Toolin' Along A Museum of Early American Tools, Eric Sloane (1964) Connecticut museum visit #541. This is a first. 541 Connecticut museums into this decades-long project and I'm calling a book I just read a museum. Which is ridiculous. Absurd. Ludicrous. The book was written by Eric Sloane, one of … [Read more...]
Founders League Private Prep School Museums
Fahncy Founders League Private Prep School Museums, Various Towns You can blame this page on my very specific, very undiagnosed, very arbitrary, very fake OCD. The thing that compels me to make lists and complete lists. Lists that exactly one person in the world cares about: me. As I was "completing" the town … [Read more...]
Rimmon School House (Closed)
Rimmon Job Rimmon School House, Beacon Falls November 2024 Y'know, this was never a museum and I'm 99% sure it will never be a museum, but here it is, what I'm calling Connecticut museum visit #531. Look, I get it. You think I'm just padding my museum visit stats. Fine. But do you really think that a guy … [Read more...]
American Mural Project
AMPed Up, Up, Up... American Mural Project, Winchester September 2024 Connecticut museum visit #524. Also, this is billed as the "largest indoor collaborative artwork in the world." I love big, ambitious projects. Heck, you're reading a very big ambitious project right now. Look at that first italicized bit … [Read more...]
Bethany Center School
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...]
Pegasus and Niche Galleries at MxCC
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...]
Chen Art Center Gallery
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...]
Bethany Museum of Impressionism
First Impressions... Bethany (Private home) December 2022 I don't often explain my page titles. Most of the time they are just so good and brilliant that they speak for themselves. Other times, they are just so great and beyond brilliant that only an elite few will appreciate them. (Those are the readers that know … [Read more...]
Goodspeed Opera House
Swingin' Good Time East Haddam (Google Maps location) June 10, 2017 Iconic. From a national view, there are very few things that are truly iconic in Connecticut. Yale, New Haven pizza, Mark Twain's House, Mystic Seaport maybe... insurance? The Whalers logo for sure. Um, Greenwich wealth? CTMQ? But if … [Read more...]
The Norfeldt Kindergarten Museum
This is My Site and My Son, So There West Hartford May 4, 2017 Warning: This is a vanity post. I am writing this for me and my family, not any of you. It's not the first and it won't be the last. And I don't care. I deserve to be able to do such things once every five years or so. The Norfeldt Kindergarten … [Read more...]
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