New Haven Museum
City: New Haven
The New Haven Museum, founded in 1862, celebrates the city’s history and culture in a historic Colonial Revival building. The museum’s exhibits include art, artifacts, and documents, and it also hosts educational programs and events. Visitors can explore New Haven’s rich heritage through the museum’s permanent and rotating exhibits, which highlight the Amistad case and local industry. The museum aims to preserve and share the city’s past by engaging the community through storytelling and research.
The museum features several permanent exhibitions, including the New Haven Gallery, which displays the Eli Whitney Cotton Gin; the Amistad Gallery, showcasing Nathaniel Joselyn’s Cinque Portrait; the Ingersoll Room, featuring Linda Lindroth’s oversized Polaroid colorful portraits; and the Maritime Gallery with additional temporary exhibitions. One of the current exhibitions, “Shining Light on Truth,” highlights the crucial role of enslaved and free Black people in New Haven and at Yale. It celebrates Black resistance and community building and sheds light on knowledge that has been kept alive in archives and memory for over three centuries, even when the dominant culture chooses to ignore, bury, or forget.
Admission is free through summer 2024.
Hours: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday noon-5 p.m.
To schedule an appointment in the Whitney Library, contact librarian Ed Surato at library@newhavenmuseum.org or (203) 562-4183 ext.115 to discuss your research project.
114 Whitney Ave, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
203-562-4183
