Museum Visit Reports

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CTMQ Museum Visits:

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Visit 1. The New Britain Industrial Museum, New Britain, 10/6/2006
Visit 2. The Connecticut River Museum, Essex, 10/20/2006 & 12/10/2006
Visit 3. Witch’s Dungeon Classic Movie Museum, Bristol, 10/28/2006.
Visit 4. Butler-McCook House and Garden, Hartford, 12/7/2006
Visit 5. The Edward E. King Museum, East Hartford, 12/13/2006
Visit 6. The Barnes Museum, Southington, 12/28/2006
Visit 7. The Chatham Historical Society, East Hampton, 4/1/2007
Visit 8. The Luddy/Taylor Tobacco Museum, Windsor, 4/7/2007
Visit 9. The Berlin Historical Society Museum, Berlin, 5/12/2007
Visit 10. Brick School House Museum, Coventry, 5/20/2007
Visit 11. Strong-Porter House, Coventry, 5/20/2007
Visit 12. Menczer Museum of Medicine & Dentistry, Hartford, 5/25/2007 – Closed Moved!
Visit 13. Wethersfield Museum at Keeney Memorial, Wethersfield, 5/27/2007
Visit 14. Hurlbut-Dunham House, Wethersfield, 5/27/2007
Visit 15. Cove Warehouse, Wethersfield, 5/27/2007
Visit 16. Pratt House Museum, Essex, 6/2/07
Visit 17. Nathan Hale Schoolhouse, East Haddam, 6/9/2007
Visit 18. East Haddam Historical Society Museum, East Haddam, 6/9/2007
Visit 19. Canton Historical Museum, Collinsville, 6/28/2007
Visit 20. Knights of Columbus Museum, New Haven, 7/21/2007
Visit 21. Pardee-Morris House, New Haven, 7/21/2007 – Closed Re-Opened!
Visit 22. Fort Nathan Hale, New Haven, 7/21/2007
Visit 23. New Haven Museum, New Haven, 7/21/2007
Visit 24. Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and The Sea, Mystic, 8/11/2007
Visit 25. Old Manchester Museum, Manchester, 8/26/2007
Visit 26. Cheney Fire Station Museum, Manchester, 8/26/2007
Visit 27. Special Joys Doll & Toy Museum, Coventry, 8/26/2007
Visit 28. Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry, Mansfield, 8/26/2007
Visit 29. CT State Museum of Natural History, Storrs, 8/26/2007
Visit 30. The Stone Museum, Pleasant Valley, 9/23/2007
Visit 31. The CRRA Trash Museum, Hartford, 9/27/2007
Visit 32. Stanley-Whitman House, Farmington, 9/28/2007
Visit 33. Mystic Aquarium, Mystic, 10/10/2007
Visit 34. Essex Steam Train Museum, Essex, 10/10/2007
Visit 35. Heublein Tower Museum, Simsbury, 10/21/2007
Visit 36. Northwest Park Nature Museum, Windsor, 3/24/2007
Visit 37. Old State House Square/Museum of Curiosities, Hartford, 1/19/2008
Visit 38. Haul of Fame Truck Museum, Canterbury, 2/2/2008
Visit 39. Quinebaug Trout Hatchery, Central Village, 2/2/2008
Visit 40. Killingly History Museum, Danielson, 2/2/2008
Visit 41. CT Audubon Center at Glastonbury, Glastonbury, 3/8/2008
Visit 42. Burlington Trout Hatchery, Burlington, 3/21/2008
Visit 43. Eleanor Buck Wolf Nature Center, Wethersfield, 3/22/2008
Visit 44. Kid City, Middletown, 3/29/2008
Visit 45. Roaring Brook Nature Center, Canton, 5/3/2008
Visit 46. State Capitol Building, Hartford, 5/12/2008
Visit 47. Connecticut Legislative Office Building, Hartford, 5/12/2008
Visit 48. Connecticut Hall of Fame, Hartford, 5/12/2008
Visit 49. The State Supreme Court, Hartford, 5/12/2008
Visit 50. The Museum of Connecticut History, Hartford, 5/12/2008
