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Connecticut Historical Museums

Connecticut Humanities Council Museum Guide

Does your Connecticut historical museum have a web page that is not listed here? Has the address to your historical museum's web page changed? Please send us an e-mail, CSL.isref@ct.gov, or call the History & Genealogy Unit, (860) 757-6580, if you would like us to update the information.

Connecticut Historical Museums on the Web

Amistad America (New Haven)

American Clock and Watch Museum (Bristol)

Antiquarian and Landmarks Society (Hartford)

Barnum Museum (Bridgeport)

Brookfield Museum and Historical Society

Bruce Museum of Arts and Sciences (Greenwich)

Canton Historical Museum

Connecticut Historical Society Museum & Library (Hartford)

Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum (Willimantic)

Connecticut River Museum (Essex)

Connecticut State Capitol (Hartford)

Connecticut Trolley Museum (East Windsor)

Cornwall Historical Museum

Danbury Museum & Historical Society

Essex Steam Train and Riverboat

Fairfield Museum and History Center

Florence Griswold Museum (Lyme)

Gay-Hoyt House (Sharon)

Glebe House Museum (Woodbury)

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center (Hartford)

Henry Whitfield State Museum (Guilford)

Hillstead Museum (Farmington)

Institute for American Indian Studies (Washington)

Jonathan Trumbull Jr. House Museum (Lebanon)

Keeler Tavern Museum (Ridgefield)

King House Museum (Suffield)

Leffingwell House Museum (Norwich)

Litchfield History Museum

Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum (Norwalk)

Lyman Allyn Art Museum (New London)

Mark Twain House (Hartford)

Museum of Connecticut History (Hartford)

Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center (Ledyard)

Mattatuck Museum Arts and History Center (Waterbury)

Museum of Fife and Drum (Ivoryton)

Mystic Seaport Museum

National Helicopter Museum (Stratford)

New Britain Museum of American Art

New Haven Museum and Historical Society

New England Air Museum (Windsor Locks)

New England Carousel Museum (Bristol)

Noah Webster House (West Hartford)

Northrop House Museum (Sherman)

Old State House (Hartford)

Peabody Museum of Natural History (New Haven)

Phelps Tavern Museum (Simsbury)

Roseland Cottage, Bowen House (Woodstock)

Shoreline Trolley Museum (East Haven)

Submarine Force Museum (Groton)

Tapping Reeve House and Law School (Litchfield)

US Coast Guard Academy Museum (New London)

Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford)

Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum (Wethersfield)

Weir Farm National Historic Site (Wilton)

Yale Center For British Art (New Haven)

Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven)  

Compiled by the History and Genealogy Unit, Connecticut State Library, updated February 2011