Celebrating Art, History, and Nature

To increase access to the Museum’s wonderful artworks, the Niblack Gallery in our Robert and Nancy Krieble Gallery will be dedicated to a long-term installation of selections from the permanent collection. Focused on three themes (community, Connecticut and the environment, and the creative spark), many of our most loved treasures will be on view and changed out throughout the year.

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An exciting addition to the New England museum landscape, the Westerly Museum of American Impressionism (WMAI) is currently being constructed in Westerly, Rhode Island and is expected to open in 2025.

In this pop-up exhibition at the FloGris Museum, select paintings from WMAI’s collection will provide a glimpse into what the museum’s galleries will offer.

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In 2024 the world celebrates the sesquicentennial of the first independent exhibition of the French Impressionists opened in Paris.

The FloGris Museum’s permanent collection contains many treasures through which to tell the story of Impressionism, how it traveled across the ocean, and how audience reactions shifted over time. Impressionism 150 locates the role of Connecticut artists and settings in this narrative. As the Home of American Impressionism, the Museum is uniquely qualified to tell this fascinating story!

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Pack a picnic, bring your friends, and come out to the Museum for some live music!

This July, in partnership with the Lymes' Senior Center, the FloGris weekly concert series returns featuring local bands and food trucks on the grounds. Enjoy food, friends, tunes, and a beautiful summer sunset over the Lieutenant River – and it’s all free to you, as a gift to our friends and neighbors.

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Explore our full roster of upcoming programming. Family-friendly events, plus lectures and educational programming for our current exhibitions.

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Join us for this annual celebration of all things summer in Old Lyme!

Kick off the weekend with the annual concert on Friday night on the banks of the Lieutenant River. On Saturday, enjoy art sales, local vendors, food trucks, free admission, a dog show, the FloGris Shop super sale, and much more.

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The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme is collaborating with the New Orleans-based artist jackie sumell to install one of her “Solitary Garden” beds on our grounds, in conjunction with the exhibition Social & Solitary: Reflections on Art, Isolation, and Renewal. The Solitary Garden project comes to life through correspondence between a volunteer and a currently incarcerated “gardener.” Their letters articulate to the Museum what kinds of flowers or plants are grown in the garden bed. Each Solitary Garden is a gesture of hope connecting an isolated person to the outside world through the restorative act of nurturing plants.

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Want to pre-book your general admission tickets to visit the Museum? We now offer this convenience to all visitors.

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People from Connecticut's five tribes are collaborating to curate an exhibition that will be on view at the FloGris Museum in conjunction with the exhibition "Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape," curated by Dr. Scott Manning Stevens.

Refer to the form linked below for eligibility. Deadline: July 31. We look forward to seeing your submissions!

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The paintings and sculptures in this exhibition are by artists who lived and worked in Connecticut from the late Colonial period to the early 20th century.

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During the first summers of the Lyme art colony the artists began to paint scenes on the door panels of the boardinghouse.

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One of the most celebrated works of art at the Florence Griswold Museum is the frieze-like painting titled The Fox Chase (1905) created by Henry Rankin Poore.

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Begin your visit at the Krieble Gallery.

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The Late Georgian mansion was transformed from a wealthy sea captain’s home into a boardinghouse for some of the most noted names in American Impressionism.

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The Museum’s grounds invite exploration.

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