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F/T CT Emply.

Annual Revenue
in '000s

Senior Officer

Title

Rank BOL CT


Rank BNH BOL

Name

Annual Attendance

Description

Admission

Open

6t

5 

Yale Center for British Art

New Haven
203-432-2800

76

DOES NOT APPLY

Amy Meyers

Director

100,000

Largest comprehensive collection of
British art outside the UK

Free

10-5 Tues-Sat, noon-5 Sun, closed major holidays

3

3 

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

New Haven
203-432-5050

75

DOES NOT APPLY

Michael Donoghue

Director

140,000

Great Hall of Dinosaurs, world cultures,
history of man & earth

$7 adults, $6 seniors,
$5 children 3-18

10-5 daily, noon-5 Sun,
closed major holidays

2

2 

Yale University Art Gallery

New Haven
203-432-0600

88

DOES NOT APPLY

Jock Reynolds

Director

150,000

Encyclopedic collection of 185,000+ works
of art from ancient times to the present

Free

10-5 Tues-Sat, ‘til 8 Thurs, Sept-June, 1-6 Sun

12t

 

Barker Character, Comic & Cartoon Museum

Cheshire
203-699-3822

0

DOES NOT APPLY

Nancy Spitzer

Museum director

50,000

Museum of cartoon & character collectibles, official Gumby & California Raisins museum

Free

Wed-Sat 11-5

4t

4 

Amistad America Inc.

New Haven
203-495-1839

6

DOES NOT APPLY

Christopher R. Cloud

President & CEO

125,000

Freedom Schooner Amistad shares
the lessons of the Amistad incident of 1839

$6 adults, $4 ages 17 & under & seniors

June 13-25, July 11-16
July 26-August 7

16

13 

Barnum Museum

Bridgeport
203-331-1104

5

DOES NOT APPLY

Kathy Maher

Acting executive director/curator

23,000

Museum chronicling life &
times of P.T. Barnum

$5 adults, $4 seniors & college students, $3 4-17

10-4:30 Tues-Sat,
noon-4:30 Sun

12 

Conn. River Museum & Steamboat Dock

Essex
860-767-8269

7

DOES NOT APPLY

Stuart Parnes

Executive director

20,000

Celebrating the cultural and natural history of the Connecticut River

$6 adults, $5 seniors,
$3 children

10-5 Tues-Sun

19

17t 

Connecticut Children’s Museum

New Haven
203-562-5437

12

DOES NOT APPLY

Sanda Malmquist

Director

15,000

Activities, literacy program, creative readers, educational field trips, family visits

$5

12-5 Fri & Sat

6t

6 

Discovery Museum & Planetarium

Bridgeport
203-372-3521

15

DOES NOT APPLY

Linda Malkin

Executive director

65,000

Interactive science museum w/ planetarium

$8.50 adults,
$5.50 3-17 & seniors

10-5 Tues-Sat,
12-5 Sun

11

9 

Eli Whitney Museum

Hamden
203-777-1833

8

DOES NOT APPLY

William Brown

Director

72,000

Outdoor water learning lab, 1816 Barn,
1/3 scale model of Whitney’s first armory

Free, fee for projects

Noon-5 Wed-Fri, Sun;
10-3 Sat (summer 11-4 daily)

21

21 

Fort Nathan Hale/ Black Rock Fort

New Haven
203-946-6970

N/A

DOES NOT APPLY

Robert Levine

director

7,000

Partially restored Civil War fort &
reconstructed Revolutionary fort on harbor

Free

9-4 daily Mem-Labor Day

17t 

Garbage Museum

Stratford
203-381-9571

4

DOES NOT APPLY

Sotoria Montanari

Education supervisor

22,000

Environmental education facility for children & adults attached to regional recycling facility

Free

12-4 Wed-Fri Sept-June;
10-4 Tue-Fri July-Aug

24t 

Gen. David Humphreys House

Ansonia
203-735-1908

0

DOES NOT APPLY

Robert Novak

Executive director

3,000

Restored 1698 home of
General Washington’s aide-de-camp

$5 adults, $3 seniors &
children 8-16

1-4 Mon-Fri

16 

Housatonic Museum of Art

Bridgeport
203-332-5052


1

DOES NOT APPLY

Robbin Zella

Director

15,500

Collections of Rodin, Picasso,
Matisse, Miro, Chagall, artifacts

Free

8:30-5:30 weekdays; til 7 Thurs; 9-3 Sat; 12-4 Sun

1

1 

International Festival of Arts & Ideas

New Haven
888-278-4332

12

DOES NOT APPLY

Mary Miller

Festival director

100,000

Annual celebration of artists & thinkers
from around the world

85% free
15% ticketed

June 10-25, 2005

14

10 

Knights of Columbus Museum

New Haven
203-865-0400

14

DOES NOT APPLY

Lawrence Sowinski

Museum director

47,000

Museum of history & art w/collections & exhibitions history of the Knights of Columbus

Free

10-5 Wed-Sat, 11-5 Sun Sept-Apr, 10-5 daily sum.

20

19 

New Haven Colony Historical Society

New Haven
203-562-4183

5

DOES NOT APPLY

Peter Lamothe

Executive director

12,000

Exhibits chronicle New Haven history to the present, research library

$4 adults, $3 seniors,
$2 children 6-16

10-5 Tues-Fri, 12-5 Sat, closed Sun-Mon

6t

7 

New Haven Symphony Orchestra

New Haven
203-865-0831

6

DOES NOT APPLY

Jim Morley

President

85,000

Fourth oldest symphony in U.S., performs at Yale’s Woolsey Hall & other CT venues

$10-$58

Year round

15

11 

Orchestra New England

New Haven
203-227-7674

2

DOES NOT APPLY

Joe Russo

Executive director

30,000

Chamber/small orchestra performs at
Yale’s Battell Chapel & other venues

$15-$30
$5-$7 students

Nov-May

22 

Osborne Homestead Museum

Derby
203-734-2513

6

DOES NOT APPLY

Diane Chisnall Joy

director

2,000

Colonial revival home depicting life & times of Frances Osborne Kellogg

Donations

10-3 Thu-Fri, 10-4 Sat,
12-4 Sun

23 

Peters Railroad Museum

Wallingford
203-269-1788

2

DOES NOT APPLY

David Peters

Owner

600

More than 100,000 pieces of
railroad memorabilia

Free

By appointment

17

14 

Shore Line Trolley Museum

East Haven
203-467-6927

1

DOES NOT APPLY

George Boucher

General manager

20,000

Oldest continuously operating suburban
trolley line, displays of vintage trolley cars

$6 adults, $5 seniors,
$3 children 2-15

10:30-4:30 Mem-Labor Day wknds April, Sept, Oct

18

15 

Yale Univ. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

New Haven
203-432-2977

70

DOES NOT APPLY

Frank M. Turner

Director

17,500

Books, manuscripts, Gutenberg Bible,
Audubon bird prints, sculpture garden

Free

8:30-8 Mon-Thurs, til 5 Fri., 10-5 Sat

NR

20 

Military Historians Headquarters Museum

Westbrook
860-399-9460

0

DOES NOT APPLY

Bill Reid

Director

10,000

Largest collection of military uniforms in the U.S., research & reference library

Free

8-4 Tue-Fri,
evenings & weekends by appt.
closed Mon

NR

24t 

Yale Collection of Musical Instruments1

New Haven
203-432-0822

3

DOES NOT APPLY

Richard Rephann

Director

N/A

Nearly 1,000 early & modern instruments,
European & American

$2