~ Few Tickets Available ~ Cocktails ~ Dinner Black Tie or Period Attire Honoring Trustee Mimi Findlay Featuring Renowned Author and Contributing Writer, Smithsonian Magazine Tony Perrottet & ~Exhibition Preview~ The Artist’s View: Traveling the Merritt…
We are pleased to announce that we will open our doors free of charge to all Museum Day ticketholders on Saturday, September 22, 2018, 12-4 p.m., as part of Smithsonian Magazine’s 14th annual Museum Day,…
An opening reception will be held on Thursday, July 12, 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. for the exhibition entitled, Collecting in Victorian America: The Great Divide of the Gilded Age. From stereoscopic views, precursors of 3D technology, to reduced…
MEMBERS-ONLY EVENT Collecting in Victorian America: The Great Divide of the Gilded Age Talk & Exhibition Preview with Curator Kathleen Motes Bennewitz – RSVP Required From stereoscopic views, precursors of 3D technology, to reduced casts of…
The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will launch a Scavenger Hunt in collaboration with the Center for Contemporary Printmaking and Stepping Stones Museum for Children. The event will take place throughout Mathews Park. Participants will search for some of the most mysterious symbols, architectural details, objects,…
The Mansion’s Mystery Trunk The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum launches 2018 Young Writers’ Competition The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum is launching its fifth annual writing competition for students attending Fairfield County schools. The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum/Ernest Hemingway/Young…
The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum proudly announces that it has won the most prestigious national award given by the American Association of State and Local History (AASLH), for the exhibit, The Stairs Below: The Mansion’s Domestic…
On Sunday, December 11, 2016, 12-4 p.m. at 295 West Ave., Norwalk, CT the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will collaborate with the Norwalk Public Library, New Canaan Dance Academy, Matthew Surapine Studio, and North Pole’s Santa…
The years 1965-1966 were crucial to the development of the preservation movement in America and the victories scored fifty years ago still inform preservation today. This was the era of the federal Historic Preservation Act,…
Victorian Tea is SOLD OUT Please call for availability Tea lovers, history buffs, and anyone looking to escape everyday life will thoroughly enjoy attending the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum’s annual Victorian Tea surrounded by the timeless…
The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, in collaboration with The Westport Artist Collective, will present The Westport Artist Collective Explores the Revolutionary Sixties, a group exhibition opening to the public on Oct. 19 through Jan. 8, 2017,…
The National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966 established the regulatory framework for historic preservation in Connecticut. Adapted from Western European precedent and tailored to American federalism, NHPA standardized the identification, registration and treatment of historic resources by funding…
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