Celebrate Art, History, and Nature

From your phone or home computer, place your bids on a fantastic assortment of artwork, decorative items, experiences, and travel! Auction closes September 26 at 8pm.
Bidding is easy, fun, and every bid means so much! Every dollar raised supports the Museum’s innovative & inspiring educational programs.

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As you may have seen when visiting or driving by, the front of the Griswold House is being patched and painted to preserve the beauty of our namesake historic landmark. Since stewardship of our historic structures is crucial to telling the Lyme Art Colony story, we thought it would be apropos to ask our community to help support the desperately-needed care of our Museum’s “crown jewel.”

It will require over 50 gallons of paint to complete the painting of the exterior of the Griswold House over the next four years. We are grateful to our friends at Rings End Lumber who are providing this paint at a discounted rate.

Won’t you consider funding the purchase of paint with a gift of $500? What about 10 hours of labor for our painting contractors with a gift of $750? Or the purchase of supplies and materials with a gift of $100?

Raise Your Bid high (albeit virtually!) to help us raise $30,000 to restore Miss Florence’s home to its full glory!

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Wee Faerie Village, the Museum's month-long family-friendly event scheduled for October will be going virtual this year. Details will be available September 24. One of the highlights will be Wee TV, half-hour episodes of faerie crafts and special guests. Extra creative faerie aficionados will want to take part in the Wee Faerie Super Fan and Crafting Club. Club members receive a Folly Woods pin (only 100 available). More activities are being planned to capture the magic of the faerie realm for participants of all ages.

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"Fresh Fields" is a celebration of the Museum’s most beloved landscape paintings created by Impressionist artists who visited Old Lyme. The selection highlights major recent acquisitions, such as "Childe Hassam’s Apple Trees in Bloom, Old Lyme" (1904), and emphasize ongoing research about our landscape.

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With English and Spanish labels and text. “Nothing More American” brings together depictions of Old Lyme’s renowned First Congregational Church by 19th– and early-20th-century painters such as Childe Hassam with photographs by contemporary artist Matthew Leifheit that contemplate the meetinghouse’s evolving symbolism.

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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.

Visit the Gallery

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.

Visit the House

The Museum’s grounds invite exploration.

Visit the Grounds