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Country Antiques in Connecticut’s Quiet Corner - The show calls itself a country antiques show and the style offered by the exhibitors is predominantly those things made in America by craftsmen with limited resources to create the high style typical of the European craftsmen. There were many examples of furniture that served a special purpose, and it was made with all the skill and imagination ava...

A highlight of this exhibition will be the taxidermy examples from the Bruce Museum’s natural history collection, which will be paired with their illustrated counterparts. Comparisons drawn between the illustrations and specimens address the characteristics that make each animal unique and the artistic techniques utilized to emphasize these features. Closed Mondays and major holidays

March 20 - May 22, 2016 - Both beautiful and inspiring in its presentation of craft and design, this exhibition is an intimate look into the life and work of Thos. Moser. Moser is a first-generation furniture maker who turned away from a tenured professorship and learned his craft by deconstructing and reconstructing existent furniture, then reinventing it through his reductive aesthetic as he cam...

Portrayed as "an American treasure trove" the show features pre-1840 American furniture and appropriate accessories with some of the country's finest and most respected antique dealers. Sun. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission:$15 (good for both days). Handicap accessible:Yes Event held at the State Armory

This 36th annual conference is the finest Ephemera Fair in the country, featuring incomparable material and exceptional dealers. Accented with an auction, a banquet, and a book signing, it will be a feast for the mind and heart. Collectors, dealers, academics, students, and even youngsters, will be treated to a wealth of scholarship and ephemera. Concurrent with the 2016 presidential election, the...

This exhibition features selected photos from the book published to mark that anniversary. In his photographs, Abranowicz has captured the profound beauty and myriad faces of this primeval forest in our midst. Only forty miles from New York City, the Mianus River Gorge is a 1000-acre island of forest and fields in suburban Westchester and Fairfield Counties, a rare, surviving remnant of this origi...

Freshen up your home and collection at the 47th annual Guilford Antiques Show in Connecticut, benefitting the Hyland House Museum. A bright show to awaken your inner collector or decorator, you’ll find much to get you started. From folk art to furniture, books, decoys, quilts, samplers, stoneware, clocks, Oriental rugs, nautical antiques and art, fireplace accessories, paintings and decorations wi...

The exhibit considers the unique inspiration that American Impressionists drew from the eastern Connecticut landscape. Bringing together for the first time more than forty works from museums and private collections across the country. A Good Summer’s Work focuses on paintings created in eastern Connecticut by Weir and others in his circle, including Childe Hassam, Emil Carlsen and John Singer Sarg...

The exhibition will examine how European fashion from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras influenced and inspired new styles created between 1810 and 1860. Gothic to Goth: Romantic Era Fashion and Its Legacy will be the first exhibition to fully explore the Romantic Era as a formative period in costume history. Presenting historic garments alongside literary works, paintings, prints, and de...

February 14 - May 29, 2016 - This exhibition will feature a unique selection of 19th century wedding dresses and wedding-related accessories drawn from the museum’s collection. The tradition of a white wedding dress is credited to Britain’s Queen Victoria when she chose this color for her marriage to Prince Albert in 1840. Historically the wedding dress was not always white. Dresses of different c...