Can you decode the hidden messages? Be a super sleuth for the day and try to deduce the meaning behind symbols used by people long ago and today. Send a secret message using the Victorian language of flowers or the modern day language of emojis! Kids can also make a Victorian flower bookmark or an emoji stress ball.
Free admission to the museum galleries all day. Please note that free admission does not include the Waterman Research Center.
Free admission to the museum galleries all day. Please note that free admission does not include the Waterman Research Center.
Come to Free First Saturday at the CMCH and experience what life was like for children in colonial times. Kids and families can participate in a series of colonial games, compete against friends in "chore races," and make their own whirligig to take home!
Come to Free First Saturday at the CMCH and experience what life was like for children in colonial times. Kids and families can participate in a series of colonial games, compete against friends in "chore races," and make their own whirligig to take home!
Museums have all kinds of strange things in their collection. Explore some of CMCH’s oddities, curiosities, and wacky wonders! See if you can identify the purpose of some of our most unusual artifacts, and make your own wacky fashion accessory out of crazy duct tape!
Museums have all kinds of strange things in their collection. Explore some of CMCH’s oddities, curiosities, and wacky wonders! See if you can identify the purpose of some of our most unusual artifacts, and make your own wacky fashion accessory out of crazy duct tape!
Museums have all kinds of strange things in their collection. Explore some of CMCH’s oddities, curiosities, and wacky wonders! See if you can identify the purpose of some of our most unusual artifacts, and make your own wacky fashion accessory out of crazy duct tape!
Museums have all kinds of strange things in their collection. Explore some of CMCH’s oddities, curiosities, and wacky wonders! See if you can identify the purpose of some of our most unusual artifacts, and make your own wacky fashion accessory out of crazy duct tape!
What was a day like for a Connecticut soldier fighting during World War I? Find out at Family Adventure Day! Search for clues about soldiers’ experiences in our exhibit Facing War: Connecticut in World War I, take a break for (pretend) “coffee” and “donuts” in the Y.M.C.A hut, and design a patch to wear or a postcard to send home.
What was a day like for a Connecticut soldier fighting during World War I? Find out at Family Adventure Day! Search for clues about soldiers’ experiences in our exhibit Facing War: Connecticut in World War I, take a break for (pretend) “coffee” and “donuts” in the Y.M.C.A hut, and design a patch to wear or a postcard to send home.
What was a day like for a Connecticut soldier fighting during World War I? Find out at Family Adventure Day! Search for clues about soldiers’ experiences in our exhibit Facing War: Connecticut in World War I, take a break for (pretend) “coffee” and “donuts” in the Y.M.C.A hut, and design a patch to wear or a postcard to send home.
