As the director of the Natural History Museum, Doug Gurr has had to become a dab hand at what he calls “doing the chicane”. The museum is so often packed with visitors that moving around the place – ...
Walking through the New Britain Museum of American Art, Jimmie Elizabeth Nkonoki-Ward carries with her an excitement about the portraits of women hanging on the walls. The 88-year-old explained that ...
In the late 1970s, New Britain social studies teacher Jimmie Elizabeth Nkonoki-Ward wanted to honor the women who’d taught her Black history and served as her role models. She commissioned an artist ...
Two Connecticut museums are shedding light on the hardships Black Americans faced during the civil rights movement inside the country and inside the state. One stroll around the Mobility in ...
The United Kingdom’s first national LGBTQ museum opens its doors in London’s King’s Cross neighborhood Thursday, almost exactly 50 years after England’s first Gay Pride march took place just a few ...
Sophie Huget knows firsthand how much the New Britain Industrial Museum can raise its profile. As a lifelong Connecticut resident, aspiring curator and later a part-time staffer at three Hartford and ...
Scramble the cat, the mascot of the Kent Battle of Britain Museum, has a worldwide fanbase with some visitors saying they visit the museum purely to meet her. The charming 12-year-old cat has captured ...