Join IMAGES 2024 Featured Photographer Isabel Chenoweth for a discussion on her inspiration and process. In particular, she will share more about using vision and intent to convey a sense of place and tell a visual story through compositional and design elements – light, color, texture, rhythm, shape, angle, balance, and proportion. Free with Museum […]

Stop by the Research Library to meet our Research Librarian Ed Surato and explore select manuscripts related to the Gilded Age in Fairfield. Free with Museum Admission   Image: Postcard of Sunnieholme and its gardens, c. 1910-1930. Fairfield Museum Postcard Collection.

Our 2024 Spring Speaker Series starts with an exploration of the origins of eastern North America’s Indigenous ceremonial stone landscapes. Dr. Lucianne Lavin, Research Director Emerita at The Institute for American Indian Studies, recently compiled research from a plethora of Native American culture bearers, anthropologists, and archaeologists that provides an important new lens for interpreting […]

Immigrant labor and innovative businessmen. Domestic servants and wealthy vacationers. Growing public need and local benefactors. Contradictions characterize the Gilded Age in Fairfield. The “Gilded Age” (1865-1912) was a period of immense growth in America known for lavish expressions of wealth and cavernous class distinctions. In 1873, Mark Twain gave the era its name with […]

Join the Fairfield Museum's Walt Matis for a special guided tour of current exhibitions to explore the Gilded Age in Fairfield.   Walk-ins are welcome. $5 for Members, $10 for Non-Members.     Image: Postcard of Sunnieholme and its gardens, c. 1910-1930. Fairfield Museum Postcard Collection.

Connecticut’s modern landscape is the product of our fascinating geologic past. The geologic history of our state is preserved in the bedrock and landforms of the region and spans approximately one billion years of Earth’s history. In this talk, we will explore the processes of mountain building and continental rifting that formed the bedrock of […]