Guided 90 Minute Tour: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
2019-04-03 12:00 - 2019-11-17 13:30 (America/New_York) | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States
Enjoy a memorable experience at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum on the Extended Tour. At 90 minutes, the Extended Tour includes the majestic first floor of the Mansion and the award-winning Servants’ Quarters in addition to the Mansion’s second floor bedroom suites and family room.
Please arrive 15 minutes prior to the start time of your tour, as they start promptly on the hour.

Opening Reception - Exhibit: Historic Grounds & Modern Gardens
2019-04-11 17:30 - 19:30 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States
The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will host an opening reception on April 11, 5:30-7:30 p.m. for the juried exhibition entitled, Historic Grounds & Modern Gardens.
The exhibition has been juried by artist and Trustee Gail Ingis and will feature more than fifteen artists including: Anna Badini, Cindy Bernier, Christopher Breining, Harold Davis, Richard Koleszar, Kara LaFrance, Laura Levine, Werner Liepolt, Maya Santangelo, Anthony Santomauro, Marjorie Sopkin, Lee Skalkos, Clarice Shirvell, Jayson Tobias, Christopher Virtuoso, Maxwell Wiesen, and Gregory Ziebell.
Image: Richard Koleszar, Amber Bridge, oil, 32 x 25

Opening Reception - Exhibit: From Corsets: Victorian Women Trailblazers
2019-05-16 17:30 - 19:30 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States
The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will host an opening reception on Thursday, May 16 for the exhibition, From Corsets to Suffrage: Victorian Women Trailblazers, that honors the centennial of the 19th amendment, which passed in Congress on June 4, 1919 and was ratified on August 18, 1920.
Admission: $5 for members, $10 for non-members

"Fashioning Women's Suffrage" - Tea & Lecture by Heather Munro Prescott
2019-05-19 14:00 - 16:00 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States
On Sunday, May 19, 2-4 p.m., the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will host a lecture featuring Dr. Heather Munro Prescott, Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University. The lecture entitled, “Fashioning Women’s Suffrage,” will discuss how suffragists used dress and other outward symbols to promote their cause. Dr. Heather Munro Prescott received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Science & Technology Studies from Cornell University. In 1994, she joined the faculty at CCSU, and has served as co-coordinator of Women’s Studies (1995-99) and chair of the history department (1999-2002). Iced tea and light refreshments will be offered in the Mansion’s Billiards Room prior to this fascinating presentation.
Admission: $10 for members, $15 for non-members
Photo captions: 1. Suffrage News Girls, Liz Freeman, ca. 1910-15, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; 2. Dr. Heather Munro Prescott, Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University.

Treasure Hunters' Adventure
2019-06-02 14:00 - 16:00 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States
The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will launch a Treasure Hunters’ Adventure in collaboration with the Center for Contemporary Printmaking and Stepping Stones Museum for Children, which will take place throughout Mathews Park. In this park-wide, family-fun adventure, participants are tasked with solving the mystery of a long lost treasure. Using an old faded map as a guide, treasure hunters will need to complete activities, answer questions, and solve puzzles to unlock the escalating levels of the game outside of all three buildings, and leading participants to the endgame inside the Mansion. Prizes will be awarded to those who complete this important mission!
Treasure hunters will be able to play alone or as a team, while all contestants will need to bring their skills, power of observation, talent, and A-Game to find the treasure! Recommended for ages 6 and up.
Tickets will also be available at the door on the day of the event.

Members-Only: Sneak Peek of the Mansion’s New Exhibit
2019-07-10 17:30 - 19:00 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States
If you are a Member of the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, join us for this exclusive and complimentary talk on the making of the exhibit, From Corsets to Suffrage: Victorian Women Trailblazers, with Curator Kathleen Motes Bennewitz on Wed., July 10, 2019 at 5:30 p.m. We invite you to take advantage of this unique opportunity to explore the suffrage movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries, with an in-depth look at treasured family heirlooms of suffragists. Light refreshments. Space is limited and offered to Members only on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please RSVP by Fri., June 28, 2019.
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Guided 90 Minute Tour: 2:00pm - 3:30pm
2019-08-01 14:00 - 2019-11-17 15:30 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States

Guided 45 Minute Tour: 3:00pm - 3:45pm
2019-08-01 15:00 - 2019-11-17 15:45 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States
Enjoy the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum on the newly updated Tour. At 45 minutes, the Tour includes the majestic first floor of the Mansion and the award-winning Servants’ Quarters.
Please arrive 15 minutes prior to the start time of your tour, as they start promptly on the hour.

Suffrage Exhibit Guided 45 Minute Tour: 1:00pm - 1:45pm
2019-08-02 13:00 - 2019-11-01 13:45 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States
Enjoy the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum’s Exclusive Tour that focuses on the new exhibition, From Corsets to Suffrage: Victorian Women Trailblazers, highlighting local, regional, and national efforts for women’s suffrage and featuring rare images, objects, memorabilia, and period costumes that illustrate the activities and contributions of women and men across the state and the country. At 45 minutes, the Exhibit Tour includes the majestic first floor Period Rooms.
Please arrive 15 minutes prior to the start time of your tour, as they start promptly on the hour.

