Fairfield Museum
April 2020
Storytime Live! on Facebook!
Parents with little ones, tune in on Facebook Wednesday mornings with a Fairfield Museum staff member as they live stream a great story!
Find out more »History Bites! Live on Facebook
Join Laurie Pasteryak, Fairfield Museum Director of Interpretation, as she brings our History Bites Lunchtime Chat series to you, live and online!
Find out more »This Old Thing!
Learn the stories behind objects from the Fairfield Museum's historical collection Live on Facebook every Thursday @ 3:30.
Find out more »Weekly Art Challenge!
Tara Tomaselli, Fairfield Museum's School Programs Manager and artist, will share a new work of art from the Museum’s collection every Monday morning @ 9:30 on Facebook. After examining the artwork, take on the challenge of creating your own work of art. She'll offer questions and an “assignment” to complete each week which will include creating your masterpiece, snapping a photo and uploading to the Weekly Art Challenge Facebook Event to share for all to enjoy!
Find out more »May 2020
Fashioning Women’s Suffrage
Join the Fairfield Museum for our Annual Meeting, as well as a talk by Dr. Heather Munro Prescott, Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University. Prescott will explore how suffragists used dress and other outward symbols to promote their cause. “Voting Was Just the Beginning: 100 Years of Women Making History” marks the centennial of women’s suffrage and celebrates achievements of women leaders nationally. Presented in partnership with Fairfield County’s Community Foundation’s The Fund for Women & Girls…
Find out more »June 2020
20 Women Changemakers
Patricia Caso (from The Women’s Eye podcast) and author Scarlett Lewis will lead a community conversation about their book, "20 Women Changemakers," a profile of 20 remarkable women and their efforts to find solutions to some of our pressing global issues and to improve lives through their initiative within their communities. “Voting Was Just the Beginning: 100 Years of Women Making History” marks the centennial of women’s suffrage and celebrates achievements of women leaders nationally. Presented in partnership with…
Find out more »History Bites: Connecticut Women and the Battle for the Ballot
Join Dr. Kelly Marino, Coordinator of Women’s Studies at Sacred Heart University, for a historical sketch on the 20th century suffrage campaign in Connecticut. Learn about key leaders from and moments in the Fairfield region and the statewide activism, emphasizing the important role that Connecticut played in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Dr. Kelly Marino is Assistant Lecturer of History and Coordinator of Women’s Studies at Sacred Heart University. She is a historian of 20th century America with a…
Find out more »Passport to Leadership Workshop, in partnership with LiveGirl
Parents and daughters will be invited on an adventure that explores what it means to be a confident leader. Younger visitors will join LiveGirl and the Fairfield Museum for esteem-building activities that foster confident leadership. Participants will explore the history of women's activism and complete a LIVE BRAVE passport that helps them explore what it means to be a self-assured leader. “Voting Was Just the Beginning: 100 Years of Women Making History” marks the centennial of women’s suffrage and celebrates…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 1: Floral Fairy Tales
$200.00 – $225
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Step into the magical realm of Fairy Tales! Celebrate timeless tales through art. Each day campers will listen and discuss a new fairy tale, create an art project using various mediums and techniques and retell the day's tale with a short group skit. Campers will enjoy learning and expressing themselves through the arts! Let’s have fun! June 22-26 | 10am – 2pm | Ages 6 – 10 Members: $200; Non-Members: $225
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 1: Floral Fairy Tales
Step into the magical realm of Fairy Tales! Celebrate timeless tales through art. Each day campers will listen and discuss a new fairy tale, create an art project using various mediums and techniques and retell the day's tale with a short group skit. Campers will enjoy learning and expressing themselves through the arts! Let’s have fun! June 22-26 | 10am – 2pm | Ages 6 – 10 Members: $200; Non-Members: $225
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 1: Floral Fairy Tales
Step into the magical realm of Fairy Tales! Celebrate timeless tales through art. Each day campers will listen and discuss a new fairy tale, create an art project using various mediums and techniques and retell the day's tale with a short group skit. Campers will enjoy learning and expressing themselves through the arts! Let’s have fun! June 22-26 | 10am – 2pm | Ages 6 – 10 Members: $200; Non-Members: $225
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 1: Floral Fairy Tales
Step into the magical realm of Fairy Tales! Celebrate timeless tales through art. Each day campers will listen and discuss a new fairy tale, create an art project using various mediums and techniques and retell the day's tale with a short group skit. Campers will enjoy learning and expressing themselves through the arts! Let’s have fun! June 22-26 | 10am – 2pm | Ages 6 – 10 Members: $200; Non-Members: $225
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 1: Floral Fairy Tales
