The Mattatuck Museum

The Mattatuck Museum aims to provide our community with professional scholarship, preservation, and historical programming about our heritage, stimulate interest in the arts of Connecticut by showcasing their highest quality and expression, and encourage an appreciation of the humanities and the fine arts through its collections, exhibits and programs and to engage our community in an understanding of the past and provide vision and leadership for the future.

Description:
The Mattatuck Museum is one of the oldest museums in Connecticut and one of the first to be accredited by the American Association of Museum. In May of 2008 the museum opened a new 6000 square foot exhibit of the region called “Coming Home: Building Community in a Changing World.” The exhibit offers extensive visitor access to 1,500 oral histories and 25,000 images related to regional experience and features the experiences of workers, women, and immigrants, along with the stories of inventors and entrepreneurs who worked in the industries of the Naugatuck Valley making brass objects, clocks, and buttons over a period of 125 years. It is the most comprehensive presentation of industrial, urban, and immigration history in Connecticut.

Contact person: Laurie Pasteryak, Education Director, (203) 753-0381 x14, (email)

Office fax number: (203) 756-6283

Address:

144 West Main Street Waterbury, CT 06702 (See a map)

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

Last updated on December 15, 2008