New Haven County, CT Museums
Barker Character, Comic & Cartoon Museum
Over 80,000 items including toys and character collectibles from 1873 to present; Western, TV and advertising collectibles; cartoon memorabilia;
Osborne Homestead Museum
Former estate of Frances Osborne Kellogg. Elegant Colonial Revival home (1850)
Henry Whitfield State Museum
Connecticut's oldest house (1639) and New England's oldest stone house, built as a minister's home and town stronghold, Colonial Revial restorations 1903 and 1930s. 17th- to 19
Eli Whitney Museum
"Inventing Change" outlines the Whitney legacy of the site. Water Learning Lab, an outdoor learning environment, open May-Oct., weather permitting. Historic 1816
Allis-Bushnell House and Museum (c.1785)
Period rooms with exhibits of china, dolls and toys, costumes and kitchenware, working looms and spinning wheels;
Peabody Museum of Natural History (Yale University
Brontosaurus and Stegosaurus haunt the Great Hall of Dinosaurs, where Rudolph Zallinger's famous Age of Reptiles mural spans 108
New Haven Colony Historical Society
Exhibits on New Haven's cultural and industrial growth (1638 to the present)
Knights of Columbus Museum
Fine and decorate art; artifacts and archival material relating to the history, formation and activities of the Knights of Columbus from 1882
Mattatuck Museum
Exhibits chronicle the industrial history of the Naugatuck Valley as well as its social, architectural and cultural past. Period settings, decorative arts, furniture, 19th- and 20
Savin Rock Museum
Take a walk through time from the early 1900 to 1971. Memorabilia, video documenting personal memories, amusement section and ?Silver Fox," one of the original carousel horses from Guillano'
Ward-Heitmann House Museum
Oldest house in Greater New Haven, constructed between 1684-1700