Museums

Federal Funding in 2019 Total # Recipients Total $ to Our State (inclusive) IMLS 6 $649,942 NEA 31 $1,476,900 NEH 15 $1,715,934 Museums and related institutions who received grants from these three sources this year are indicated with a * in the list below. Other federal agencies also provide valuable support to museum work, including but not limited to: the , NSF, NOAA, and Department of Education.

Major impacts from just one signature IMLS Program: Museums for All

This access program, in collaboration with the Association of Children’s Museums, encourages families of all backgrounds to visit museums regularly and build lifelong museum habits. Through Museums for All, those receiving SNAP benefits can gain free or reduced admission by presenting their EBT card.

Connecticut has 9 participating sites, and welcomed 6,623 visitors in 2019.

Who are we?

NEMA represents museums, history organizations, science centers, zoos and aquaria, and many others:

NEMA members in our state Total: 442 Institutions 75 Individuals 362 Related Businesses 5

These are some of the museum organizations that serve your constituents:

District 1

 American Clock & Watch Museum  CT Humanities  Newington Historical Society and  Amistad Center for Art & Culture  Harriet Beecher Stowe Center * Trust Inc  Art Museum, University of Saint  Imagine Nation, a Museum Early  House, Inc. Joseph * Learning Center  Raymond E. Baldwin Museum  Connecticut Historical Society *  Joseloff Gallery/Museum  Southwick Historical Society  Connecticut Landmarks  Kidcity Children's Museum  Vintage Radio & Communications  Connecticut Office of the Arts and  Litchfield Historical Society Museum of CT State Historic Preservation Office  Lutz Children's Museum  Wadsworth Atheneum Museum  Connecticut Science Center, Inc.  Mark Twain House & Museum ** of Art  Connecticut Valley Tobacco  New Britain Museum of American  Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum Historical Society, Inc. Art  Wethersfield Historical Society  Connecticut's Old State House  New England Air Museum  Wood Memorial Library  CT Commission on Culture and  The New England Carousel Tourism Museum

District 2

 Avery-Copp House Museum  Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center  New London Maritime Society  Ballard Institute & Museum of  Ellington Historical Society  Slater Memorial Museum Puppetry  Florence Griswold Museum *  Society of the Founders of  Blue Slope Country Museum, Inc.  Lebanon Historical Society Norwich/Leffingwell House  Brookside Farm Museum  Longmeadow Historical Society  Southwick Historical Society  Chester Historical Society  Lyman Allyn Art Museum  Stonington Historical Society, Inc.  Children's Museum of SE CT  Madison Historical Society  Tantaquidgeon Museum  Connecticut Eastern Railroad  Mystic Aquarium *  The Mohegan Tribe Museum  Mystic Museum of Art  U.S. Coast Guard Museum  Connecticut River Museum  Mystic River Historical Society  William Benton Museum of Art  Connecticut SAR  Mystic Seaport Museum  Willington Historical Society  Deacon John Grave Foundation  New London County Historical  Denison Homestead Museum Society District 3

 Cheshire Historical Society  Marietta Museum of Art & Whimsy  West Haven Veteran's Museum and  CT Humanities  Milford Historical Society Learning Center  Dorothy Whitfield Hist. Soc.  National Helicopter Museum Inc  Art Gallery  Dudley Foundation/Dudley Farm  Naugatuck Historical Society  Yale Center for British Art  Friends of Boothe Park, Inc Museum  Yale Peabody Museum of Natural  Guilford Keeping Society  New Haven Museum History *  Ireland's Great Hunger Museum  Palestine Museum US

 Kidcity Children's Museum  Shore Line Trolley Museum District 4

 Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum *  Keeler Tavern Museum  Stamford History Center  Bruce Museum  Lockwood-Mathews Mansion  Stepping Stones Museum for  Darien Historical Society Museum Children  Fairfield University Art  Maurice Sendak Museum  The Barnum Museum Museum * (Exploration Team)  Weir Farm National Historic Site  Greenwich Historical Society  New Canaan Historical Society  Westport Historical Society (CT)  Housatonic Museum of Art  Rowayton Historical Society District 5

 Brookfield Museum & Historical  Litchfield Historical Society  Railroad Museum of New England Society  Mattatuck Museum Art & History  Salisbury Assoc. Historical Society  Cheshire Historical Society Center  Sharon Historical Society &  Danbury Museum & Historical  Naugatuck Historical Society Museum Society Authority  New Britain Industrial Museum  Simsbury Historical Society  Glebe House Museum & Gertrude  New Britain Museum of American  Southbury Historical Society Jekyll Garden Art  Stanley-Whitman House  Gunn Historical Museum  New Milford Historical Society  The Institute for American Indian  Hill-Stead Museum *  Noah Webster House, Inc. Studies  Kent Historical Society  Old Bethlehem Historical Society