The Barker Museum houses one of the country's largest collections of character toys & artifacts, spanning fifteen decades of American history. No matter how old or young you are, you will recognize something from your life, whether it's a cap pistol, Partridge Family...

Dedicated to collecting and preserving Cheshire's history.

The beautiful Barnes Museum serves as a reminder of Southington’s rich historic past. Step through its doors and you are transported to an era when ladies wore high-button shoes and elegant lace dresses and men donned top hats for social occasions. The Barnes also...

The Middletown Sports Hall of Fame and Museum was created to honor the numerous outstanding athletes and other sports minded individuals, and to preserve the deep and rich history of sports in the life of the City of Middletown.

Kidcity is in the 1835 Camp-Sterns House, which served as the convent for St. Sebastian's Church for the past 70 years. Although it's an old house, it's at a new site, after moving 400 feet down Washington Street in March of 1997 and spending a day stuck in the...

At the museum visitors can explore the community’s past through major exhibits, which showcase artifacts from the Historical Society’s permanent collection. Recent exhibits have examined Middletown’s 19th century women’s clothing, varied immigrant groups; the...

Our mission is to collect and preserve military memorabilia, documents and history of members of the Armed Forces of the United States of America, particularly those of citizens of Connecticut; to display such memorabilia and documents in order to educate the public...

The New Britain Museum of American Art is an art museum in New Britain, Connecticut. Founded in 1903, it is the first museum in the country dedicated to American art. A total of 72,000 visits were made to the museum in the year ending June 30, 2009, and another...

The New Britain Industrial Museum was formed to appreciate the past as well as to inspire for the future. Thousand of artifacts representative of the creativity and efforts of its people over generations have been collected. Changing exhibits of products from not...

The Stevens-Frisbie House is an Italianate-style home built in 1853-1854. It was built by John Stevens, who came to Cromwell in the 1830s and, with his brother Elisha, founded the J & E Stevens Company, which manufactured hardware and toys, including mechanical...