CT Museums Offer Free Admission to Military Families Through Labor Day

CT Museums Offers Free Admission to Military Families Through Labor Day

The following information is from the website CTVISIT.com–

More than 40 Blue Star Museums in Connecticut invite military personnel and their families to visit their museums free of charge all summer long.  Blue Star Families organizes this special collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 1,600 museums across America to offer free admission to all active duty military personnel, including active Reserve and National Guard, and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day 2012. Leadership support has been provided by MetLife Foundation through Blue Star Families.

The promotion runs from Memorial Day, May 28 through Labor Day, September 3, 2012.  The complete list of participating museums is available at www.arts.gov/bluestarmuseums.

The participating museums are:

Bristol

American Clock & Watch Museum 
The Imagine Nation Museum

Canterbury

Prudence Crandall Museum

Cheshire

Barker Character, Comic & Cartoon Museum

Coventry

Nathan Hale Homestead

Fairfield

Bellarmine Museum of Art 
Fairfield Museum and History Center

Farmington

Hill-Stead Museum 
Stanley-Whitman House

Greenwich

Bruce Museum

Groton

Avery Memorial Association

Guilford

Henry Whitfield State Museum

Hartford

Butler-McCook House & Garden 
Connecticut Historical Society 
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Kent

Eric Sloan Museum and Kent Furnace

Lebanon

CTSSAR Jonathan Trumbull War Office 
Jonathan Trumbull Jr. House Museum
Lebanon Historical Society Museum

Mashantucket

Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center

Middletown

Kidcity Children’s Museum 
Middlesex County Historical Society-General Mansfield House

Naugatuck

Naugatuck Historical Society Museum

New Britain

New Britain Museum of American Art

New Canaan

New Canaan Historical Society

New Haven

Yale Center for British Art 
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

New London

Lyman Allyn Art Museum 
New London County Historical Society – Shaw Mansion
New London Maritime Society

Norwalk

Stepping Stones Museum for Children

Norwich

Leffingwell House Museum/Society of the Founders of Norwich CT

Ridgefield

Keeler Tavern Museum

Rowayton

Rowayton Historical Society

Simsbury

Simsbury Historical Society and Phelps Tavern Museum

Southington

Barnes Museum

Stamford

Stamford Museum & Nature Center

Tolland

Old Tolland County Jail & Museum

Vernon

New England Civil War Museum

Waterbury

Mattatuck Museum 
Timexpo: The Timex Museum

Woodbury

The Old Woodbury Historical Society & Hurd House Museum

Woodstock

Historic New England Connecticut

For more information on participating museums and special events visit www.CTvisit.com.