Step into the magical realm of Fairy Tales! Celebrate timeless tales through art. Each day campers will listen and discuss a new fairy tale, create an art project using various mediums and techniques and retell the day's tale with a short group skit. Campers will enjoy learning and expressing themselves through the arts! Let’s have fun! June 22-26 | 10am – 2pm | Ages 6 – 10 Members: $200; Non-Members: $225
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 2: Workshop Fun with Fashion & Florals
$75.00 – $100.00
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Calling all junior fashion designers! Please join us for this fun three-day summer workshop! Discover different arts and crafts techniques while using the current fashion exhibition as inspiration. Create original, fashion-related crafts and artwork including sewn pieces, illustrations and printed tote bags. June 29 – July 1 9:30am – 12:00pm| Ages 8 – 12 Members: $75; Non-Members: $100
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 3: Workshop Fun with Fashion & Florals
$75.00 – $100.00
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Calling all junior fashion designers! Please join us for this fun three-day summer workshop! Discover different arts and crafts techniques while using the current fashion exhibition as inspiration. Create original, fashion-related crafts and artwork including sewn pieces, illustrations and printed tote bags. June 29 – July 1 1:00pm – 3:30pm| Ages 11 – 14 Members: $75; Non-Members: $100
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 2: Workshop Fun with Fashion & Florals
Calling all junior fashion designers! Please join us for this fun three-day summer workshop! Discover different arts and crafts techniques while using the current fashion exhibition as inspiration. Create original, fashion-related crafts and artwork including sewn pieces, illustrations and printed tote bags. June 29 – July 1 9:30am – 12:00pm| Ages 8 – 12 1:00pm – 3:30pm| Ages 11 – 14 Members: $75; Non-Members: $100
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 3: Workshop Fun with Fashion & Florals
Calling all junior fashion designers! Please join us for this fun three-day summer workshop! Discover different arts and crafts techniques while using the current fashion exhibition as inspiration. Create original, fashion-related crafts and artwork including sewn pieces, illustrations and printed tote bags. June 29 – July 1 9:30am – 12:00pm| Ages 8 – 12 1:00pm – 3:30pm| Ages 11 – 14 Members: $75; Non-Members: $100
Find out more »July 2020
Summer Camp Session 2: Workshop Fun with Fashion & Florals
Calling all junior fashion designers! Please join us for this fun three-day summer workshop! Discover different arts and crafts techniques while using the current fashion exhibition as inspiration. Create original, fashion-related crafts and artwork including sewn pieces, illustrations and printed tote bags. June 29 – July 1 9:30am – 12:00pm| Ages 8 – 12 1:00pm – 3:30pm| Ages 11 – 14 Members: $75; Non-Members: $100
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 3: Workshop Fun with Fashion & Florals
Calling all junior fashion designers! Please join us for this fun three-day summer workshop! Discover different arts and crafts techniques while using the current fashion exhibition as inspiration. Create original, fashion-related crafts and artwork including sewn pieces, illustrations and printed tote bags. June 29 – July 1 9:30am – 12:00pm| Ages 8 – 12 1:00pm – 3:30pm| Ages 11 – 14 Members: $75; Non-Members: $100
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 4: Workshop Bringing the Past into Focus
$75 – $100.00
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Attention young shutterbugs! Join us for this fun three-day summer workshop. Learn how to arrange your subjects and compose your photographs. Explore multiple themes each day including nature, architecture, portraiture, landscape, abstraction, and still life. Activities will include looking at historic photographic processes and contemporary digital photo processes. View and discuss photographs in the IMAGES exhibition, participate in photo shoots around the Museum campus, and create fun photo-related art projects. July 8 – July 10, 2020 9:30am –…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 5: Workshop Bringing the Past into Focus
$75.00 – $100.00
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Attention young shutterbugs! Join us for this fun three-day summer workshop. Learn how to arrange your subjects and compose your photographs. Explore multiple themes each day including nature, architecture, portraiture, landscape, abstraction, and still life. Activities will include looking at historic photographic processes and contemporary digital photo processes. View and discuss photographs in the IMAGES exhibition, participate in photo shoots around the Museum campus, and create fun photo-related art projects. July 8 – July 10, 2020 1:00pm –…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 4: Workshop Bringing the Past into Focus
Attention young shutterbugs! Join us for this fun three-day summer workshop. Learn how to arrange your subjects and compose your photographs. Explore multiple themes each day including nature, architecture, portraiture, landscape, abstraction, and still life. Activities will include looking at historic photographic processes and contemporary digital photo processes. View and discuss photographs in the IMAGES exhibition, participate in photo shoots around the Museum campus, and create fun photo-related art projects. July 8 – July 10, 2020 9:30am –…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 4: Workshop Bringing the Past into Focus
