In collaboration with Fairfield Museum and History Center at 370 Beach Road, Fairfield, CT, the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will present The Mansion’s Gilded Age Tea on Sunday, May 19, 2024, 2-4 p.m. Co-chaired by LMMM…
Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will kick-off its 2024 Lecture Series with “Grand & Standing: Iconic 19th Century Hotels” featuring Deidre Dinnigan, a renowned archivist who has worked for the Waldorf Astoria and Plaza Hotels as well…
Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will present a panel discussion titled, “Baseball: Stories & History of America’s Favorite Pastime,” featuring legendary NY Mets player and 1989 Gold Glove Award winner, Ron Darling; esteemed journalist, author, and public…
Ulysses Grant Dietz will discuss his book titled, “Growing Up Grant: A Gay Life in the Shadow of Ulysses S. Grant”. He grew up Grant because Ulysses was too dangerous a name to call a…
Sean Sawyer, President of The Olana Partnership, will discuss how Church engaged with the emerging field of ecology, first in his tutelage with Thomas Cole and by literally following in Humboldt’s footsteps in his meteoric…
Independent scholar Eve M. Kahn will explore the legacy of Gilded Age author and reformer Zoe Anderson Norris (1860-1914). Writer and publisher of the bimonthly magazine “The East Side,” Norris focused on New York’s immigrants…
The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will feature a Holiday Open House with Santa Claus and a special musical performance featuring Music Theatre of Connecticut’s School of Performing Arts. Visitors will also have an opportunity to view…
This event will be a luxurious whirlwind of delicious refreshments that will immerse our guests in the history of the Mansion, the current exhibitions on view, and a fascinating talk by award-winning scholar and author…
Free admission, $5 suggested donation – Click here to RSVP The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will open a new exhibition titled, Hues of Freedom, on Thurs. Oct. 20, 2022, with a reception on Thurs. Oct. 27, 5:30-7:30 p.m. The exhibition, curated by Artist…
Talking to the dead, ghost sightings, and spiritualism were pervasive in 19th century America, and will be unearthed, once again, at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum with the riveting and chilling, “Ghosts, Seances & the Great…
Save the date for the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum’s Speakeasy Gala, which will include a black-tie dinner, notables of the Prohibition era, jazz, games, live and silent auctions, and more…
Complementing the exhibition, “Making It Last: Sustainable Fashion in Victorian America”, this talk by historic textile and costume expert Deborah Kraak explores the exhibition themes in greater detail, through period garments, fashion plates, satirical cartoons,…
