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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

The nation's oldest public art museum (1842). World-renowned collections include Hudson River School landscapes, Old Master paintings, modernist masterpieces, Impressionist paintings, American furniture, decorative arts, cutting-edge contemporary art. Restaurant (860-728-5989);

Hartford, CT Museums


Museum of Connecticut History

Connecticut's 1662 Royal Charter, Colt collection of firearms, changing exhibits, portraits of Connecticut's governors. Permanent exhibit ?Connecticut Collections.?

Hartford, CT Museums

Ancient Burying Ground of Hartford

Final resting place of Revolutionary War soldiers and 17th-century settlers including African-Americans and Hartford's founder Thomas Hooker. Were orginally 6,000 graves, 435 markers still stand. (No grave rubbing)

Hartford, CT Historic Markers

Elizabeth Park Rose Gardens

First municipal rose garden in the country;

Hartford, CT Gardens

Things to do Museums near Hartford, CT

Menczer Museum of Medicine & Dentistry

Instruments and medications used from the 18th- to the 20th-century. Historical medical library....

Noden-Reed Park Museum

A 22-acre park with 1840 house and 1826 brick barn contain period artifacts. Site of Connecticut's first Christmas tree....

The Mark Twain House & Museum

Elaborate Victorian (1874) mansion with rare interiors by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1881) was the author's home for 17 years (18...

Phelps Tavern Museum

Period rooms and interactive exhibition galleries illustrate the use of the Captain Elisha Phelps house as an inn from 1786 t...

New Britain Museum of American Art

Over 5,000 American works of art from 1740 to the present. Works by Benton, Cassatt, Church, Cole, LeWitt, Sargent, Stuart, W...