Select CT Museums to Offer Free Admission for Military Families

For active duty military personnel and their families, this summer could be a fun and educational one. Select Connecticut museums will offer free admission for the season, which runs through Labor Day. 

The National Endowment of the Arts, Blue Star Families and the Department of Defense have teamed up with more than 1,500 museums nationwide to create the Blue Star Museums program benefiting military families. 

Participating museums across the country will offer free admission to personnel and their families starting on Memorial Day and continuing through Labor Day.

Here's the state's participating museums, as listed on the Blue Star Museum website's interactive map:

Bristol

• American Clock & Watch Museum
• The Imagine Nation 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

  Hartford

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

  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