Attention young shutterbugs! Join us for this fun three-day summer workshop. Learn how to arrange your subjects and compose your photographs. Explore multiple themes each day including nature, architecture, portraiture, landscape, abstraction, and still life. Activities will include looking at historic photographic processes and contemporary digital photo processes. View and discuss photographs in the IMAGES exhibition, participate in photo shoots around the Museum campus, and create fun photo-related art projects. July 8 – July 10, 2020 9:30am –…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 6: Explore the Natural World
$200.00 – $225.00
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Explore the natural environment surrounding the Fairfield Museum and learn about the history of people who have lived along the coast. Discover how the natural environment has shaped the way Fairfield has changed over time. Make a sketchbook, like famous explorers, and create drawings, sketches, paintings, and notes on our journeys. Study the local flora, fauna, observe bird life and listen to facts, folktales and stories of the sea and the Sound as we combine history, nature and art. July…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 6: Explore the Natural World
Explore the natural environment surrounding the Fairfield Museum and learn about the history of people who have lived along the coast. Discover how the natural environment has shaped the way Fairfield has changed over time. Make a sketchbook, like famous explorers, and create drawings, sketches, paintings, and notes on our journeys. Study the local flora, fauna, observe bird life and listen to facts, folktales and stories of the sea and the Sound as we combine history, nature and art. July…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 6: Explore the Natural World
Explore the natural environment surrounding the Fairfield Museum and learn about the history of people who have lived along the coast. Discover how the natural environment has shaped the way Fairfield has changed over time. Make a sketchbook, like famous explorers, and create drawings, sketches, paintings, and notes on our journeys. Study the local flora, fauna, observe bird life and listen to facts, folktales and stories of the sea and the Sound as we combine history, nature and art. July…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 6: Explore the Natural World
Explore the natural environment surrounding the Fairfield Museum and learn about the history of people who have lived along the coast. Discover how the natural environment has shaped the way Fairfield has changed over time. Make a sketchbook, like famous explorers, and create drawings, sketches, paintings, and notes on our journeys. Study the local flora, fauna, observe bird life and listen to facts, folktales and stories of the sea and the Sound as we combine history, nature and art. July…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 6: Explore the Natural World
Explore the natural environment surrounding the Fairfield Museum and learn about the history of people who have lived along the coast. Discover how the natural environment has shaped the way Fairfield has changed over time. Make a sketchbook, like famous explorers, and create drawings, sketches, paintings, and notes on our journeys. Study the local flora, fauna, observe bird life and listen to facts, folktales and stories of the sea and the Sound as we combine history, nature and art. July…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 7: Super Spies
$200.00 – $225
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Discover the intrigue, drama and our local connection with George Washington’s Culper Spy Ring. Find out more about spies throughout history, from the intrigues in Egypt and Rome to James Bond and the Cold War. Learn the skills and build the tools necessary to become a “super spy” by studying the history of spy-making, creating codes and disguises. Your mission: discover the mole in our midst, work as a team to create spy challenges and develop endurance by training with…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 7: Super Spies
Discover the intrigue, drama and our local connection with George Washington’s Culper Spy Ring. Find out more about spies throughout history, from the intrigues in Egypt and Rome to James Bond and the Cold War. Learn the skills and build the tools necessary to become a “super spy” by studying the history of spy-making, creating codes and disguises. Your mission: discover the mole in our midst, work as a team to create spy challenges and develop endurance by training with…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 7: Super Spies
Discover the intrigue, drama and our local connection with George Washington’s Culper Spy Ring. Find out more about spies throughout history, from the intrigues in Egypt and Rome to James Bond and the Cold War. Learn the skills and build the tools necessary to become a “super spy” by studying the history of spy-making, creating codes and disguises. Your mission: discover the mole in our midst, work as a team to create spy challenges and develop endurance by training with…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 7: Super Spies
