Theater and opera houses
 Bushnell Center for the
Performing Arts in Hartford
The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts is one of
the state's most important cultural institutions. It was
built in 1930 by Dotha Bushnell Hillyer as a monument to
her father Dr. Horace Bushnell. The original theater,
Mortensen Hall, has 2,800 seats and was built in the
style of Georgian architecture. The interior has clear
influences from Art Deco. In 2001 the building was
expanded by 8,400 mē and now offers with the Maxwell M.
and Ruth R. Belding Theater a second stage with 907
seats. The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts is
the venue for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and
Connecticut Opera.
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166 Capitol Avenue
Hartford, Connecticut 06106
www.bushnell.org |
Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven
The Yale Repertory Theater in the city of New Haven is
part of Yale University and was founded in 1966. The
theater is housed in the former Calvary Baptist Church,
which was built in the Gothic Revival style in 1846. The
theater acts as an interface between professional actors
and university students.
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1120 Chapel Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06510
www.yalerep.org |
Goodspeed Opera House near East Haddam
The Goodspeed Opera House in the city of East Haddam is
a very worth seeing theater from 1876. The building is
in Victorian style and was built by banker William
Goodspeed. Over time, the theater experienced strange
uses, such as a military base and a shop. It was not
used again in its original function until 1959.
Goodspeed Opera House has been on the list of Historic
Places since 1971.
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6 Main Street
East Haddam, Connecticut 06423
www.goodspeed.org |
Museums and exhibitions
Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford
The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford City is not just any
museum, it is the oldest public art museum in the entire
United States. The museum was built on the property of
Daniel Wadsworth from 1842 to 1844. The style of the
building can be attributed to the Gothic Revival style
and its appearance is reminiscent of a castle. Today,
the museum has approximately 18,200 square feet of
exhibition space, making it the largest in Connecticut.
The museum is particularly well-known for its collection
of impressionist painting, but the areas of modern and
contemporary art also have special works. In total, the
museum's collection includes over 50,000 exhibits that
go back to ancient times and offer works from ancient
Egypt, Greece and Rome.
| Contact |
600 Main Street
Hartford, Connecticut 06103
www.thewadsworth.org |
Connecticut Science
Center in Hartford
The Connecticut Science Center is a very interesting
museum in the city of Hartford, right on the banks of
the Connecticut River. The Connecticut Science Center
was opened in 2009 and has an exhibition area of
approximately 14,300 mē. Since the museum mainly deals
with the natural sciences, it tries to address visitors
with interactive exhibitions. A special feature is the
very modern design of the building, as the Connecticut
Science Center generates most of the energy itself using
a fuel cell.
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250 Columbus Blvd
Hartford, Connecticut 06103
www.ctsciencecenter.org |
Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea
The Seaport Museum was founded in 1929 and is the
largest maritime museum in the United States. The museum
is located in the small town of Mystic and is its main
attraction. The museum's collection is famous for the
many well-preserved sailing ships. However, the museum
not only has ships, but an entire village, which gives
the feeling of a fishing village from the 19th century.
The village comprises more than 60 original buildings,
which were dismantled and meticulously rebuilt at this
point. The museum or the village should be known from
films, as it often served as a backdrop, for example in
Spielberg's Amistad.
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75 Greenmanville Avenue
Mystic, Connecticut 06355
www.mysticseaport.org |
Florence Griswold
Museum in Old Lyme
The Florence Griswold Museum in the small town of Old
Lyme was opened in 1947. The museum is housed in the
former home of Florence Griswold, dating from 1817.
During this time an artist colony lived there, mainly
Impressionists, some of whom placed their works of art
directly on the walls and doors of the building. The
museum's collection includes a total of 157 oil
paintings, 31 paper paintings and two sculptures. All
artworks have a connection to Connecticut. The Florence
Griswold Museum has been on the list of Historic Places
since 1975 and the Florence Griswold Museum has even
been a National Historic Landmark since 1993.
| Contact |
96 Lyme Street
Old Lyme, Connecticut 06371
www.flogris.org |
Leg Corner Rare Book and Manuscript Library
in New Haven
The Leg Corner Rare Book and Manuscript Library is a
special library of Yale University. The library was
founded in 1963 and is largely a gift from the leg
family. The library building was designed by Gordon
Bunshaft and is the world's largest archive building for
rare books and manuscripts. The highlight of the Beincke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library is an original
Gutenberg Bible from 1452.
