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The Connecticut Historical Society offers fun, thought-provoking museum tours that make great outings for senior groups, social clubs, bus tours, other historical societies, or family groups.
Bring entertaining and engaging history to your library, senior center, retirement community or club with a CHS Traveling program. See our current presentations.
Please call (860) 236-5621 x232 or email us to book your tour or for more information.
Throughout the year, the Connecticut Historical Society offers public presentations, participates in festivals and family events, and partners with community organizations and businesses in the region and around the state. Here you will find a list of activities at various off-site locations. For more information about a specific event check our calendar of upcoming events or please get in touch with the local contact. We hope to see you when we’re out and about!
The CHS has partnered with The New-York Historical Society to offer free citizenship classes for green card holders preparing for the naturalization interview. The classes prepare green card holders to take the civics test portion of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) naturalization interview.
This free course covers all 100 questions from the USCIS Civics test. Participants will learn about American government and history using objects, paintings, and documents from the CHS and The New-York Historical Society collections.
Classes are taught in English and are recommended for intermediate level English Language Learners.
Each course runs for 6 weeks and meets twice per week, for a total of 12 class meetings.
Our next online course begins on Monday, June 13, 2022.. The class will meet every Monday and Thursday (except July 4) from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM for 6 weeks. Click here to sign up! This class is taught online using Zoom.
If you are interested in taking the course sooner, you can take online classes with the New-York Historical Society. Click here to see their available classes.
For more information, email [email protected]
Are you curious about the USCIS Civics test? Click here to take a practice version.
Free admission to the museum galleries all day. Please note that free admission does not include the Waterman Research Center.
Tuesday-Friday 12pm-5pm, Thursday nights until 8pm
Saturday 9am-5pm
Sunday 12pm-5pm
Tuesday-Saturday 12pm-5pm, Thursday nights until 8pm
Always by appointment only.
One Elizabeth Street
Hartford CT, 06105