Discover the intrigue, drama and our local connection with George Washington’s Culper Spy Ring. Find out more about spies throughout history, from the intrigues in Egypt and Rome to James Bond and the Cold War. Learn the skills and build the tools necessary to become a “super spy” by studying the history of spy-making, creating codes and disguises. Your mission: discover the mole in our midst, work as a team to create spy challenges and develop endurance by training with…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 7: Super Spies
Discover the intrigue, drama and our local connection with George Washington’s Culper Spy Ring. Find out more about spies throughout history, from the intrigues in Egypt and Rome to James Bond and the Cold War. Learn the skills and build the tools necessary to become a “super spy” by studying the history of spy-making, creating codes and disguises. Your mission: discover the mole in our midst, work as a team to create spy challenges and develop endurance by training with…
Find out more »August 2020
Summer Camp Session 8: Graphic Arts: My Fascinating World
$200.00 – $225.00
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Create your own Fairfield graphic novel by picking a history theme and building rich, exciting and unbelievable stories for your own book. Will your novel be funny, scary, or suspenseful? How will your story end? You don’t have to be a writer, just bring a great attitude and imagination! Read our favorite graphic novels and books, and discuss related movies for inspiration. Meet special guests, including artists and writers from the graphic novel world. Campers will be presented with a…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 8: Graphic Arts: My Fascinating World
Create your own Fairfield graphic novel by picking a history theme and building rich, exciting and unbelievable stories for your own book. Will your novel be funny, scary, or suspenseful? How will your story end? You don’t have to be a writer, just bring a great attitude and imagination! Read our favorite graphic novels and books, and discuss related movies for inspiration. Meet special guests, including artists and writers from the graphic novel world. Campers will be presented with a…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 8: Graphic Arts: My Fascinating World
Create your own Fairfield graphic novel by picking a history theme and building rich, exciting and unbelievable stories for your own book. Will your novel be funny, scary, or suspenseful? How will your story end? You don’t have to be a writer, just bring a great attitude and imagination! Read our favorite graphic novels and books, and discuss related movies for inspiration. Meet special guests, including artists and writers from the graphic novel world. Campers will be presented with a…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 8: Graphic Arts: My Fascinating World
Create your own Fairfield graphic novel by picking a history theme and building rich, exciting and unbelievable stories for your own book. Will your novel be funny, scary, or suspenseful? How will your story end? You don’t have to be a writer, just bring a great attitude and imagination! Read our favorite graphic novels and books, and discuss related movies for inspiration. Meet special guests, including artists and writers from the graphic novel world. Campers will be presented with a…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 8: Graphic Arts: My Fascinating World
Create your own Fairfield graphic novel by picking a history theme and building rich, exciting and unbelievable stories for your own book. Will your novel be funny, scary, or suspenseful? How will your story end? You don’t have to be a writer, just bring a great attitude and imagination! Read our favorite graphic novels and books, and discuss related movies for inspiration. Meet special guests, including artists and writers from the graphic novel world. Campers will be presented with a…
Find out more »Exploring Women’s Suffrage through 50 Historic Treasures
Historian and curator Jessica Jenkins will present a new perspective on the suffrage movement by using tangible objects as a means of bringing the history of women’s suffrage to life. She will discuss a range of objects from the women’s suffrage movement and explore how material culture can provide deeper context to the rallying cry “Votes for Women!” “Voting Was Just the Beginning: 100 Years of Women Making History” marks the centennial of women’s suffrage and celebrates achievements of…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 9: Colonial Life Camp at the 1750 Ogden House
$250 – $275.00
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Step back in time and discover what life was like in Colonial times at the 1750 Ogden House, located at 1520 Bronson Road in Fairfield. Dipping candles, writing with a feather pen and ink, and making homemade butter and ice cream were all in a day’s work. Spend four days learning and playing at the Ogden House, a Fairfield Saltbox home dating back to 1750, and spend the final day on the historic Town Green exploring a 19th century schoolhouse…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 9: Colonial Life Camp at the 1750 Ogden House