Visit 51. Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, 5/17/2008
Visit 52. The Barnum Museum, Bridgeport, 5/17/2008
Visit 53. Audubon Coastal Center at Milford Point, Milford, 5/17/2008
Visit 54. The Merritt Parkway Museum, Stratford, 6/2/2008
Visit 55. The Museum on the Green, Glastonbury, 6/14/2008
Visit 56. Captain James Francis House, Wethersfield, 6/14/2008
Visit 57. Thankful Arnold House, Haddam, 6/14/2008
Visit 58. Thomas Lee House, East Lyme, 6/14/2008
Visit 59. The Little Boston Schoolhouse, East Lyme, 6/14/2008
Visit 60. Smith-Harris House, East Lyme, 6/14/2008
Visit 61. Flamig Educational Farm, West Simsbury, 6/22/2008
Visit 62. Somers Historical Society Museum, Somers, 6/28/2008
Visit 63. Miegs Point Nature Center, Madison, 7/12/2008
Visit 64. Westmoor Park, West Hartford, 7/20/2008
Visit 65. Colton-Hayes Tobacco Barn, Granby, 7/27/2008
Visit 66. Abijah Rowe House, Granby, 7/27/2008
Visit 67. Weed-Enders House, Granby, 7/27/2008
Visit 68. Cooley School, Granby, 7/27/2008
Visit 69. Beardsley Zoo, Bridgeport, 9/20/2008
Visit 70. Carousel Museum at the Beardsley Zoo, Bridgeport, 9/20/2008
Visit 71. Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, 9/24/2008
Visit 72. New Britain Youth Museum, New Britain, 9/27/2008
Visit 73. New Britain Local History Room, New Britain, 10/1/2008
Visit 74. Plainville Historic Center, Plainville 10/1/2008
Visit 75. Davison Art Center Museum, Middletown, 10/3/2008
Visit 76. Ezra & Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, 10/3/2008
Visit 77. Beckley Furnace Industrial Monument, East Canaan, 10/5/2008
Visit 78. Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden, Suffield, 10/18/2008
Visit 79. Lutz Children’s Museum, Manchester, 10/25/2008
Visit 80. Slater Memorial Art Museum, Norwich, 11/14/2008
Visit 81. Yale University Art & Architecture Galleries, New Haven, 11/26/2008
Visit 82. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 11/26/2008
Visit 83. Institute of Living Museum, Hartford, 1/26/2009
Visit 84. Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments, New Haven, 1/29/2009
Visit 85. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, 1/29/2009
Visit 86. The Children’s Museum, West Hartford, 1/31/2009
Visit 87. Sessions Woods Nature Center Museum, Burlington, 2/18/2009
Visit 88. Wood Memorial Library and Museum, South Windsor, 2/23/2009
Visit 89. Husky Heritage Sports Museum, Storrs, 2/25/2009
Visit 90. UConn’s EEB Collections and Greenhouses, Storrs, 2/25/2009
Visit 91. UConn Contemporary Art Gallery, Storrs, 2/25/2009
Visit 92. Homer Babbidge Library/Dodd Center, Storrs, 2/25/2009
Visit 93. William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, 2/25/2009
Visit 94. St. Joseph’s College Art Gallery, West Hartford, 3/11/2009
Visit 95. Middletown Sports Hall of Fame, Middletown, 3/15/2009
Visit 96. Dinosaur State Park, Rocky Hill, 4/5/2009
Visit 97. Tunxis Community College Art Gallery, Farmington, 4/8/2009
Visit 98. New Britain Youth Museum at Hungerford Park, Berlin, 4/15/2009
Visit 99. American Clock & Watch Museum, Bristol, 4/17/2009
Visit 100. Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, Norwalk, 4/18/2009

