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Bruce Museum of Arts and Science

Address: 1 Museum Dr., off I-95 (Exit 3), Greenwich, CT | Map It
Phone: 203/869-0376
www.brucemuseum.org

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: Greenwich

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Fodor's Review:

In 1908, the owner of this then-private home (built in 1853), wealthy textile merchant Robert Moffat Bruce, bequeathed it to the town of Greenwich with the stipulation that it be used "as a natural history, historical and art museum, for the use and benefit of the public." Today this diversity remains reflected in the museum's collection of some 15,000 objects in fine and decorative arts, natural history, and anthropology—including paintings by Childe Hassam, sculptures by Auguste Rodin and George Segal, and stained glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Dale Chihuly—from which the museum selects items for changing exhibitions. Permanently on display, however, is the spectacular mineral collection. Kids enjoy viewing the wiggly creatures in the Bruce's marine touch tank and listening to stories from long ago and far away in the full-size reconstruction of a Woodland Indian wigwam.

Cost: $7, free Tues.
Open: Tues.-Sat. 10-5, Sun. 1-5

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