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121 Wall Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511
www.beinecke.library.yale.edu |
Peabody Museum of Natural
History in New Haven
The Peabody Museum of Natural History is a natural
history museum and research facility of Yale University.
The museum was founded by George Peabody in 1866. In
1876 the museum was opened to the public. The museum's
collection is outstanding, ranging from dinosaur fossils
to ancient Egyptian exhibits to the exhibition on the
history of the Indians of North America. The buildings
of the museum are also extremely worth seeing. Those in
New Haven shouldn't miss the Peabody Museum of Natural
History.
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170 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, Connecticut 06511
www.peabody.yale.edu |
Yale University
Art Gallery in New Haven
The Yale University Art Gallery is an important
university art museum in the city of New Haven. The Yale
University Art Gallery was founded in 1832 and is the
oldest art museum in a university. Since 1953, the Yale
University Art Gallery has been located in a new main
building that breaks with the other building traditions
of the university campus. The Yale University Art
Gallery's collection includes over 185,000 works from
African art, American decorative art, American paintings
and sculptures, ancient art, pre-Columbian art, Asian
art, European art, and modern and contemporary art.
These include works by Hieronymus Bosch, Claude Monet,
Claude Lorrain and George Stubbs.
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1111 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT 06520
www.artgallery.yale.edu |
Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford
The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford City was the
former home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by
his pseudonym Mark Twain, and is now a museum that deals
with Twain's life in Hartford. Twain moved into the
house in 1874, previously he lived in Missouri, and
lived here until 1891. The house was built in 1874 and
can be attributed to the Gothic Revival style. While
Mark Twain lived here, the works Bummel durch Europa,
The Prince and the Begelknabe, The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Yankee
at the court of King Arthur, Life on the Mississippi and
The Gilded Age: A Tale were created of Today. The
building has been a National Historic Landmark since
1962.
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351 Farmington Avenue
Hartford, Connecticut 06105
www.marktwainhouse.org |
Connecticut River Museum in
Essex
The Connecticut River Museum in the city of Essex is a
museum of the region's naval history. The museum, which
has existed since 1975, is housed in a historic
warehouse from 1878. The highlight of the museum's
collection is probably the replica of the turtle. It is
the oldest submarine in the United States.
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67 Main Street
Essex, Connecticut 06426
www.ctrivermuseum.org |
Shore Line
Trolley Museum in New Haven The
Shore Line Trolley Museum in New Haven is the oldest and
largest tram museum in the United States. The museum was
founded in 1900 and nowadays offers a large collection
of historical trams. It is also possible to take trips
on the historic railways over a distance of approx. 2.4
km.
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17 River Street
East Haven, Connecticut 06512
www.shorelinetrolley.com/stm/ |
Brant Foundation
Art Study
Center in Greenwich
This museum was founded in Greenwich by
New York entrepreneur Peter Brant, one of the world's
most successful private collectors of contemporary art.
It is located in an earlier stone barn from 1902 and
shows works by Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman,
Urs Fischer, Larry Clark or Mike Kelley on an area of
around 900mē.
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941 North Street
Greenwich, Connecticut 06831
www.brantfoundation.org |
Monuments and memorials
Grove Street
Cemetery in New Haven
Grove Street Cemetery is located on the Yale University
campus in the city of New Haven. The cemetery dates back
to 1796 and Grove Street Cemetery is the oldest planned
private cemetery in the world. Today, the cemetery
covers an area of 73,000 mē and is the final resting
place of many important Yale graduates such as Lyman
Beecher, Henry W. Edwards, Charles Goodyear and Eli
Whitney. In addition to the gravestones, there are
numerous monuments in the cemetery to do justice to the
importance of historical figures.
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227 Grove Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511
www.grovestreetcemetery.org |
Soldiers and Sailors
Monument near New Haven
The Soldiers and Sailors Monument near the city of New
Haven is located on the top of East Rock (112 m) and can
also be seen from a great distance. The monument was
built in 1887 to commemorate the victims of the
Revolutionary War, the British-American War, the
Mexican-American War, and the American Civil War. The
monument is 34 m high and 87 steps lead the visitor to
the top of the tower.
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