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Old Lyme, Connecticut
location_onAddress
96 Lyme St, Old Lyme, CT 06371, USA
scheduleHours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Friday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Sunday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
About
The Florence Griswold Museum is an art museum at 96 Lyme Street in Old Lyme, Connecticut whose centerpiece is the former home of Florence Griswold (1850–1937). The house was once the epicenter of the Old Lyme Art Colony whose members (many of whom were Griswold's boarders) played an
important role in the development of American Impressionism. The museum is noteworthy for its collection of American Impressionist paintings and a 12-acre site that includes contemporary and historic buildings, garde
Exhibitions
Cow Tales
Lyme Artists Abroad
Thistles and Crowns: The Painted Chests of the Connecticut Shore
Art of the Everyman: American Folk Art from the Fenimore Art Museum
Life Stories in Art: Three American Women Artists in Connecticut
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920
All the Sea Knows: Marine Art from the Museum of the City of New York
The Artist in the Connecticut Landscape
Ten/Forty: Collecting American Art at the Florence Griswold Museum
In Place: Contemporary Photographers Envision a Museum
Flora/Fauna: The Naturalist Impulse in American Art
On the Front Lines: Three Reflections on Identity
Pen to Paper: Artists’ Handwritten Letters from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art
Art and the New England Farm
Paper Trail: American Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors
Fragile Earth: The Naturalist Impulse in Contemporary Art
Fresh Fields: American Impressionist Landscapes from the Florence Griswold Museum
Expanding Horizons: Celebrating 20 Years of the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection
Centennial of the Lyme Art Association Gallery
Revisiting America: The Prints of Currier & Ives
New London County Quilts & Bed Covers, 1750‒1825
Object Lessons in American Art: Selections from the Princeton University Art Museum
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