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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

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

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

PhotoSynthesis Gallery

February 1, 2011 by Steve 3 Comments

Down the Dark Alleys of Manchester* PhotoSynthesis Gallery, Manchester November 2010 *Photosynthesis moved to East Hartford and I revisited, at bottom, in 2019. This was Connecticut museum visit #197. What a day. A surprise visit from EdHill, a hastily thrown together itinerary, A fairly well-behaved Damian, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Art, Damian, EdHill, Free Museums, Manchester, Not Really a Museum Museum, Nudity

Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery

December 22, 2010 by Steve 1 Comment

A Show of Hans… Who Likes Quilts? Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester (Location) November 2010 Connecticut museum visit #196. The state's 12 community colleges merged into a single institution in 2023. To answer my title, I do not like quilts or quilting. And judging by this picture, neither does … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Art, Colleges & Universities, EdHill, Free Museums, Manchester

199. Abbey of Regina Laudis Crèche

December 13, 2010 by Steve 2 Comments

I’m Not a Prayer, I Just Crèche A Lot Bethlehem (Google Maps location) December 4, 2010 Thank you, thank you. I’ve had a lot of rather excellent titles over the years, but this may be my favorite. It just stinks that most people over the age of 50 or so won’t get the reference. Oh well; their loss. (Another … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Bethlehem, Damian, Free Museums, Hoang, Not Really a Museum Museum

198. Governor’s Residence

December 8, 2010 by Steve 2 Comments

One Rell of a Good Time Hartford (Google Maps location) December 4, 2010 I’ve made mention before about how I get a little thrill out of getting to visit rarely open museums (or in this case, museum-like things). Each time I do feels like a big win for me. I’ve had the Governor’s Residence on my CTMQ radar for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, Museums, Sports, Thrills, Tours, & Events Tagged With: Christmas, Damian, Free Museums, Hartford, Hoang, Not Really a Museum Museum, Rarely Open

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