Lunch and Learn: What Time Is It?

Virtual

In this talk, New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) Fellow Alexandra M. Macdonald will draw from both the museum and archival collections at the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History to offer insight into how our perception of time has always been sensory, and suggest that clock time may not be as all-consuming as it might feel.

Free

Hidden Literacies: A Digital Resource From Overlooked Archives

Virtual

Hidden Literacies is an exciting digital anthology created by Trinity College that reveals the surprising, often neglected roles reading and writing have played in the lives of marginalized Americans—from indigenous and enslaved people to prisoners and young children. Come learn more about using these sources (and expert commentaries) in your classrooms and libraries!

Recurring

Black Connecticans, Ordinary and Extraordinary

Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth St, Hartford

Step into our collections spaces to take an exclusive look at items representing a spectrum of the Black experience in Connecticut.

Recurring

Black Connecticans, Ordinary and Extraordinary

Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth St, Hartford

Step into our collections spaces to take an exclusive look at items representing a spectrum of the Black experience in Connecticut.

Celebrate Lunar New Year!

Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth St, Hartford, CT

Come to the CMCH to welcome the Year of the Rabbit and learn about the many ways that Lunar New Year is celebrated today across different cultures. This FREE event will feature crafts, musical and dance performances, food, and a special gallery talk in our exhibition Journeys 旅途: Boys of the Chinese Educational Mission.

Free

Lunch and Learn: Black Revolution on the Sea Islands

Virtual

This virtual Lunch and Learn presentation by Frances O’Shaughnessy draws on military letters, treasury reports, and personal letters from the denoted “Port Royal Experiment” to historicize Gullah Geechee people’s expressions of freedom during the Civil War,

Free

Bicycles: On the Path to Women’s Rights

Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth St, Hartford

What did bicycles have to do with the fight for women's rights? In this presentation, historian Allison Lange will talk about how, in the 1890s, women embraced the bicycle and the freedom of movement that came with it. While their bloomers and independence made critics anxious, many women used bicycles to seek new opportunities.

Inspire Center – New Theme!

The Inspire Center brings history and problem-solving together in a hands-on creative space for visitors of all ages! March's challenge is to invent a new way to clean! Can you make cleaning fun?