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Mystic Country CT Museums
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Mystic Country CT Museums
Mystic Country CT Museums
Below is a list of Mystic Country CT Museums. Find detailed information on the Museum entries by clicking on their links.
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You can find Connecticut tourist attractions and activities in all of Connecticut's regions: Danbury, Litchfield Hills, Mystic Country and Other.
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Hempsted Houses
One of New England's oldest and best-documented houses.
Category: New London Museum near Mystic Country, Connecticut
Description of this Mystic Country area Attraction: The 1678 Joshua Hempsted House is one of New England's oldest and best-documented dwellings. Joshua Hempsted lived here his whole life, filling many roles, including farmer, judge, gravestone carver, shipwright and father of nine children left motherless by his wife's death in 1716. The diary Hempsted kept for nearly 50 years prior to his own death in 1758, is full of sometimes meaty, sometimes mundane details of daily life in colonial Connecticut. The Hempsted House survived the 1781 burning of New London by the British, commended by traitor Benedict Arnold. Later, it may have been a safe house on the secret Underground Railroad which aided fugitive slaves seeking freedom. Adjacent to the Joshua Hampsted House is a rare stone dwelling built in 1759 by his grandson Nathaniel. Both houses' furnishings include original Hempsted family objects. A property of Connecticut Landmarks.
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Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Art Museum
Category: New London Museum near Mystic Country, Connecticut
Description of this Mystic Country area Attraction: Lyman Allyn Art Museum was established in 1926 by Harriet Upson Allyn in memory of her father, Lyman Allyn, as a place for local citizens to learn about art and culture. Housed in a handsome Neo-Classical building designed by Charles A. Platt, the permanent collection includes over 10,000 paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, furniture and decorative arts, with an emphasis on American art from the 18th through 20th centuries.
2009 Exhibitions:
Elizabeth Enders: Landscape/Language/Line
March 7 through August 23, 2009
This is the first retrospective of the work of New York artist Elizabeth Enders. Curated by Charlotta Kotik, Curator Emerita of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, this exhibition features 4 decades of Enders’s paintings and drawings from the 1970s through today. An exhibition catalogue, with essays by Museum Director Dr. Nancy Stula and Kotik, as well as an important interview with Enders by renowned art historian Irving Sandler, accompanies the exhibition.
What's the Word: Words and Symbols in Art from the Permanent Collection of Lyman Allyn Art Museum
On view throughout 2009
Many artists incorporate language into their work in ways that force us to consider its meaning in relation to the visual experience. This exhibition features works from the permanent collection of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum and explores artists’ relationships to text in their images as well as those who employ text as image.
Ajiaco: Spirituality in Contemporary Cuban Art
September 19, 2009 through February 21, 2010
Curated by Gail Gelburd, Ph.D., Professor of Art History at Eastern Connecticut State University, this exhibition explores the rich ajiaco, or stew, of the current art and artists emerging from the diverse cultures
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Mystic Seaport - The Museum of America and the Sea
The nation's leading maritime museum
Category: Mystic Museum near Mystic Country, Connecticut
Description of this Mystic Country area Attraction: Mystic Seaport attracts a variety of audiences – whether you are planning a fall foliage getaway for two or a family summer vacation. Whether you explore the Museum from the deck of a tall ship or walk through our re-created 19th century village, you will discover Mystic Seaport is the nation’s leading maritime museum.
Get out on the water (April - October) and explore the historic Mystic River. Say “Bon Voyage!” as you climb aboard Sabino, a 1908 coal-fired steamboat and National Historic Landmark. Set your own course as you Captain a rental rowboat or sailboat or relax on Necessity, a free water shuttle, as she takes your family from one end of the Museum to the other. There’s even a water taxi to take you to downtown Mystic and back.
Climb aboard historical tall ships like the Charles W. Morgan, the last wooden whaleship in the world, as well as the Joseph Conrad and the L.A. Dunton. Take a trip back into time on a horse and carriage ride or stroll through the Museum’s coastal village. Stop by our working Shipsmith, Print and Shipcarver’s Shops and see how these businesses were run in the 19th century.
Kids! Jump aboard one of our playscape boats or become a crew member by hauling on lines and singing along with chantey singers aboard the Charles W. Morgan. Visit The Art Spot, our newest interactive exhibit and create your own maritime masterpiece. Come and steer the ship at our Children’s Museum while dressed in sailors’ garb from head to toe!
Watch and learn as skilled craftsmen use historic methods to restore and preserve historic vessels at the Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. Explore an evening sky at the Museum’s Planetarium and discover the secrets of navigation. Learn to identify stars, planets and constellations as you spend time under the Planetarium’s dome.
Enjoy a variety of dining venues at Mystic Seaport. Grab coffee and a muffin at the Museum’s Bake Shop. Get something from the grill or deli at the Galley Restaurant or visit Schaefer’s Spouter Tavern (seasonal) where you will be served authentic soups, sandwiches and desserts. Sit down at Seamen’s Inne Restaurant & Pub and order traditional New England food for lunch or dinner.
Find unique gifts like deck prisms, books, photographs and other nautical gifts for family and friends in the Museum Store. Bring home a piece of contemporary marine art or a ship model from the Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport.
From ship or shore, embark on an adventure and escape into a 19th century seafaring village through the sights, sounds and tastes you can only experience at Mystic Seaport.
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Educators' Weekend at Mystic Seaport Museum
Educators and families admitted free
Category: Mystic Museum near Mystic Country, Connecticut
Description of this Mystic Country area Attraction: Educators and their families (up to four people total) are admitted free to Mystic Seaport – The Museum of America and the Sea – as part of Educators' Weekend sponsored by the Museum.
Teachers, administrators and support staff are welcome. Free admission will be granted upon presentation of a school or union ID card or a copy of school letterhead.
“Education is a core value of the Museum,” said Susan Funk, vice president for education and public programs. “We appreciate the work educators do every day. This is our way of saying thanks.”
Funk said the weekend is designed for teachers to learn more about how a field trip to Mystic Seaport can help them meet classroom goals.
“Our goal is for teachers to enjoy a day at the Museum,” she said. “While it’s a chance for them to explore and enjoy with their families, it’s also an opportunity for them to see what goes on here during a typical day and to strengthen the partnership between schools and museums.”
Mystic Seaport staff are available to answer teachers’ questions. “We aren’t going to give a typical sales pitch,” Funk said. “We’ll be providing a packet of information that outlines the type of programs we offer. Our staff will present a few of the new programs we’re debuting this spring that focus on immigration and innovation.”
Mystic Seaport offers a variety of programs designed for students. These programs support local, state and national curriculum frameworks and can be customized. Subject areas that can be included are history, social studies, language arts, science and technology, music and art.
Program delivery includes: field trips, in-class lectures, planetarium demonstrations and overnight programs aboard a Mystic Seaport vessel. Resource materials such as books, videotapes and audiotapes are available in the Museum Store.
“It’s one thing to read something out of a book, it’s another to be there,” Funk said. “Our programs are hands-on. They give students a chance to learn outside of the classroom while still maintaining the curriculum needs of the schools. Experiential learning allows students to connect to history in new and exciting ways.”
Additional programs are designed specifically for teachers. Teacher workshops can be developed, including how to use a museum as a teaching tool. Other symposiums and programs are available and offer continuing education units.
“While we know teachers enjoy bringing their classes here for field trips or having one of our staff members come to their school, it was important for us to develop programs that are geared directly to teachers,” said Funk.
Educators' Weekend is sponsored in part by .
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