Storrs · Tolland County
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry
Puppetry is treated as a visual and performing art at the Ballard Institute.
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Greenwich · Fairfield County
Bruce Museum
Art and science share a home in Greenwich.
Open the guideHartford · Hartford County
Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
Objects, documents and personal stories bring Connecticut’s history into view.
Open the guideEssex · Middlesex County
Connecticut River Museum
An old waterfront warehouse holds stories of the Connecticut River.
Open the guideEast Windsor · Hartford County
Connecticut Trolley Museum
Electric railway history becomes a moving experience in East Windsor.
Open the guideHamden · New Haven County
Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop
Making and experimentation are central to this Hamden workshop and museum.
Open the guideOld Lyme · New London County
Florence Griswold Museum
An artists’ boardinghouse became the heart of the Lyme Art Colony.
Open the guideFarmington · Hartford County
Hill-Stead Museum
Impressionist paintings remain in the domestic setting assembled by the Pope family.
Open the guideWashington · Litchfield County
Institute for American Indian Studies
Indigenous history and culture are explored through exhibitions and educational programs in Washington.
Open the guideNew London · New London County
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Art collections and changing exhibitions create a cultural stop in New London.
Open the guideMashantucket · New London County
Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center
Pequot history is told through exhibitions, research and cultural interpretation in Mashantucket.
Open the guideWaterbury · New Haven County
Mattatuck Museum
Art and regional history meet in downtown Waterbury.
Open the guideMystic · New London County
Mystic Seaport Museum
Ships, waterfront buildings and museum galleries tell different parts of a maritime story in Mystic.
Open the guideNew Britain · Hartford County
New Britain Museum of American Art
American art provides the through-line at this New Britain museum.
Open the guideWindsor Locks · Hartford County
New England Air Museum
Aircraft and aviation stories fill hangars near Bradley International Airport.
Open the guideNew Haven · New Haven County
New Haven Museum
New Haven’s history becomes more legible through the objects and stories gathered here.
Open the guideNorwich · New London County
Slater Memorial Museum
Plaster casts of major sculptures make art history tangible in Norwich.
Open the guideRidgefield · Fairfield County
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Contemporary art gives this Ridgefield museum an ever-changing character.
Open the guideHartford · Hartford County
The Mark Twain House & Museum
A richly detailed Hartford home puts Samuel Clemens’s family life and writing into a physical setting.
Open the guideEast Haven · New Haven County
The Shore Line Trolley Museum
A preserved shoreline trolley route connects transport history with the marsh landscape near East Haven.
Open the guideHartford · Hartford County
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
A castle-like museum building opens onto a broad history of art in downtown Hartford.
Open the guideStorrs · Tolland County
William Benton Museum of Art
The University of Connecticut’s art museum adds a gallery stop to a visit to Storrs.
Open the guideNew Haven · New Haven County
Yale Center for British Art
British art and the architecture of Louis Kahn meet across from the Yale University Art Gallery.
Open the guideNew Haven · New Haven County
Yale Peabody Museum
Natural history becomes a way to see New Haven on a much longer timeline.
Open the guideNew Haven · New Haven County
Yale University Art Gallery
Art from different cultures and periods fills a connected group of buildings on Chapel Street.
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