From Art Colony to Connecticut Collection: Highlights from the Florence Griswold Museum

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From Art Colony to Connecticut Collection: Highlights from the Florence Griswold Museum

To increase access to the Museum’s wonderful artworks, the Niblack Gallery in our Robert and Nancy Krieble Gallery will be dedicated to a long-term installation of selections from the permanent collection. Focused on three themes (community, Connecticut and the environment, and the creative spark), many of our most loved treasures will be on view and changed out throughout the year.

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Wee Faerie Village

September 28–November 3

Wee Faerie Village

The annual family-friendly Wee Faerie Village returns! Join us to explore Yesterville: A Wee Old Timey Town.

Over two dozen pint-sized creations along the faerie house walking trail delight visitors of all ages. Special theme dress-up days, activities, craft kits to take home, and much more.

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Mystical Murmurs: An Enchanted Environment by Adrien Broom

September 28–November 3

Mystical Murmurs: An Enchanted Environment by Adrien Broom

In this immersive exhibition contemporary artist Adrien Broom invites audiences to experience the mysterious world of the forest and imagine themselves at faerie-scale. A photographer, set designer, and filmmaker, Broom welcomes visitors to enter a darkened gallery to encounter a magical installation inspired by the natural environment, faerie folklore, and legends.

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Book a Group Visit to the Museum

Book a Group Visit to the Museum

A group visit to the Museum is a wonderful day out for all ages. School field trips, Adult and child group tours, self-guided or docent guided – we do it all!

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Upcoming Events & Programs

Upcoming Events & Programs

Explore our full roster of upcoming programming. Family-friendly events, plus lectures and educational programming for our current exhibitions.

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Play Time! Toys & Amusements from the Collection

September 28–November 3

Play Time! Toys & Amusements from the Collection

This October season of whimsy seems like an ideal time to share selected toys and amusements from the Museum’s permanent collection.

The toys exhibited attest to the continuities between historic amusements and their modern versions, sparking fond memories of childhood as well as encouraging play with the toys we have provided.

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Current and Coming

Solitary Garden

by artist jackie sumell

Solitary Garden

The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme is collaborating with the New Orleans-based artist jackie sumell to install one of her “Solitary Garden” beds on our grounds, in conjunction with the exhibition Social & Solitary: Reflections on Art, Isolation, and Renewal. The Solitary Garden project comes to life through correspondence between a volunteer and a currently incarcerated “gardener.” Their letters articulate to the Museum what kinds of flowers or plants are grown in the garden bed. Each Solitary Garden is a gesture of hope connecting an isolated person to the outside world through the restorative act of nurturing plants.

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Book Advance Wee Faerie Village Admission Tickets

Book Advance Wee Faerie Village Admission Tickets

Want to pre-book your tickets to visit the Wee Faerie Village?

Click below to book your tickets today! Wee Faerie Village is open September 28–November 3.

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Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape

November 16, 2024–February 9, 2025

Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape

"Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape" juxtaposes an Indigenous approach to the articulation of land with the American landscape paintings of Thomas Cole. The exhibition presents 19th-century paintings by Thomas Cole featuring Native figures, in context with Indigenous works of historic and cultural value, and artworks by contemporary Indigenous artists: Teresa Baker (Mandan/Hidatsa), Brandon Lazore (Onondaga, Snipe Clan), Truman T. Lowe (Ho-Chunk), Alan Michelson (Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River) and Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee).

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Friends and Neighbors

Explore Old Lyme

You won’t find a more quaint and inviting arts district than Lyme Street in Old Lyme. Spend your day engaged in the American arts as you walk from the museum to our art galleries, wander through a sculpture garden of imagination, and stop by a coffeehouse where someone just might be strumming their guitar. A renowned Jazz Club joins other inspiring music venues and performance series across town, while special events celebrating the arts happen throughout the year.

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Collections

Hartford Steam Boiler Collection

A New England Identity

Hartford Steam Boiler Collection

The paintings and sculptures in this exhibition are by artists who lived and worked in Connecticut from the late Colonial period to the early 20th century.

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The Painted Panels

In Situ

The Painted Panels

During the first summers of the Lyme art colony the artists began to paint scenes on the door panels of the boardinghouse.

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Fox Chase

Race Into the Past

Fox Chase

One of the most celebrated works of art at the Florence Griswold Museum is the frieze-like painting titled The Fox Chase (1905) created by Henry Rankin Poore.

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Museum

Campus

Krieble Gallery

Krieble Gallery

Begin your visit at the Krieble Gallery.

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Florence Griswold House

Florence Griswold House

The Late Georgian mansion was transformed from a wealthy sea captain’s home into a boardinghouse for some of the most noted names in American Impressionism.

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Gardens and Grounds

Gardens and Grounds

The Museum’s grounds invite exploration.

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History Blog

Exhibition Note: Matilda Browne’s Scrapbook

The exhibition Impressionism 150: From Paris to Connecticut and Beyond marks the anniversary of Impressionism's debut and its development from a...

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