Famed for its venerable university with brilliant students, incredible history and world class museums. Museums like The Ethnic Heritage Center, housed in what appears to be a giant cargo ship … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, Free Museums, museums visits, New Haven

172. King House Museum

October 26, 2011 by Steve Leave a Comment

My Day with the King of Suffield Suffield (Google Maps location) June 9, 2010 Two years prior to my King House visit, I was nearby along the beautiful route 75 in Suffield at another historic house museum, the Phelps-Hatheway Museum (my visit here), and I think it was only then that I learned of the King House … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, Free Museums, Historic Houses, Suffield, Take Back the Notch!, Tobacco, Town History

219. Thomas Griswold House

October 17, 2011 by Steve 4 Comments

I Want a CTMQ Keeping Society Guilford (Google Maps location) September 18, 2011 Years ago when I started this website and gathered up more and more museums around the state for my big list, I often questioned myself about one thing and one thing only. I knew I could visit them all in due time. I knew I could … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, Free Museums, Guilford, guilford keeping society, historic house museums, Historic Houses

212. Nathan Hale Schoolhouse (v.NL)

October 1, 2011 by Steve 1 Comment

”I Have But One Life to Give – And Two Schoolhouses of Course” New London (Google Maps location) May 21, 2011 I don’t know how many states have “State Heroes,” but I’m glad we do. Or rather, I’m glad Nathan Hale is “ours.” The house of his birth (that, as it turns out, he probably wasn’t born in nor did he … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Calvin, Damian, Free Museums, Hoang, New London, School Houses, Tiny Museums

Strain Family Horse Farm Cowboy Museum

September 26, 2011 by Steve 2 Comments

Neigh! A Cowboy Museum in Connecticut?! Yee Haw! Granby (Google Maps location) September 2011 I really, really wish I could remember how I found out about this place. I know it was fairly recently and I think it was the result of my 73,704th time checking those awful aggregator websites for anything they've … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Calvin, Damian, Free Museums, Granby, Hoang, Tiny Museums

217. Pleasant Valley School Museum

August 6, 2011 by Steve 2 Comments

Another Pleasant Valley Tuesday… South Windsor (Google Maps location) August 2, 2011 I’m not Monkee-ing around here. Hey, did you know the song the Monkees made famous (“Pleasant Valley Sunday”) was written by Carole King? I didn’t. But I did know that one of the Monkees, Peter Tork, was raised in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, Free Museums, School Houses, South Windsor, Tobacco, Town History

Connecticut River Valley Wildlife Museum

June 29, 2011 by Steve 1 Comment

Hunting for a Trap, I Found a Museum East Hartford (Google Maps location) Multiple visits Tell me if this hasn't happened to you: You till the soil and plant your vegetable gardens in late spring, your crops burst forth in all their glory, a plague of rabbits burst forth from their hutch under your deck and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Aquaria, Damian, East Hartford, Fish, Free Museums, Natural History, Other Companies and Businesses

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

Lyme Art Association

June 5, 2011 by Steve Leave a Comment

I’ve Got Lyme Art Association Disease Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme (Location) May 2011 This is a Connecticut Art Trail site. Connecticut museum visit #209. 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 … [Read more...]

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

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