Eli Whitney Museum

The Eli Whitney Museum is an experimental learning workshop for students, teachers and families. We collect, interpret, and teach experiments that are the roots of design and invention.

Description:
The Eli Whitney Museum is an experimental learning workshop for students, teachers and families. We collect, interpret, and teach experiments that are the roots of design and invention.
We design, prep, pack and teach more than 72,000 building projects a year with children in schools throughout CT. We match much of our curriculum to meet the CT State Science and Math Framework standards.

Our Vacation and Summer Camp programs employ 60 young people who have grown up in our classes and workshop. They work throughout the school year either after school or on weekends to be eligible to work as a summer counselor.

History:
The Museum has been on the site of Whitney's first factory for 25 years, originally as a traditional Museum, then, for the last 23 years as a teaching center to instill the concepts that Whitney brought to his young apprentices.

Contact people:

Karen Lenahan, Office Manager, (phone), (email) Wm Brown, Executive Director, (phone), (email) Sally Hill, Assistant Director, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (203) 777-1229

Address:

915 Whitney Avenue Hamden, CT 06517 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.eliwhitney.org

Directions:

Nearest Bus Stop: At our entrance on Whitney Ave. J line, 1min minute walk

Last updated on September 14, 2009