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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.
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.
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 ...
A marketing pioneer, Hale shipped peaches to markets all over the country. The orchard that started with 1-acre (4,000 m 2) in 1866 grew to more than 1,200 acres (5 km 2) by 1900. Hale never went beyond grade school, but he initiated the founding of Storrs Agricultural College, now the University of Connecticut. He helped to organize the ...
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 Jacobson Barn occupies a prominent position at the northern end of the University of Connecticut campus, at the northeast corner of Horsebarn Hill Road and Connecticut Route 195. It measures 62 by 42 feet (19 m × 13 m), and is covered by a gabled roof with the long axis in an east-west orientation and a ventilating cupola at its center.
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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.