- The Museum will be closed Thursday, June 19 in observance of Juneteenth.
The Museum offers many fun and fulfilling options for school field trips, homeschool groups, scouts and youth groups, college students, and adult groups. Read on below to learn more about all these options.
To book children’s groups, contact Julie Garvin-Riggs 860.434.5542 x113. To book adult groups of 10 or more, contact Kyle Gregoire 860.434.5542 x110.
Thanks to the generosity of the Frank Loomis Palmer Fund, funds may be available – if your school or organization qualifies – to pay for the cost of your students’ bus transportation to and from the Florence Griswold Museum. Funds are limited to K-12 schools and organizations serving children.
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So Many Ways to Learn
Bring a Group to Wee Faerie Village
Bring a Troop or Youth Group
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This Museum is exactly what other reviewers described. Warm, welcoming and intimate. This is a very unique and well maintained museum, all the staff there were so attentive and informative. It is truly a hidden treasure that people should definitely visit.
— Museum Visitor
Outreach Programs
How to Paint an Impressionist Landscape
How to Paint a Tonalist Landscape
Laugh Lines: A Printmaking Workshop
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It is around ‘Miss Florence’s’ house that most of the art life centers, or has originated. Every painter who has ever been to Lyme knows Miss Florence Griswold. She takes good care of them, is interested in their work, and they find there that intangible thing, an art atmosphere.
— Travel Writer, Clara Walker Whiteside, 1926
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