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Florence Griswold Museum
96 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT 06371
860-434-5542 https://www.florencegriswoldmuseum.org/
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The Florence Griswold Museum is an art museum with a focus on the Old Lyme Art Colony, a center of American Impression which was located on this site. The institution is comprised of the Florence Griswold house, a National Historic Landmark; the Krieble Gallery, a modern addition; and the grounds, which include sweeping views of the Lieutenant River. The first floor of the house has been restored to reflect how it appeared around 1910, including some doors and walls painted by artists boarding there at the time. Over the years, the museum's holdings have expanded to include works by artists who lived and worked in Connecticut from the late Colonial period to the early 20th century, such as paintings by Frederick Church, Thomas Cole, Childe Hassam, and Milton Avery. A museum shop and café are on the premises.
Categories: Art, Family, History
Pass Benefits
Free admission for 2 adults and 2 children.
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
625 Williams Street, New London, CT 06320
860-443-2545 https://www.lymanallyn.org/
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The Lyman Allyn Art Museum, located in New London, Connecticut in a Federal style house built in 1829, is comprised of nine galleries, an auditorium, bookstore, research library, art studio, and conservation labs. Permanent exhibitions include “Louis Comfort Tiffany in New London,” “American Perspectives,” and “Playthings of the Past.” Changing exhibitions have focused on work from the permanent collection and by contemporary artists. The collection itself contains over 17,000 objects from ancient times to the present; artworks from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe, with particularly strong collections of American paintings, decorative arts, and Victorian toys and doll houses. Outside, a sculpture trail is surrounded by 12 acres of gardens and lawns.
Pass Benefits
Free family admission (2 adults and 2 children).
Children under 12 always free.
New Britain Museum of American Art
56 Lexington Street, New Britain, CT 06052
860-229-0257 https://www.nbmaa.org/
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True to its name, the museum is dedicated to American Art, which it delivers through a permanent collection and special exhibitions. Its holdings include works by John Singleton Copley, Thomas Cole, Gilbert Stuart, Frederick Church, Albert Bierstadt, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins, and others. Somewhat more contemporary artists in the collection include N.C. and Andrew Wyeth, Rockwell Kent, Georgia O'Keefe, Sol LeWitt, Thomas Hart Benton, Chuck Closer, Eva Hesse, and Dan Flavin. The Museum is handicapped accessible. There is a gift shop and café (with limited hours) on the premises.
Categories: Art, Family, History
Pass Benefits
Free Admission for four people.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
600 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103
860-278-2670 https://www.thewadsworth.org/
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The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, located in Hartford, Connecticut, is the oldest continually operating public art museum in the country. The museum's collections of nearly 50,000 works of art span 5,000 years and feature the Greek and Roman antiquities and European decorative arts; baroque and surrealist paintings; Hudson River School landscapes; European and American Impressionist paintings; modernist masterpieces; the Serge Lifar collection of Ballets Russes drawings and costumes; prints; American colonial furniture and decorative arts; the Samuel Colt firearms collection; costumes and textiles; African American art and artifacts; and contemporary art. A museum shop is on the premises.
Pass Benefits
Free admission for up to 2 adults and 2 children.