Step back in time and discover what life was like in Colonial times at the 1750 Ogden House, located at 1520 Bronson Road in Fairfield. Dipping candles, writing with a feather pen and ink, and making homemade butter and ice cream were all in a day’s work. Spend four days learning and playing at the Ogden House, a Fairfield Saltbox home dating back to 1750, and spend the final day on the historic Town Green exploring a 19th century schoolhouse…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 9: Colonial Life Camp at the 1750 Ogden House
Step back in time and discover what life was like in Colonial times at the 1750 Ogden House, located at 1520 Bronson Road in Fairfield. Dipping candles, writing with a feather pen and ink, and making homemade butter and ice cream were all in a day’s work. Spend four days learning and playing at the Ogden House, a Fairfield Saltbox home dating back to 1750, and spend the final day on the historic Town Green exploring a 19th century schoolhouse…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 9: Colonial Life Camp at the 1750 Ogden House
Step back in time and discover what life was like in Colonial times at the 1750 Ogden House, located at 1520 Bronson Road in Fairfield. Dipping candles, writing with a feather pen and ink, and making homemade butter and ice cream were all in a day’s work. Spend four days learning and playing at the Ogden House, a Fairfield Saltbox home dating back to 1750, and spend the final day on the historic Town Green exploring a 19th century schoolhouse…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 9: Colonial Life Camp at the 1750 Ogden House
Step back in time and discover what life was like in Colonial times at the 1750 Ogden House, located at 1520 Bronson Road in Fairfield. Dipping candles, writing with a feather pen and ink, and making homemade butter and ice cream were all in a day’s work. Spend four days learning and playing at the Ogden House, a Fairfield Saltbox home dating back to 1750, and spend the final day on the historic Town Green exploring a 19th century schoolhouse…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 10: Colonial Life Camp at the 1750 Ogden House
$250.00 – $275.00
12 tickets left
Step back in time and discover what life was like in Colonial times at the 1750 Ogden House, located at 1520 Bronson Road in Fairfield. Dipping candles, writing with a feather pen and ink, and making homemade butter and ice cream were all in a day’s work. Spend four days learning and playing at the Ogden House, a Fairfield Saltbox home dating back to 1750, and spend the final day on the historic Town Green exploring a 19th century schoolhouse…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 10: Colonial Life Camp at the 1750 Ogden House
Step back in time and discover what life was like in Colonial times at the 1750 Ogden House, located at 1520 Bronson Road in Fairfield. Dipping candles, writing with a feather pen and ink, and making homemade butter and ice cream were all in a day’s work. Spend four days learning and playing at the Ogden House, a Fairfield Saltbox home dating back to 1750, and spend the final day on the historic Town Green exploring a 19th century schoolhouse…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 10: Colonial Life Camp at the 1750 Ogden House
Step back in time and discover what life was like in Colonial times at the 1750 Ogden House, located at 1520 Bronson Road in Fairfield. Dipping candles, writing with a feather pen and ink, and making homemade butter and ice cream were all in a day’s work. Spend four days learning and playing at the Ogden House, a Fairfield Saltbox home dating back to 1750, and spend the final day on the historic Town Green exploring a 19th century schoolhouse…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 10: Colonial Life Camp at the 1750 Ogden House
Step back in time and discover what life was like in Colonial times at the 1750 Ogden House, located at 1520 Bronson Road in Fairfield. Dipping candles, writing with a feather pen and ink, and making homemade butter and ice cream were all in a day’s work. Spend four days learning and playing at the Ogden House, a Fairfield Saltbox home dating back to 1750, and spend the final day on the historic Town Green exploring a 19th century schoolhouse…
Find out more »Summer Camp Session 10: Colonial Life Camp at the 1750 Ogden House
Step back in time and discover what life was like in Colonial times at the 1750 Ogden House, located at 1520 Bronson Road in Fairfield. Dipping candles, writing with a feather pen and ink, and making homemade butter and ice cream were all in a day’s work. Spend four days learning and playing at the Ogden House, a Fairfield Saltbox home dating back to 1750, and spend the final day on the historic Town Green exploring a 19th century schoolhouse…
Find out more »November 2020
2020 Pop Up Market
$275.00 – $400.00
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The Fairfield Museum and the Fairfield Chapter of the National Charity League are pleased to announce the 7th annual Holiday Pop-Up Market! This festive Market of holiday gifts at the Museum is a wonderful kick-off to the holiday season! With dozens of exciting vendors, a raffle and more, we hope you join us! 2020 Dates: Saturday, November 14 and Sunday November 15 – 10AM-4PM To become a vendor see table reservation information below. Early bird pricing ends April 30, 2020.…
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