Educational Fairs and Festivals

The Museum’s Education Department participates in a variety of educational fairs and festivals each year. The Museum makes contact with new people and reconnects with past visitors during these outreach initiatives through an array of hands-on activities, portable exhibits, computer demonstrations, and printed materials.

If you would like the invite the Florence Griswold Museum to participate in your next educational fair or festival, contact the Museum’s Education Department at (860) 434-5542, ext. 115 or david@flogris.org.


Families enjoy the Museum's "En Plein Air" Painting Park on the Children's Pier in New London during Boats, Books, & Brushes

Examples of Recent Outreach Events

  • Boats, Books, & Brushes, New London
  • CAEA Education Conference, Hartford
  • Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven
  • Fine Living & Gift Expo. Mystic
  • Connecticut Family Day at Harkness. Waterford
  • Local History Day at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center History Day, Ledyard
  • Minds-in-Motion Workshop at Old Lyme Middle School, Old Lyme
  • Sailfest, New London
  • YMCA Healthy Kids Days, Middletown

 

 

Florence Griswold Museum’s
Hands-On, Minds-On Education Area

Each summer the Museum presents Hands-On, Minds-On, an educational area offered during the Old Lyme's Midsummer Festival, a town-wide celebration of the arts offered the last weekend in July. Local not-for-profit organizations are invited to participate by presenting a hands-on activity for children and distributing information about their family offerings.

 


Fun hands-on activities in the Hands-On, Minds-On area at the Old Lyme's Midsummer Festival on the Museum grounds

Recent Participants in Hands-On, Minds-On

  • Antiquarian & Landmarks Society, Hartford
  • Children’s Museum of Southeastern Connecticut, Niantic
  • Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford
  • Connecticut River Museum, Essex
  • Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, Mystic
  • DNA EpiCenter, New London
  • Girl Scouts Connecticut Trails Council, Inc., New London
  • High Hopes Therapeutic Riding, Old Lyme
  • Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London
  • Lyme’s Youth Service Bureau, Old Lyme
  • Maritime Education Network, Old Saybrook
  • Music Together of the River Valley, Chester
  • Old Lyme Conservation Trust, Old Lyme
  • Old Lyme Phoebe-Griffin Noyes Library, Old Lyme
  • Project Oceanology, Groton
  • Tracey Art Center, Inc., Old Saybrook

 

If you would like your organization to participate in Hands-On, Minds-On, the Museum’s education department for information at (860) 434-5542, ext. 115 or david@flogris.org.