Westport Museum

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Felt Pumpkin Kits

Westport Museum for History & Culture 25 Avery Place, Westport, CT, United States

Our felt pumpkin kits are the perfect craft to celebrate the spooky season. Celebrate a spooktacular Halloween with your own miniature pumpkin creation!  Miniature pumpkin kits will include one felt ...

$5

Thursday Treasure: Dolls

Westport Museum for History & Culture 25 Avery Place, Westport, CT, United States

Whether you find them creepy or cute, dolls remain popular toys and collectibles amongst children and adults. From the sweet to the sinister, take a look at dolls housed in ...

Free

Destination Westport: Art from the Beyond Walking Tour

Greens Farm Lower Cemetery Nyala Farms Rd, Westport, Connecticut, United States

Ever wondered why you shouldn’t walk on a grave or why there are so many skulls on tombstones? Do you know the story of Connecticut’s witch trials? Join Westport Museums ...

$10 – $15

Free First Saturdays

Westport Museum for History & Culture 25 Avery Place, Westport, CT, United States

First Saturdays are a great opportunity to experience what we have to offer at the Westport Museum free of charge on the first Saturday of each month.  Young visitors can ...

Darkness, Inside the Mind of Connecticut’s Witches

Westport Museum for History & Culture 25 Avery Place, Westport, CT, United States

Darkness, Inside the Mind of Connecticut’s Witches is a unique Halloween experience. Enter 1647 and witness the witch trials that European colonists experienced through their own words, in the darkness ...

$10 – $15

Destination Westport: Westport Sanitarium Walking Tour

Winslow Dog Park 25 CT-136, Westport, Connecticut, United States

Though the buildings are long gone, the site of the Westport Sanitarium—one of two in Westport—stood in what is, today, Winslow Park. Follow our docent through the park and discover ...

$10 – $15

Into the Sanitarium Escape Room

Westport Museum for History & Culture 25 Avery Place, Westport, CT, United States

Can you go into the Sanitarium escape room and make it out? Can you uncover the truth of the Westport Sanitarium? Rumors have spread of strange goings on inside the ...

$20 – $25

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Reading by Washington Irving

Westport Museum for History & Culture 25 Avery Place, Westport, CT, United States

The ghostly apparition of Washington Irving, author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, has been resurrected for a special reading of his frightful tale about the Headless Horseman. Audiences of ...

$5

Destination Westport: Dark History

Westport Museum for History & Culture 25 Avery Place, Westport, CT, United States

Sneak along the paths of downtown as you hear curious tales from the darker side of Westport’s past. Care for a stroll along the waters that once contained the runoff ...

$10 – $15

Cocktails & Collections

Westport Museum for History & Culture 25 Avery Place, Westport, CT, United States

Come sip a cocktail and view special pieces from the museum’s collection! This event is for members to enjoy private access to our newly renovated historic barn space and never-seen-before ...

Free

Free First Saturdays

Westport Museum for History & Culture 25 Avery Place, Westport, CT, United States

First Saturdays are a great opportunity to experience what we have to offer at the Westport Museum free of charge on the first Saturday of each month.  Young visitors can ...

Master of Stone: A Bus Tour of Frazier Peters Homes in Westport

Westport Museum for History & Culture 25 Avery Place, Westport, CT, United States

Join us on a bus tour with HisTOURy to see and learn about a collection of this Connecticut icon’s works! Architect Frazier Forman Peters, had a signature stone style. Between ...

$49 – $75


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Past Events

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