New Haven County CT Museums

CT Museums – Hamden, Yale New Haven, Seymour, Waterbury

Yale Museums Visit the greater Yale New Haven area to see some fantastic Connecticut museums. The Yale Art Museums features works from the masters and has three floors of paintings on display. Yale’s Peabody Museum features giant dinosaurs and hundreds of other animal displays. Ask us about CT Museums or share your CT travel reviews or comments. To feature your business, contact us.

New Haven Connecticut Museums

New Haven Museum & Historical Society
114 Whitney Avenue
New Haven ,CT 06510
Ph: 203-562-4183
New Haven Museum and Historical Society offers visitors the opportunity to explore the city and region’s people, places and events from the Quinnipiac Indians to the present day.

Barker Character Comic & Cartoon Museum
1188 Highland Avenue
Cheshire, Ct. 06410
Ph: 203-699-3822
Do you remember your Roy Rogers Lunch Box, Ronald McDonald Phone, Charlie McCarthy Puppet, Flintstones Band Toy, Lone Ranger Gun or Mickey & Minnie Hand-Car? They are all here to see along with thousands of other items of comic strip, cartoon, western, T.V. and advertising memorabilia personally amassed by Herb and Gloria Barker.

Yale University Art Gallery
PO Box 208271
New Haven, CT 06520-8271
Ph: 203-432-0611
The Yale University Art Gallery’s permanent collection includes over 185,000 works, organized into ten curatorial areas. Admission is free of charge.

Thomas Griswold House Museum
PO Box 363
Guilford, CT 06437
Ph: 203-453-3176
The Thomas Griswold House Museum, which includes a circa 1774 New England saltbox house, an early blacksmith shop, a large barn filled with farm implements, two corn cribs and a Victorian three seat privy or outhouse.

The Shore Line Trolley Museum
17 River Street
East Haven, CT 06512
Ph: 203-467-6927
The Shore Line Trolley Museum has been an important part of the community since its incorporation in 1945 as the Branford Electric Railway Association. Founded to preserve the trolley car and it now boasts a collection of nearly 100 vintage vehicles as well as artifacts and documents from the trolley era.

Peabody Museum of Natural History
Yale University
PO Box 208118
New Haven, CT 06520-8118
Ph: 203-432-6646
Anthropology, Meteorites and Planetary Science, Botany, The Yale Herbarium, Mineralogy, Entomology, Paleobotany, Historical Scientific Instruments, Vertebrate Paleontology, Invertebrate Paleontology, Vertebrate Zoology, Invertebrate Zoology. The collections offer crucial keys to the history of the earth and in some cases are the only surviving traces of animals, plants and cultures that have become extinct.

Mattatuck Museum Arts & History Center
144 West Main Street
Waterbury, CT 06702
Ph: 203-753-0381
The museum’s collections and exhibits are focused on regional history and Connecticut art.The art galleries feature the work of Connecticut painters from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The Waterbury Button Museum is a permanent exhibit of approximately 10,000 buttons on display.

Hyland House
84 Boston Street
Guilford,CT 06437
The Hyland House, a museum of early colonial life and architecture, was built circa 1690-1710. Scheduled for demolition in 1916 it was purchased and restored by the Dorothy Whitfield Historic Society. It has been open to the public as a living historical environment since 1918.

Henry Whitfield State Museum
248 Old Whitfield Street
Guilford, CT 06437
Ph: 203-453-2457
Visitors tour three floors filled with 17th, 18th, and 19th century furnishings. An introductory exhibit details the house’s history and educational game sheets are offered to children.

The Eli Whitney Museum
915 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, CT 06517
Ph: 203-777-1833
The Museum celebrates the Whitney tradition of learning by experiment. The Museum designs, produces and teaches projects that engage hands, eyes and minds…projects that blend art, science and invention.

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Connecticut Museums by Region

Visit Connecticut Museums by region.

Litchfield County CT Museums
Bridgewater, Cornwall, Kent, Litchfield
Hartford County CT Museums
Hartford, New Britain, Suffield, Enfield
Tolland County CT Museums
Andover, Stafford Springs, Mansfield, Tolland, Somers, Storrs, Willington
Windham County CT Museums
Woodstock, Eastford, Plainfield, Putnam
Fairfield County CT Museums
Bridgeport, Fairfield, Norwalk, Stamford, Newtown
New Haven County CT Museums
Hamden, New Haven, Seymour, Waterbury
Middlesex County CT Museums
Cromwell, Essex, Middletown, Old Saybrook
New London County CT Museums
New London, Uncasville, Norwich, North Stonington, Mystic Village, Old Lyme