Museum sights in Hartford
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Museum of Connecticut History
While you’re up on Capitol Hill, have a look at this museum housed in the State Library and Supreme Court Building just across from the State Capitol. Nationally known for its genealogy library, it also holds Connecticut’s royal charter of 1662, a prime collection of Colt firearms (which were manufactured in Hartford), coins and the table at which Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Mark Twain House & Museum
It was at this former home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain, that the legendary author penned many of his greatest works, including A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The house itself, a Victorian Gothic with fanciful turrets and gables, reflects Twain's quirky character.
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Wadsworth Atheneum
America's oldest art museum showcases outstanding collections of Hudson River School paintings and sculptures by renowned Connecticut artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976).
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Harriet Beecher Stowe House
Next door to the Twain house is the former home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. The book so rallied Americans against slavery that Abraham Lincoln once credited Stowe with starting the US Civil War.
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