100th Museum Celebration!

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Hoang and Damian at Topsmead in Litchfield


Visit 101. Action Wildlife Park and Taxidermy Museum, Goshen, 4/25/2009
Visit 102. Connecticut Audubon Society Center at Pomfret, Pomfret, 5/17/2009
Visit 103. American School for the Deaf Museum, West Hartford, 5/28/2009
Visit 104. Buttolph-Williams House, Wethersfield, 5/28/2009
Visit 105. Manchester Historical Society Loom Room, Manchester, 5/28/2009
Visit 106. Vernon Historical Society Museum, Vernon, 5/28/2009
Visit 107. Lock Museum of America, Terryville/Plymouth, 5/28/2009
Visit 108. Plainville Library Museum, Plainville, 5/28/2009
Visit 109. Connecticut Museum of Glass, Coventry, 5/30/2009
Visit 110. Haddam Shad Museum, Haddam, 5/31/2009
Visit 111. Gillette Castle, East Haddam, 5/31/2009
Visit 112. Livingston-Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy, Litchfield, 6/7/2009
Visit 113. Audubon Society Center at Fairfield, Fairfield, 6/13/2009
Visit 114. Walsh Art Gallery at Fairfield University, Fairfield, 6/13/2009
Visit 115. Fairfield Museum & History Center, Fairfield, 6/13/2009
Visit 116. Old Fairfield Academy and Barn, Fairfield, 6/13/2009
Visit 117. Ogden House and Gardens, Fairfield, 6/13/2009
Visit 118. Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, 6/13/2009
Visit 119. SoNo Switchtower Museum, Norwalk, 6/13/2009
Visit 120. Norwalk Museum, Norwalk, 6/13/2009
Visit 121. The Garbage Museum, Stratford, 6/26/2009
Visit 122. Stratton Brook Nature Center, Simsbury, 7/5/2009
Visit 123. Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame, Traveling Exhibit, 4/8/2009
Visit 124. Cyrenius H. Booth Library & Museum, Newtown, 7/13/2009
Visit 125. UConn Dairy Bar and Animal Barns, Storrs, 7/18/2009
Visit 126. Wilbur Cross Gallery, Storrs, 7/18/2009
Visit 127. KEEPSAKE: UConn’s Public Art, Statewide, Various dates
Visit 128. Brookfield Nature Center and Rock Museum, Brookfield, 7/20/2009
Visit 129. Flanders Nature Center, Woodbury, 7/24/2009
Visit 130. Buz Russell’s Farm and Rural Life Museum, Woodbury, 7/24/2009
Visit 131. Children’s Museum of Southeast Connecticut, Niantic, 7/25/2009
Visit 132. Chase Family Gallery at Mandell JCC, West Hartford, 7/30/2009
Visit 133. Philip Johnson’s Glass House, New Canaan, 8/1/2009
Visit 134. Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, 8/9/2009
Visit 135. Waterbury Button Museum, Waterbury, 8/9/2009
Visit 136. Nellie E. McKnight Museum, Ellington, 8/13/2009
Visit 137. Audubon Society at Bent of the River, Southbury, 8/14/2009
Visit 138. Hartford Medical Society Historical Library Collection, Farmington, 9/10/2009
Visit 139. Wickham Park Nature Center & Aviary, Manchester, 9/12/2009
Visit 140. White Memorial Conservation Center Nature Museum, Litchfield, 10/3/2009
Visit 141. Topsmead, Litchfield, 10/10/2009
Visit 142. Connecticut Science Center, Hartford, 10/12/2009
Visit 143. B.F. Clyde’s Cider Mill, Mystic, 10/24/2009
Visit 144. The Peters Rail Road Museum, Wallingford, 11/25/2009
Visit 145. District No. 1 Schoolhouse, Bethlehem, 12/5/2009
Visit 146. Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden, Bethlehem, 12/5/2009
Visit 147. James Morris Museum, Morris, 1/23/2010
Visit 148. Clare Art Gallery, Hartford, 1/23/2010
Visit 149. Mercy Gallery/Richmond Art Center, Windsor, 1/24/2010
