River Valley, Connecticut Museums
The Living Museum of Avon
Restored 19th-century schoolhouse contains maps, photographs, implements and clothes, diorama of the Farmington Canal all relating to 1830
New Britain Youth Museum at Hungerford Park
Farm and exotic animals, wildlife, trail system, pond, weather station and gardens;
American Clock & Watch Museum
Permanent exhibit on the history of Connecticut clockmaking and the Industrial Revolution, housed in an 1801
Carousel Museum of New England
Exhibits represent the finest pieces of antique carousel art in existence. The Bristol Center for Arts and Culture features three galleries that include fine art exhibits. ?The Museum of Fire History?
Imagine Nation Children's Museum
Explore a world of wonder and imagination at this hands-on interactive museum for children age 10 and under. Education programs, camps, family events. Original 1940
Connecticut Fire Museum
Old-time fire trucks (1850-1967)
Connecticut Trolley Museum
Three-mile round trip ride on antique trolleys. Tour the Visitor'
Stanley-Whitman House
One of Hartford County's must-see heritage destinations!
Hill-Stead Museum
National Historic Landmark. Colonial Revival style house (1901) set on 150 acres with sunken garden. Collection of French Impressionist paintings, decorative arts and original furnishings.
Museum on the Green
Former Town Hall (c. 1840) displays local history, early industry, Native American artifacts, changing exhibits; genealogical and research library. Adjacent to old town cemetery (1690)
Salmon Brook Settlement
1732 Abijah Rowe House; 1790 Weed-Enders House with museum store, genealogy library; 1870 Cooley School; 1914
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 (1874-1891). 19 furnished rooms including many of Twain'
The Trash Museum
Educational facility, tours and hands-on exhibits on solid waste management and recycling, including the "Temple of Trash;"
The Connecticut Historical Society Museum
Award-winning, family-friendly, and educational exhibits, programs and events, plus a nationally significant library explore the state?
Old State House
Oldest State House in the nation. Restored 1796 National Historic Landmark. An interactive audio tour explores the historic rooms and the site. Experience the multi-media exhibit "
Menczer Museum of Medicine & Dentistry
Instruments and medications used from the 18th- to the 20
Museum of Connecticut History
Connecticut's 1662 Royal Charter, Colt collection of firearms, changing exhibits, portraits of Connecticut's governors. Permanent exhibit ?Connecticut Collections.?
Butler-McCook House & Garden & Main Street History
Hartford's oldest house, was home to four generations of Butlers and McCooks. Tours highlight the late 19th- and 20
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Her words changed the world with "Uncle Tom's Cabin," the groundbreaking anti-slavery novel (1852). Tour the Victorian Gothic home (1871), the Katharine Seymour Day House (1884)
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
The nation's oldest public art museum (1842)
Fire Museum
Located in turn-of-the-century firehouse with hand- and horse-pulled firefighting equipment, 1860 steam fire engine, 1915
Lutz Children's Museum
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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, Whistler, and Wyeth;
New Britain Youth Museum
Exhibits of Americana, different cultures, children'
Academy Hall Museum
1803 academy where sea captains learned the theory of navigation. Displays of artifacts, photographs, period rooms; changing exhibits on local and state history;
Phelps Tavern Museum
Period rooms and interactive exhibition galleries illustrate the use of the Captain Elisha Phelps house as an inn from 1786 to 1849
Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum
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Luddy/Taylor Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum
Displays of artifacts and history of "Tobacco Valley."
Vintage Radio & Communications Museum of Connecticut
History of electronic communications from telegraphs of the late 1800s to radio to television. Over 750
Noden-Reed Park Museum
A 22-acre park with 1840 house and 1826 brick barn contain period artifacts. Site of Connecticut'
New England Air Museum
Largest aviation museum in the Northeastern U.S. 80
Allegra Farm & Horse-Drawn Carriage & Sleigh Museum
Experience a working livery stable as it was in the 1800
Connecticut River Museum
Housed in an 1878
Museum of Fife & Drum
Only museum showing America on parade, from the Revolutionary War to the present. Exhibits show the development of music, uniforms, instruments, and related items from 18
Kidcity Children's Museum
Whimsical, one-of-a-kind rooms filled with hands-on play and learning, for kids ages 1 to 8
Strong-Porter House Museum
Farmhouse (c.1730) built by Aaron Strong, maternal great-uncle of Nathan Hale. Carpenter'
Northeast States Civilian Conservation Corps Museum
Housed in original (c.1935)
Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry
Collection of over 2,000
Mansfield Historical Society Museum
Collection of furnishings, costumes, photographs and historical artifacts relating to local history, housed in the former town office building and Old Town Hall (1843)
William Benton Museum of Art
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Tolland Historical Society
1856 Old Tolland County Jail Museum, a stone and iron stronghold with 32 original cells, in use until 1968. 1892 Warden'