Connecticut’s Art Trail Beckons Danbury Residents To Visit 21 World Class Museums

Last week, we published a story about Connecticut’s Chocolate Trail. Did you know that Connecticut is also home to an Art Trail?

Discover Connecticut’s artistic treasures along the award-winning CT Art Trail, 21 world-class museums and historic sites, ranging from bucolic farms, art studios and former artists’ boarding houses to grand and modern downtown art museum,” says CT Visit.

The Nutmeg state’s 21 museums on the Trail boast over 500,000 works of art within permanent collections and blanket 250 scenic miles.

Fill 2019 with artistic innovation and local history by taking a journey through our award-winning Art Trail. $25 Art Passport gets you admission into 21 museums and historic sites on the Trail once each within one year (a $90+ value).

• Bruce Museum
• Center for Contemporary Printmaking
• Fairfield University Art Museum
• Greenwich Historical Society/Bush-Holley Historic Site
• The Housatonic Museum of Art
• Weir Farm National Historic Site
• Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University
• Yale Center for British Art
• Yale University Art Gallery
• Mattatuck Museum
• Florence Griswold Museum
• Lyman Allyn Museum of Art
• Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich Free Academy Campus
• The William Benton Museum of Art, University of CT
• Art Museum at the University of Saint Joseph
• Hill-Stead Museum
• New Britain Museum of American Art
• Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
• Stamford Museum & Nature Center
• The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
• Mystic Museum of Art

Buy your passport online or at any member museum.

According to CT Visit, the Trail was launched in 1995 as the Connecticut Impressionist Art Trail, celebrating Connecticut's ten museums and historic sites that highlighted American Impressionism. In 2005, the member museums voted to expand its membership beyond Impressionism to include even more quality museums and historic sites, including European masterpieces, American Impressionism, ancient art and contemporary culture. This strategic initiative was accomplished in order to reach a broader audience and showcase the diversity of collections within the state.