Visit 150. Windsor Art Center, Windsor, 1/24/2010
Visit 151. Lamothe’s Sugar House, Burlington, 2/7/2010
Visit 152. Peter Greenwood Glass Studio, Barkhamsted, 2/20/2010
Visit 153. C.H. Pease Natural History Museum, North Canaan, 2/20/2010
Visit 154. Sherman Museum of Jewish Civilization, West Hartford, 3/3/2010
Visit 155. The Joseloff Gallery at UHa, West Hartford, 3/3/2010
Visit 156. Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford, 3/4/2010
Visit 157. Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford, West Hartford, 3/11/2010
Visit 158. Stepping Stones Children’s Museum, Norwalk, 3/13/2010
Visit 159. Weston Woods, Weston, 3/13/2010
Visit 160. Silverman’s Animal Farm, Easton, 4/10/2010
Visit 161. Wheeler House Museum, Westport, 4/10/2010
Visit 162. Museum of Westport History, Westport 4/10/2010
Visit 163. Audubon Center of Greenwich, Greenwich, 5/8/2010
Visit 164. Bruce Museum, Greenwich, 5/8/2010
Visit 165. Stamford History Museum, Stamford, 5/8/2010
Visit 166. Hoyt-Barnum House, Stamford, 5/8/2010
Visit 167. Fairfield County Sports Hall of Fame, Stamford, 5/8/2010
Visit 168. Hall Memorial Library History Room, Ellington, 5/19/2010
Visit 169. Young at Heart Doll Shop and Museum, Preston, 5/22/2010
Visit 170. Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, Mystic, 5/22/2010
Visit 171. Urban Museum of Modern Architecture, New Haven, Multiple vists
Visit 172. King House Museum, Suffield, 6/9/2010
Visit 173. Golden Age of Trucking Museum, Middlebury, 7/10/2010 – Now Closed
Visit 174. Hartford Art Space, Hartford, 7/16/2010
Visit 175. Sherwood Island Nature Center, Westport, 7/18/2010
Visit 176. CT Commission on Culture and Tourism Gallery, Hartford , 7/28/2010
Visit 177. ArtPlace at Yale Physcian’s Building, New Haven, 8/4/2010
Visit 178. The (4) Arts Council of Greater New Haven Galleries, New Haven, 8/4/2010
Visit 179. Marsh Botanical Gardens, New Haven, 8/4/2010
Visit 180. Ethnic Heritage Center, New Haven, 8/4/2010
Visit 181. The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Hamden, 8/4/2010
Visit 182. Wadsworth Mansion at Long Hill Estate, Middletown, 8/4/2010
Visit 183. Real Art Ways, Hartford, 8/5/2010
Visit 184. CT High School Coaches Hall of Fame, East Hartford, 8/14/2010
Visit 185. Old Lighthouse Museum, Stonington, 9/3/2010
Visit 186. Nathaniel B. Palmer House, Stonington, 9/3/2010
Visit 187. Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, 9/11/2010
Visit 188. 4-H Center at Auer Farm, Bloomfield, 8/8/2009
Visit 189. Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, 9/25/2010
Visit 190. Ashbel Woodward House Museum, Franklin, 10/2/2010
Visit 191. Blue Slope Country Museum, Franklin, 10/2/2010
Visit 192. Berlin Historical Museum at the Berlin Fair, Berlin, 10/3/2010
Visit 193. Berlin Agricultural Lions Museum at the Berlin Fair, Berlin, 10/3/2010
Visit 194. Tremaine Gallery at the Hotchkiss School, Salisbury, 10/9/2010
Visit 195. Salisbury Association at the Academy, Salisbury, 10/9/2010
Visit 196. Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery at MCCC, Manchester, 11/20/2010
Visit 197. Photosynthesis Gallery, Manchester, 11/20/2010
Visit 198. The Governor’s Mansion, Hartford, 12/4/2010
Visit 199. The Abbey of Regina Laudis Crèche, Bethlehem, 12/4/2010
Visit 200. Connecticut Historical Society Museum, Hartford, 1/21/2011

