Barnes Museum
Southington’s Barnes Museum is a historic house museum and center for the study of 19th-century material culture and the decorative arts whose mission is to preserve and promote the Bradley/Barnes Homestead, its unique collections and archives, and its gardens and grounds in ways that educate and engage current and future generations.
Children's Museum and Roaring Brook Nature Center
The Children’s Museum’s mission is to provoke lifelong experiential learning and innovation among children, adults, and their communities by offering hands-on fun with science and nature for younger children and their caregivers.
Nearby Roaring Brook Nature Center in Canton offers animal and environmental exhibits, nature programs, birthday parties, scout activities, concerts, hiking, bird...
Connecticut Trolley Museum
The Connecticut Trolley Museum has over 70 pieces of rail equipment dating back to 1869. During your visit, you can see historic passenger and freight trolley cars, interurban cars, elevated railway cars, passenger and freight railroad cars, service cars, locomotives, and a variety of other equipment from railways around Connecticut. You will also find examples from Brooklyn, Boston, New Orleans,...
Connecticut's Old State House
At Connecticut’s Old State House, you’ll find historic rooms and exhibits for people of all ages to explore. Each room has been beautifully and authentically restored. During your tour, you will walk through the chambers and halls where Connecticut history was made.
CT State Parks and Forests
Whether you are looking for a rigorous outdoor activity, a leisurely stroll or a peek into history, Connecticut’s parks and forests have something to offer you year round. With 142 state parks and forests statewide, you’re sure to find one close to home or just a short trip away.
This is a physical pass which must be checked out from and returned to the Douglas Library of Hebron.
Florence Griswold Museum
Situated along the picturesque Lieutenant River in Old Lyme, Connecticut, the Florence Griswold Museum embodies the artistic spirit of its legacy as the home of the Lyme Art Colony. From the impressive Georgian architecture of the home of namesake Florence Griswold, to the light-filled and modern spaces of the Krieble Gallery, to the rolling landscape of our 12-acre site, the Florence Griswold is...
Little Theatre of Manchester
The Little Theatre of Manchester is located in Cheney Hall, Connecticut's oldest operating community theatre. The theatre presents five mainstage shows each year, ranging from classic plays to popular musicals, as well as the "Evenings at Seven" staged reading series, the Jukebox Concert Series, and special events and performances throughout the year.
Lutz Children's Museum
Every corner of the Lutz is filled with exciting discoveries waiting to be made. From hands-on exhibits to interactive play areas, our museum is designed to spark curiosity, ignite imagination, and create lasting memories. Come explore, learn, and grow with us!
Every visit to the Lutz Children's Museum is a fun-filled journey of discovery and hands-on learning.
Most exhibits and activities...
Mark Twain House
The Mark Twain House & Museum has restored the author’s Hartford, Connecticut, home, where the author and his family lived from 1874 to 1891. Twain wrote his most important works during the years he lived there, including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. In addition to providing tours of Twain’s restored home, a...
Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center
Tribally owned and operated since it opened on Aug. 11, 1998, the Museum brings to life the story of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. It serves as a major resource on the histories and cultures of Native Americans in the northeast and on the region’s rich natural history.
The Museum is a 308,000-square-foot complex, consisting of permanent exhibits, the Mashantucket Gallery (a gallery...
Mystic Seaport
Mystic Seaport Museum is the nation’s leading maritime museum. Founded in 1929 to gather and preserve the rapidly disappearing artifacts of America’s seafaring past, the Museum has grown to become a national center for research and education with the mission to “inspire an enduring connection to the American maritime experience.”
The Mystic Seaport Museum grounds cover 19 acres on the Mystic...
Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame
Located in Springfield, Massachusetts, the city where basketball was born, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is an independent non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting, preserving and celebrating the game of basketball at every level – men and women, amateur and professional players, coaches and contributors, both domestically and internationally. The Hall of Fame...
New Britain Museum of American Art
The NBMAA collection represents over three centuries of the major artists and movements of American art. Today it contains over 8,400 paintings, works on paper, sculptures, videos, and photographs.
The museum's founding in 1903 entitles the institution to be designated the first museum of strictly American art in the country. With particular strengths in colonial portraiture, the Hudson River...
New England Air Museum
The New England Air Museum is committed to presenting the story of flight and the human genius that made it possible.
Standard admission allows visitors to see all exhibits and aircraft within our three main hangars. Other add-ons, such as the Redbird Simulator, are available at an extra charge.
Old Sturbridge Village
Old Sturbridge Village, the largest outdoor history museum in the Northeast, depicts a rural New England town of the early 19th century. The Village is designed to approximate the look and feel of a historic landscape and includes more than 40 historic buildings, such as houses, working farms, meetinghouses, a district school, country store, water-powered mills, professional and trade shops – all...
Salem Witch Museum
The Salem Witch Museum examines one of the most enduring and emotional events in American History, the Salem witch trials of 1692. The museum consists of two presentations. The first provides an immersive look into the events of 1692. Visitors experience the drama of that dark time though thirteen life-size stage sets, figures, lighting and narration as they are witness to the web of lies and...
Springfield Museums
Located in the heart of downtown Springfield, Massachusetts, the Springfield Museums offer access to five world-class museums, including the Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum and the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden, all under a single admission.
Wadsworth Atheneum
The Wadsworth is your place to connect with amazing art. You will find us in the heart of Hartford, CT with our castle doors open.
Founded in 1842 with a vision for infusing art into the American experience, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art is home to a collection of nearly 50,000 works of art, spanning 5,000 years and encompassing European art from antiquity to contemporary as well as...
Wickham Park
Wickham Park is a non-profit, private foundation whose property extends into both Manchester and East Hartford, Connecticut. The park contains 280 acres of gardens, open fields, woodlands, ponds, picnic areas, sports facilities, and is the proud host of weddings, receptions, fundraising walks, disc golf tournaments, tree tours, garden tours, car shows, cross country races, family and friend...