Connecticut Art Trail

Discover Connecticut’s artistic treasures along the award-winning CT Art Trail, 21 world-class museums and historic sites, ranging from bucolic farms, art studios and former artists’ boarding houses to grand and modern downtown art museums.

21 museums, over 500,000 works of art within permanent collections, 250 scenic miles.

Make the Connecticut Art Trail the centerpiece of your next travel experience by purchasing the $25 Art Passport, a $90+ value with added benefits and special promotions. The Art Passport allows pass-holders admission to all 21 member museums and historic sites on the Trail once each within one year:

• Bruce Museum

• Center for Contemporary Printmaking

• Fairfield University Art Museum

• Greenwich Historical Society/Bush-Holley Historic Site

• The Housatonic Museum of Art

• Weir Farm National Historic Site

• Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University

• Yale Center for British Art

• Yale University Art Gallery

• Mattatuck Museum

• Florence Griswold Museum

• Lyman Allyn Museum of Art

• Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich Free Academy Campus

• The William Benton Museum of Art, University of CT

• Art Museum at the University of Saint Joseph

• Hill-Stead Museum

• New Britain Museum of American Art

• Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

• Stamford Museum & Nature Center

• The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

• Mystic Museum of Art

Buy your passport online or at any member museum.

The Trail was launched in 1995 as the Connecticut Impressionist Art Trail, celebrating Connecticut's ten museums and historic sites that highlighted American Impressionism. In 2005, the member museums voted to expand its membership beyond Impressionism to include even more quality museums and historic sites, including European masterpieces, American Impressionism, ancient art and contemporary culture. This strategic initiative was accomplished in order to reach a broader audience and showcase the diversity of collections within the state.

Pricing: $25 Passport for admission to all 21 museums within one year.

Other Amenities: Bus Parking, Gift Shop, Groups Welcome, Guided Group Tours, Indoor Activity, Meeting/Event Facilities, Planned Activites, Store, Toilets, Nature Trails

Dates of Operation: Year-round.

Less