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Eco-Holiday House at the Osborne Homestead Museum
Osborne Homestead Museum and Kellogg Estate gardens 500 Hawthorne Avenue, DerbyExplore the world’s biomes at Eco-Holiday at Osborne Homestead Museum. Decorators transform recyclable and throwaway materials into masterpieces representing eight biomes ranging from rain forest to desert. Learn about each biome’s uniqueness, the threats to their existence, and how to protect them. The holiday tours will run from November 29 through December 21, 2024, Thursdays […]
All Ages Discovery Tour at The Aldrich Museum
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum 258 Main Street, RidgefieldRegistration encouraged Have you ever looked at contemporary art and wished you knew what it meant? Have you ever entered a museum without knowing where to start? If you answered yes, this free, interactive, and judgment-free tour of our current exhibitions guided by a Museum Educator is perfect for you! For more information
Spirits After Dark Tour at the Stowe Center
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 77 Forest Street, HartfordSpirits at Stowe will continue from November through January, offered on the first Friday and third Saturday of each month. Our tours and lectures are unique, in that they delve into the historic, social, and political context of the 19th century and explore the role of spiritualism in the lives of reformers, suffragists, and Black activists. […]
Mystic Moonlit Graveyard Ghost Tour
There’s nothing more intimately haunting than a colonial burial ground and Mystic boasts some of the most fascinating and haunted burial grounds around. This burial ground established in the 1660’s was one of the common burial places of Mystic until the rural landscape movement arrived to Mystic in 1854. Our Graveyard Tour tells tales of […]
Les Fleurs: A Curated Tour with Sandra Sigman: Parisian Experience Tour 2025
April 4-8, 2025 Sandra Sigman has designed French-inspired florals for hundreds of weddings and events at Les Fleurs, the French-style floral, home, and garden shop she opened in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1989. Une Histoire d’Amour Sandra vividly remembers falling in love with the historic city of Paris during her early twenties. The beautiful architecture, delectable […]
Yale American Furniture Study Center Highlights Tour
Collection Studies Center at Yale West Campus 900 West Campus Drive, West HavenJoin us on the first Friday of the month for a one-hour, in-person tour of the Leslie P. and George H. Hume American Furniture Study Center at the Collection Studies Center, Yale West Campus. See more than 1,300 examples of American furniture and clocks from the 17th century to the present in this facility, which […]
Tours to climb Harbor Lighthouse with the Custom House Maritime Museum in New London
Pequot Lighthouse Pequot Avenue, New LondonWeekends New London Maritime Society offers tours for up-to five people to visit inside the lighthouse. Take the tour and climb 116 steps to the lantern room, all the while learning about the 264-year history of Harbor Light, one of the oldest lighthouses in the country and the tallest on Long Island Sound. We can't […]
Take a Tour of Connecticut’s beautiful State Capitol building
Connecticut State Capitol 210 Capitol Ave., HartfordCapitol Information and Tours at the Connecticut State Capitol is operated by the League of Women Voters of Connecticut Education Fund and sponsored by the Joint Committee on Legislative Management, Connecticut General Assembly. General tourist information centers are located outside room 101 in the State Capitol and on the first floor, west entrance in the […]
Docent Tour: Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann at Fairfield University Art Museum
Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, FairfieldJoin us at 1 p.m. for a docent-led tour of the exhibition Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann. Austrian-born Trude Fleischmann (1895-1990) was one of the most accomplished female photographers of the 20th century. After great success in Vienna in the 20s photographing artists, models, and performers, she fled the Anschluss in […]
Spring Soirèe: A Festive Celebration at ‘The Boulders,’ a Historic Ridgefield Home
The Boulders Off Rockwell Road, RidgefieldSOIRÉE Hats Off to Spring! Saturday, June 7, 2025, 7:00pm – 10:00pm. Soirèe Tickets are $200. Please join us on Garden Tour Eve at a private home in Ridgefield for a wondrous and celebratory garden soirée, Hats Off to Spring! This festive and lively event will feature sumptuous hors d’oeuvres, music, cocktails, and plenty of […]
2025 Ridgefield Garden Tour – Beyond the Garden Gate
Ridgefield TBA with RegistrationStep inside seven stunning private gardens, along with the historic Ballard Gardens, for an exclusive experience celebrating the beauty of Ridgefield! But that’s not all – kick off the weekend in style at Hats Off to Spring, our fabulous soiree, on Saturday, June 7 featuring small bites, cocktails and dancing. We are thrilled to have Todd Forrest, Arthur […]
Lee Link Garden Open House in Litchfield
Garden of Lee Link Litchfield County, SharonThree stone walls climb up a hillside, at the top of which is a greenhouse containing a wide spectrum of succulents and tropical plants. Within the last few years, the former perennial border was replaced with a new hardscape and three kousa, or Korean dogwoods set of by a hardscape of gravel and cobble stones. […]