Historic Sites & Museums
Celebrate a rich and fascinating history around every corner. Grand landmarks combine with fine museums to preserve and interpret local and regional culture, both ancient and modern.
Regional Museums
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
American Clock & Watch Museum
Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry
Barker Character, Comic & Cartoon Museum
The Barnum Museum
Bruce Museum of Arts & Science
Connecticut Historical of Culture and History
Connecticut River Museum
Connecticut State Museum of Natural History
Florence Griswold Museum
Gaylords Brown’s Forge Museum
Henry Whitfield State Museum
Hill-Stead Museum
Housatonic Museum of Art
Keeler Tavern Museum
Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center
Museum of Connecticut History
Museum of Fife & Drummers
Mystic Seaport Museum of America and the Sea
New Britain Museum of American Art
New England Air Museum
New England Carousel Museum
Old State House & Museum
Osborne Homestead Museum
Prudence Crandall Museum
The Shore Line Trolley Museum
Stamford Museum & Nature Center
Submarine Force Museum & Nautilus
Thomas Griswold House Museum
Webb Deane Stevens Museum
William Benton Museum of Art
Windham Textile & History Museum
Natural History
Nature Museums & Centers
Ansonia Nature Center
Connecticut Audubon Birdcraft Museum
Connecticut State Museum of Natural History
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Greenhouses
Flanders Nature Center
The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk
Peabody Museum of Natural History
Roaring Brook Nature Center
Stamford Museum & Nature Center
Woodcock Nature Center
Heritage Trails
Connecticut Impressionist Art Trail
Connecticut Women’s Heritage Trail
The Freedom Trail
The Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor
Historic Sites
Bates-Scofield House
Bellamy-Ferriday House
Bush-Holley Historic Site
Butler-McCook Home & Garden
Captain’s Cove
Connecticut State Capitol
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
The Mark Twain House
Nathan Hale Homestead
New Haven Green
Noah Webster House
Ogden House
Old New-Gate Prison & Copper Mine
Thankful Arnold House
The Washington Oak
Wier Farm National Historic Site