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The Fairfield Museum and History Center is a museum and research library located at 370 Beach Road in Fairfield, Connecticut. [1] Established in 2007 by the 103 year old Fairfield Historical Society, the Fairfield Museum. The Fairfield Museum's goal is to promote civic engagement by celebrating the diverse history of its region and its people. [2]
Fairfield: Local history: Operated by the Westport Historical Society, Victorian period house with changing exhibits of local history and art, also Museum of Westport History White Memorial Conservation Center: Litchfield: Litchfield: Natural history: Natural history museum, trails Widener Gallery at the Austin Arts Center: Hartford: Hartford: Art
Presently, the house serves as a museum for the Fairfield Historical Society, [3] which also operates the Fairfield Museum and History Center. At one time the Ogden House was owned by art and antiques dealer Mary Allis , who turned it into a showcase for eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American folk paintings and furniture.
Pages in category "Museums in Fairfield County, Connecticut" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Fairfield Historic District encompasses the historic town center of Fairfield, Connecticut, roughly along Old Post Road between U.S. Route 1 and Turney Road. The area contains Fairfield's town hall, public library, and houses dating from the late 18th century, and includes portions of the town's earliest colonial settlement area.
Fairfield Museum and History Center – displays on local history, art and decorative arts, and a library on local history; Gallery of Contemporary Art at Sacred Heart University – holds five exhibitions each year; Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts at Fairfield University
Osborn (r.) and Barnum Brown at Como-Bluff during the American Museum of Natural History expedition of 1897 with limb bone of Diplodocus specimen AMNH 223. In 1891, Osborn was hired by Columbia University as a professor of zoology; simultaneously, he accepted a position at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, where he served as the curator of a newly formed Department of ...
Most of these structures were built in 1914, although the museum and bungalow have both been enlarged (substantially in the case of the museum) since then. [3] The Birdcraft Museum and Sanctuary was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993. Its establishment marked the ...