Past Exhibitions

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Previous Exhibitions

Nov 7, 2024

Coffee: A Connecticut Story

Sep 14, 2024

Wide Awakes: Campaigning for Lincoln

Nov 30, 2023

We’re Game! Sports and Community

Sep 28, 2023 - 20241013

Connecticut’s Bookshelf

Aug 12, 2023 - 20231105

¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues

Nov 10, 2022 - 20230917

The Bicycle Game

Oct 16, 2022

Common Struggle, Individual Experience: An Exhibition About Mental Health Presented by Hartford HealthCare Institute of Living

Oct 6, 2022

HISTORIC TIMELINE OF CONNECTICUT’S LGBTQ COMMUNITY

Sep 29, 2022 - July 30, 2023

Journeys 旅途: Boys of the Chinese Educational Mission

May 5, 2022 - August 28, 2022

Hamilton Heroes and Villains

Apr 22, 2022 - August 28, 2022

Formative: Frederick Law Olmsted in Connecticut

Apr 16, 2022

Albert’s Odd Jobs: Making a Living in the 1800s

Dec 10, 2021

Virtual Exhibition: Connecticut Freedom Workers: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement

Oct 10, 2021

Virtual Exhibition: Common Struggle, Individual Experience: An Exhibition About Mental Health Presented by Hartford HealthCare Institute of Living

Oct 10, 2021

Virtual Exhibition: Albert’s Odd Jobs: Making a Living in the 1800s

Oct 10, 2021

Virtual Exhibition: Journeys 旅途: Boys of the Chinese Educational Mission

Oct 10, 2021

Virtual Exhibition: Historic Timeline of Connecticut’s LGBTQ Community

Oct 10, 2021

Virtual Exhibition: Connecticut’s Bookshelf

Sep 9, 2021 - Sep 16, 2021

Remembering the Lives Lost on 9/11

Nov 5, 2020

Connecticut and WWII Manufacturing

Jul 10, 2020

Virtual Exhibition: Pieces of American History: Connecticut Quilts

Jul 10, 2020

Virtual Exhibition: War, Maps, Mystery: Dutch Mapmaker Bernard Romans and the American Revolution

Jul 10, 2020

Virtual Exhibition: Making Connecticut

Jan 1, 2020

Virtual Exhibition: A Vote of Her Own: The Long Fight for Woman Suffrage

Dec 1, 2010 - 20500901

Making Connecticut

Jan 1, 2010 - 20500930

Inn & Tavern Signs of Connecticut

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Location

One Elizabeth Street
Hartford CT, 06105

860.236.5621

 

Museum Hours:

Tuesday - Saturday 10 am - 5 pm, Thursday until 8 pm
Sunday 12 pm - 5 pm

Research Center Hours:

Tuesday-Saturday 12 pm - 5 pm, Thursday until 8 pm
Always by appointment only.