Outdoor Concert Series: Conjunto Guajiba y Sharina “La reinita que canta”
Come enjoy a free outdoor concert of Puerto Rican folk music on the CMCH lawn. Bring a picnic or enjoy food from a food truck!
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Family Adventure Days: Magical Museums
Experience Connecticut’s magical history by learning about Albert G. Walker, a famous Connecticut magician from the late 1800s, and exploring magical items from the CMCH collection. You can then learn how to do special magic tricks and create a magic-inspired craft!
Family Adventure Days: Magical Museums
Experience Connecticut’s magical history by learning about Albert G. Walker, a famous Connecticut magician from the late 1800s, and exploring magical items from the CMCH collection. You can then learn how to do special magic tricks and create a magic-inspired craft!
Exhibit Opening Reception: Mas: Carnival Costumes from Hartford’s West Indian Community
Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT, United StatesWe invite you to join us for the Opening Reception for Mas: Carnival Costumes from Hartford’s West Indian Community.
Exhibit Opening Reception: Mas: Carnival Costumes from Hartford’s West Indian Community
Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT, United StatesWe invite you to join us for the Opening Reception for Mas: Carnival Costumes from Hartford’s West Indian Community.
Hopes and Expectations: The Origins of the Black Middle Class in Hartford
Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT, United StatesBring your lunch and learn about a fascinating 19th-century African-American Hartford family with historian Barbara J. Beeching.
Hopes and Expectations: The Origins of the Black Middle Class in Hartford
Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT, United StatesBring your lunch and learn about a fascinating 19th-century African-American Hartford family with historian Barbara J. Beeching.
Family Adventure Days: Magical Museums
Experience Connecticut’s magical history by learning about Albert G. Walker, a famous Connecticut magician from the late 1800s, and exploring magical items from the CMCH collection. You can then learn how to do special magic tricks and create a magic-inspired craft!
Family Adventure Days: Magical Museums
Experience Connecticut’s magical history by learning about Albert G. Walker, a famous Connecticut magician from the late 1800s, and exploring magical items from the CMCH collection. You can then learn how to do special magic tricks and create a magic-inspired craft!
Special Concert: Soo-Eun Kwak
CHS welcomes Soo-Eun Kwak, internationally recognized performer of the gayageum, for a special Connecticut performance.
Special Concert: Soo-Eun Kwak
CHS welcomes Soo-Eun Kwak, internationally recognized performer of the gayageum, for a special Connecticut performance.
Family Program: Celebrate West Indian Culture
Discover the traditions behind West Indian Carnival costumes! These costumes, or Mas (short for masquerade), represent an important and beloved art form in West Indian communities. Explore our new Mas exhibit, featuring Carnival costumes made by Hartford teens. Then come meet some of the talented young people that made the costumes, and learn how to create mas and about some of the ways West Indian Carnival is celebrated!