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Use the color-coded map to select museums within a region, or click on Art Type to search by art category.  For more information on a museum, including contact information, google map, hours of operation, admission fees and a link to the museum's website, click on the highlighted name of the museum. 
 
For travel information, click on the highlighted name of a museum, then scroll down the side bar which displays museums, recommended lodging, dining and area attractions near the highlighted museum.  For each recommendation, we display distance in miles from the museum.  Click on the property name for address, contact information, brief description and website link.  Whether you plan a day trip or overnight getaway, we hope you find this information helpful.  Lodging properties with a (P) indicate they offer a Lodging Package.  Please visit our Package page for details.
 
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Museums are open daily except Mondays* and major holidays
*Except for Center for Contemporary Printmaking, which is open daily except Sundays
 
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Fairfield County
Bruce Museum - Greenwich, CT
Gateway to Fairfield County offering over twelve changing exhibitions of fine art, photography, ethnology and natural science in park setting near Long Island Sound.
Bush-Holley Historic Site - Cos Cob/Greenwich, CT
Harbor-side site of Connecticut's first Impressionist art colony and Bush-Holley historic home. Center for learning and enjoyment.
Weir Farm Art Center and Weir Farm National Historic Site - Wilton, CT

Weir Farm Art Center is  Connecticut’s only National Park and the only national park dedicated to American painting. The Site straddles the towns of Ridgefield and Wilton in Fairfield County, approximately ten minutes from The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield and 60 miles from New York City.

 

The Weir Farm Art Center was founded in 1989 by grassroots preservationists who succeeded in protecting the former home, studio and farm of American artist J. Alden Weir (1852-1919) from real estate development. Located at the Weir Farm National Historic Site, the Weir Farm Art Center presents educational programs that sustain and promote the legacy of J. Alden Weir, including exhibitions, lectures, children’s art classes and the Artist in Residence program. In 2005, ownership of the 110 acre Weir Preserve was transferred to the Weir Farm Art Center by the Connecticut Chapter of the Nature Conservancy.   

 

Center for Contemporary Printmaking - Norwalk, CT
A multimedia studio and gallery located in central Norwalk near South  Norwalk, dedicated to the art of the print, including traditional and innovative printmaking, papermaking, book arts, digital processes and related disciplines.  CCP is the only printmaking facility of its kind between NYC and Boston.  It is housed in an historic landmark nineteenth-century carriage house in Mathews Park, near the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion and the Stepping Stones Museum for Children. 

Greater New Haven
Yale Center for British Art - New Haven, CT
Presented to the university by Paul Mellon (Class of 1929)‚ the Yale Center for British Art houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom, exhibited in a striking building designed by American architect Louis I. Kahn. The collection of paintings‚ sculpture‚ drawings‚ prints‚ rare books‚ and manuscripts reflects the development of British art‚ life‚ and thought from the Elizabethan period onward. The Center offers a year-round schedule of exhibitions and educational programs‚ including films‚ concerts‚ lectures‚ tours‚ and special events. The Yale University Art Gallery, also designed by architect Louis Kahn, is located across the street.
Yale University Art Gallery - New Haven, CT
The Yale University Art Gallery is a fine-arts museum for the community, presenting works of art from ancient times to the present day -- and open year-round free of charge. One of the oldest college art museums in the world, the Gallery was founded in 1832 when artist-patriot John Trumbull gave over one hundred of his paintings to Yale College. Trumbull’s original paintings of the American Revolution are now joined by a collection of objects from around the world. Permanent-collection galleries showcase artworks from twentieth-century Africa, portraits from ancient Greece, Chinese paintings from the Tang dynasty, Renaissance drawings, modernist sculpture and masterworks of American painting and decorative arts, to name a few. The Gallery’s main building, designed by American architect Louis Kahn, is a masterpiece of modern architecture and design. It has recently undergone a comprehensive renovation, which marks the beginning of a complete renovation of all three of the Gallery’s buildings, increasing both exhibition space and teaching facilities. The Gallery is located across Chapel Street from the Yale Center for British Art, designed by Kahn in 1974, and the last of his buildings on which construction was begun during his lifetime.

Litchfield Hills
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum - Ridgefield, CT
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is renowned as a national leader for its pre­sentation of outstanding new art, cultivation of emerging artists, and innovation in museum education.   Bordering Fairfield County, the Museum is ten minutes from The Weir Farm National Historic Site and Weir Farm Art Center in Wilton.
Mattatuck Museum Arts and History Center - Waterbury, CT
A treasure house of collections focusing on over three centries of the heritage of the Waterbury region and the master artists of Connecticut.

Mystic Country
Florence Griswold Museum - Old Lyme, CT
Home of American Impressionism with one of the foremost collections of Impressionism in America.  Riverfront gallery includes major works by Childe Hassam, John Henry Twachtman and Willard Metcalf.  Recently renovated boarding house surrounded by landscaped gardens was once home of the Lyme Art Colony, where noted names in American Impressionism created some of their best works.
Lyman Allyn Art Museum - New London, CT
The Lyman Allyn Art Museum’s collection is the most significant art collection in Southeastern Connecticut . It is the only museum in the area to offer a comprehensive collection of European art as well as American fine and decorative art. The permanent collection is comprised of approximately 10,000 objects, a key strength of which is the collection of European works on paper.
The Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich Free Academy Campus - Norwich, CT
The collection includes American fine and decorative art representing 350 years of Norwich history and 17th-20th century European paintings and decorative arts; African and Oceanic sculpture; Native American objects and a plaster cast collection of Egyptian, Archaic, Greek, Roman and Renaissance sculpture.
The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut - Mansfield/Storrs, CT
Art from the fifteenth to twenty-first century including works by Albrecht Durer, Maurice Prendergast, Reginald Marsh and Kathe Kollwitz.

River Valley
Hill-Stead Museum - Farmington, CT
Hill-Stead is noted for its 1901 33,000-square-foot house filled with art and antiques. Pioneering female architect Theodate Pope Riddle designed the Colonial Revival-style house, set on 152 hilltop acres, to showcase the Impressionist masterpieces amassed by her father, Cleveland iron industrialist Alfred A. Pope. Collections in 19 intact rooms include original furnishings, paintings by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, James M. Whistler and Mary Cassatt, as well as numerous works on paper and Japanese woodblock prints. Stately trees, seasonal gardens, over three miles of stone walls and woodland trails accent the grounds. A centerpiece of the property is the c. 1920 sunken garden designed by landscape architect Beatrix Jones Farrand, today the site of the acclaimed summerlong Sunken Garden Poetry and Music Festival.
 
 
New Britain Museum of American Art - New Britain, CT
Presenting one of the finest collections of American paintings and sculpture in New England, from the eighteenth century to present. New Chase Family Building overlooking the Frederick Law Olmsted-designed Walnut Hill Park showcases a collection of 5,000 works of American art.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art - Hartford, CT
The sheer quality and range of fine and decorative arts place the Wadsworth Atheneum among the dozen greatest art museums in the United States.  Famous for the world's greatest collection of Hudson River school paintings, rare Colt firearms, and the Wallace Nutting Collection of Early American Furniture, the museum's renowned collections also include Old Master paintings, modernist masterpieces, 19th century French and Impressionist paintings, Meissen and Sevres porcelains, costumes and textiles, American furniture and decorative arts, and the vanguard of contemporary art. Visit the Package page on the Art Trail's website for our "Escape! Cultural Package" with the Hartford Marriott Downtown, or call the hotel at 860-249-8000 and request promotional code EON.
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