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This list of museums in Connecticut contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
2.1.2 District of Columbia. 2.1.3 Florida. ... University of Connecticut Health Center ... David Hayes Sculpture at the Wichita Falls Museum of Art; Wichita ...
University art museums and galleries are collections of art that are developed, owned, and maintained by schools, colleges, and universities. There are approximately 680 university art museums and galleries in the United States . [ 1 ]
The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university system with its main campus in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School, named after two benefactors. In 1893, the school became a public land grant college, then took its current name in 1939. Over the following ...
The Connecticut Science Center is a nine-story museum located on the Connecticut River in Hartford, Connecticut designed by César Pelli & Associates, which opened on June 12, 2009. The building measures a total of 154,000 square feet (14,300 m 2 ), including 40,000 square feet (3,700 m 2 ) of interactive exhibits consisting of videos, audios ...
The museum is named in honor of the prominent U.S. senator and university trustee William Benton. The Benton has a cafe (The Beanery) and a gift store. Admission to the museum is free for all. [1] Constructed in 1920 and used for twenty years as University's main dining hall, the Benton opened officially as an art museum in 1967.
The Historic District is located Storrs, a village of the town of Mansfield, Connecticut, flanking Storrs Road (Connecticut Route 195).The principal elements of the district are 23 masonry buildings erected between 1906 and 1942, in Collegiate Gothic, Colonial Revival, and Classical Revival styles.
Cato T. Laurencin FREng [1] KCSL SLMH [2] (born January 15, 1959) is an American engineer, physician, scientist, innovator and a University Professor of the University of Connecticut (one of twenty-nine in the history of the university). [3] He is currently the chief executive officer of The Cato T. Laurencin Institute for Regenerative Engineering.