Connecticut - Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum We currently have a mid 19th century station, a restored New Haven section house, and several pieces of rolling stock. Rolling stock includes a Central Vermont wooden braced box car, New Haven copper clad coach, and a turn of the century New Haven baggage car. The site is located on what was known as Columbia Junction. We are currently restoring the existing turntable and roundhouse. The Museum is being built by the Connecticut Eastern Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society.
Connecticut - Danbury Railway Museum The Danbury Railway Museum is a non-profit organization staffed solely by volunteers. The Museum, located in the historic station and rail yard in downtown Danbury, Connecticut, offers railroad history, rail excursion trips, a collection of original and restored rolling stock, and opportunities for hands-on railroad work at "12 inches to the foot" scale.
Connecticut - The Shore Line Trolley Museum The oldest operating trolley museum in the United States. The museum was incorporated in 1945 as the Branford Electric Railway Association, a non-profit historical and educational institution. Founded to preserve the unique heritage of an endangered species -- the trolley car -- it now boasts a collection of nearly 100 vintage vehicles as well as artifacts and documents from the trolley era. A visit to the museum is a multi-sensory voyage into the past, from the moanful growl of the motors, to the smell of the electric arc, to the feel of rattan seats and varnished hardwood detailing. A 3 mile round trip aboard a fully-restored vintage trolley car, over the original tracks of a scenic country trolley line that has been in continuous operation since July 31, 1900, is complemented by a guided tour highlighting the museum's extensive collection of vintage vehicles.
Discovery Museum - Connecticut The Discovery Museum provides a see, touch, hear hands on experience in Bridgeport, Connecticut right off the Merritt Parkway. Hands on galleries, daily planetarium shows, Challenger Learning Center and other special events.
Mattatuck Museum - Connecticut The Mattatuck Museum, located on the Green in downtown Waterbury, is a treasure house of collections focusing on over three centuries of the heritage of the region and the master artists of Connecticut. The museum houses a 300-seat performing arts center, an art studio classroom, and a research library. An acclaimed cafe, coffee bar, and store offer services to visitors Monday through Saturday, year round.
Museum of Political Life - Connecticut The museum of American Political Life explores the history of American politics and presidential campaigns. Serving the academic community and a wide audience with permanent and temporary exhibits, public lectures, outreach programs, and special tours, the Museum is designed to evoke interest and participation in the spirit of our political process.
Mystic Seaport Museum- Connecticut Something is always cooking at Mystic Seaport. Amistad Web Camera: Over 10,000 people were on hand to witness the Launch of the Freedom Schooner Amistad on March 25th. Click here to see her afloat, and to watch the final phase of her construction. Brilliant 2000 voyage Sign on for the voyage of a lifetime aboard one of the nation's most renowned sail training vessels - Mystic Seaport's own schooner Brilliant. Apply today for part or all of Brilliant's millenium transatlantic voyage! Advanced Search Mystic Seaport is our country's leading maritime museum and champion of the American maritime experience that connects us all. Take part in all three Mystic Seaport adventures - the bustling 19th-century village of tall ships and historic buildings, exhibit galleries brimming with the culture.
Somers Mountain Museum Located in Somers, Connecticut A Center for Southern New England in the study of our Past, not out of mindless curiousity, yet true regard for the possibility that our Ancestors may have had Wisdom Forgotten but soon best Relearned.
The Museum of Fife and Drum - Connecticut The Museum of Fife & Drum is home to one the most unique collections of artifacts in the world; it is a visual and musical history of America on parade, from the Revolutionary War to the present. Theme displays feature drums, fifes, military swords, music, uniforms, medals, awards and photographs.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum Welcome to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, located in Hartford, Connecticut. Let us guide you through our renowned collections of American and European paintings, sculpture and decorative arts.
Yale Center for British Art - Connecticut The YCBA holds one of the most comprehensive collections of British Art outside of London. The Center places special emphasis on art from the 17th Century to the present.
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History - Connecticut Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History has Over 11 million specimens/objects from the curatorial disciplines of Anthropology, Botany, Vertebrate Paleontology, Vertebrate Zoology, Paleobotany, Entomology, Invertebrate Zoology, Invertebrate Paleontology, Mineralogy, Historical Scientific Instruments, Meteorites.