200th Museum Celebration!

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Visit 201. The Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, Middletown, 4/23/2011
Visit 202. Vernon Depot Railroad Yard Outdoor Museum, Vernon, 5/1/2011
Visit 203. New England Muscle Bicycle Museum, Bloomfield, 5/7/2011
Visit 204. Col. C.S. Wadsworth Living Museum/Rockfall Foundation, Middletown, 5/18/2011
Visit 205. Joe Webb Peoples Museum, Middletown, 5/18/2011
Visit 206. General Mansfield House Museum, Middletown, 5/18/2011
Visit 207. Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Museum, Old Saybrook, 5/18/2011
Visit 208. Fort Saybrook Monument Park Outdoor Museum, Old Saybrook, 5/18/2011
Visit 209. Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, 5/18/2011
Visit 210. Eolia (Harkness Mansion) at Harkness Park, Waterford, 5/18/2011
Visit 211. Norwich Arts Center Gallery, Norwich, 5/28/2011
Visit 212. Nathan Hale Schoolhouse, New London, 5/28/2011
Visit 213. Neil’s American Dream Museum, West Hartford, 6/1/2011
Visit 214. Rainbow Dam Fishway, Windsor, 6/4/2011
Visit 215. Glebe House Museum, Woodbury, 6/18/2011
Visit 216. Connecticut River Valley Wildlife Museum, East Hartford, 6/26/2011
Visit 217. Pleasant Valley Schoolhouse, South Windsor, 8/2/2011
Visit 218. Woodruff Farm Barn Museum, Guilford, 9/18/2011
Visit 219. Thomas Griswold House, Guilford, 9/18/2011
Visit 220. Swain Family Horse Farm Cowboy Museum, Granby, 9/25/2011
Visit 221. Silpe Gallery at UHa Art School, West Hartford, 10/4/2011
Visit 222. The Yale Medical Library & Cushing Center, New Haven, 10/14/2011
Visit 223. New Pond Farm Education Center, Redding, 10/15/2011
Visit 224. Burnham-Hibbard House, Hampton, 12/11/2011
Visit 225. PEZ Visitor’s Center, Orange, 2/18/2012
Visit 226. Sharon Audubon Center, Sharon, 2/25/2012
Visit 227. Kellogg Environmental Center, Derby, 3/24/2012
Visit 228. Ruth Callander House Museum of Portland History, Portland, 4/1/2012
Visit 229. New England Air Museum, Windsor Locks, 4/19/2012
Visit 230. Creative Arts Workshop Galleries, New Haven, 12/5/2010 & TBD
Visit 231. East Granby Historical Society Museum, East Granby, 6/9/2012
Visit 232. Keeney Schoolhouse, Manchester, 6/9/2012
Visit 233. Cheney Homestead, Manchester, 6/9/2012
Visit 234. Tarrywile Mansion, Danbury, 6/22/2012
Visit 235. Brunn Barn Museum Complex, Woodstock, 9/3/2012
Visit 236. Edith B. Nettleton Historical Room, Guilford, 9/8/2012
Visit 237. Henry Whitfield State Museum, Guilford, 9/8/2012
Visit 238. Dawnland Collection of Native American Artifacts, Guilford, 9/8/2012
Visit 239. Durham Historical Society at the Schoolhouse, Durham, 9/8/2012
Visit 240. Sculpturedale, Kent, 9/15/2012
Visit 241. Griswold Inn Marine Art, Essex, 11/4/2012
Visit 242. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 11/9/2012
Visit 243. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, 11/9/2012
Visit 244. Thomas Darling House, Woodbridge, 12/2/2012
Visit 245. Mashuntucket Pequot Museum, Ledyard, 1/5/2013
Visit 246. Hartford History Center & Artwalk, Hartford, 1/9/2013
Visit 247. Ansonia Nature Center, Ansonia, 2/2,2013
Visit 248. Finnish-American Heritage Society Museum, Canterbury, 2/16/2013
Visit 249. Fire Museum, Suffield, 3/29/2013
Visit 250. Hartford Public High School Museum and Archive, Hartford, 5/7/2013
Visit 251. Moor’s Charity School Museum, Columbia, 6/7/2013
Visit 252. Fort Stamford, Stamford, 7/25/2013
Visit 253. Mystic Arts Center, Mystic, 10/5/2013
Visit 254. Payne-Whitney Gym, New Haven, 10/12/2013
Visit 255. Gores Pavillion, New Canaan, 10/13/2013
Visit 256. Boothe Memorial Park and Museum, Stratford, 10/19/2013
Visit 257. Boothe Memorial Railway Society Museum, Stratford, 10/19/2013
Visit 258. Technocratic Cathedral/Redwoods Building, Stratford, 10/19/2013
Visit 259. iPark, East Haddam, 11/24/2013
Visit 260. Imagine Nation, Bristol, 3/8/2014
Visit 261. Twitchell-Rowland Homestead (OHS), Oxford, 3/16/2014
Visit 262. Danbury Railway Museum, Danbury, 5/24/2014
Visit 263. Military Museum of Southern New England, Danbury, 5/24/2014
Visit 264. Bush-Holley House Museum, Greenwich, 5/25/2014
Visit 265. D’Elia Tool Museum, Scotland, 5/28/2014
Visit 266. Tourtellotte Memorial Room Museum, Thompson, 5/28/2014
Visit 267. Josephine A. Dolan Collection, UConn School of Nursing, Storrs, 5/30/2014
Visit 268. Railroad Museum of New England, Thomaston, 6/1/2014
Visit 269. The Beer Can Museum, Waterbury, 6/7/2014
Visit 270. Scantic Academy Museum, East Windsor, 6/14/2014
Visit 271.Connecticut Trolley Museum, East Windsor, 6/14/2014
Visit 272. Connecticut Fire Museum, East Windsor, 6/14/2014
Visit 273. Connecticut Motor Coach Museum, East Windsor, 6/14/2014
Visit 274. Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, Hamden, 6/14/2014
Visit 275. The Dinosaur Place at Nature’s Art, Montville, 6/15/2015

4 responses to “Museum Visit Reports”

  1. Julie says:

    Hello,

    Great idea posting about this!

    I hope you’ll write about both the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum AND the New Haven Museum! I didn’t see either, but I was going quickly through the list…

  2. Terri Saulter says:

    Connecticut Radio Museum in Windsor – awesome place. I didn’t see it on the list.

  3. Susan Orred says:

    CT Historical Society–bring the guys and check out the ‘Making Connecticut’ exhibit.

  4. Jason says:

    I recommend the word ‘slangwhanger’

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