Women in Office & the 19th Amendment: Tea & Talk by CT's Secretary of State Denise W. Merrill
2019-09-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States
Celebrating the historic centennial of women’s suffrage and the growing presence of women in public office, both locally and nationally, the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will feature a talk entitled, Women in Office and the 19th Amendment, by Connecticut’s Secretary of the State Denise W. Merrill.
This talk will discuss her inspiring story and challenges she encountered along the way; underrepresentation and how it affects women and women’s rights; voter turnout and where women stand, from millennials to retirees. Secretary Merrill will also address current and future plans to celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment. Secretary Merrill’s talk will be followed by a self-guided tour of the museum’s featured exhibition, From Corsets to Suffrage: Victorian Women Trailblazers, as well as tea and light refreshments.
Denise W. Merrill was elected to her third term as Connecticut’s 73rd Secretary of the State on November 6, 2018. As Connecticut’s chief elections official and business registrar, Merrill has focused on modernizing Connecticut’s elections, business services and improving access to public records.
Secretary Merrill is focused on ensuring that every eligible person in Connecticut can easily register to vote, and that every registered voter can conveniently vote. She was elected president of the National Association of Secretaries of State for the 2016-17 term and serves on the Board of Advisors to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
Secretary Merrill also launched an award-winning online business startup tool to help entrepreneurs navigate through various state and federal agencies. First elected to the General Assembly in 1994, Merrill rose to the rank of House Majority Leader from 2009-2011. She also served as the House Chair of the budget writing Appropriations Committee from 2005-2009, as vice-chair of the Education Committee from 1994-1999 and as a member of the Government Administration and Elections Committee from 1995-1997.
Secretary Merrill is a graduate of the University of Connecticut, is licensed to practice law in the state of California, and is a classically trained pianist. She lives in Hartford. Her family includes husband Dr. Stephen Leach and his two sons, her three grown children and five grandchildren.
The talk is sponsored in part by the Connecticut Bar Association.

Members-Only: Private Tour with the Executive Director
2019-10-01 17:30 - 19:00 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States
A rare sneak peek of the Mansion’s off-limits areas and a conversation with Executive Director Susan Gilgore that will include interesting information about future activities on Tues., Oct. 1, 2019 at 5:30 p.m. This complimentary event will feature a private, behind-the-scenes tour of the Museum led by Dr. Gilgore and light refreshments. Space is limited and offered to Circle Friend Members and above only on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please RSVP by Mon., Sept. 2, 2019.
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Roaring Twenties Gala
2019-10-05 19:00 - 23:00 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States
A decade of great uproar and extraordinary changes that included the 19th amendment, economic prosperity, Jazz-age, flappers, and the prohibition, to name a few, will be featured at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum’s Roaring Twenties Gala.
Cocktails ~ DinnerBlack Tie or Period Attire
Honoring Trustee Port Draper
Featuring A Special Theater Performance by Play With Your Food and the exhibits From Corsets to Suffrage: Victorian Women Trailblazers & The Trained Eye: The Art of Railroads & Stations Preview
Reserve Early ~ Limited SeatingRotunda Seating [ SOLD OUT ]Single Tickets: $250 ~ Tables of 8: $2,000Adjoining Room SeatingSingle Tickets: $200 ~ Tables of 6: $1,200

2019 Gala Distinguished Benefactors: Fairfield County Bank
2019 Gala Sustainers: Moran Towing, Brookfield Properties
2019 Gala Media Sponsor: Moffly Media
2019 Gala Graphic Design Sponsor: Miggs B Design
2019 Gala Floral Design Sponsor: Ineke Van Wijngaarden Floral Design
Gala Performance in collaboration with Play With Your Food

Opening Reception - The Trained Eye: The Art of Railroads & Stations
2019-10-17 17:30 - 19:30 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States
The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will host an opening reception on Thursday, October 17 for the new contemporary art exhibition, The Trained Eye: The Art of Railroads and Stations.
A subject matter explored by some of the great artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Claude Monet, Edward Hopper, and Camille Pissarro, railroads and stations are familiar places that continue to inspire contemporary artists and impact society and the environment.
Curated by artist and Trustee Gail Ingis and Trustee Julyen Norman, the exhibition will feature artists: David Bravo, David Dunlop, Julie O’Connor, DeAnn Prosia, Helen Roman, Alexsander Rotner, Cathy Russell, Anthony Santomauro, Norm Siegel, and Rob Zuckerman.
Image: Norm Siegel, “New Lots Local, 1972,” oil on canvas

Halloween Tour - Haunted: Victorian Ghost Stories at the Mansion
2019-10-18 17:30 - 2019-10-27 21:00 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States
Tour times: 5:30 p.m., *New!* 6:00 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., & 8:00 p.m.
Victorians were known for their riveting ghost stories and Gothic horror. From Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Body Snatcher to Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost, readers in the 19th century were deeply engrossed in dark tales from the other side. In keeping with this Victorian fascination with unexplained phenomena, the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum’s Halloween tours will focus on ghost sightings as they relate to the house during the 19th century as well as its more recent history, and the compelling ghost stories that are part of Connecticut’s legends.
Visitors may run into the Mansion’s ghosts, who are haunted by the darker memories that are part of the rarely told history of the Lockwood and Mathews families. These ghosts will wander throughout the Mansion, but only during our very special and spooky Halloween tours. Children under 16 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
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Photo courtesy of Gus Apazidis

Great Gatsby Tea
2019-11-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States
The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum’s Great Gatsby Tea will be a luxurious whirlwind of delicious refreshments that will immerse our guests into the grand and extravagant era of Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s dashing and daring anti-hero.
The event, chaired by LMMM Trustee Hunter Arton will feature a talk entitled, Fashion for a New Era: Clothing the Modern Woman, by Barnum Curator and Clothing Historian Adrienne Saint-Pierre. Come experience this memorable teatime, with a menu worthy of the Great Gatsby.
Women’s clothing styles were transformed in the 1910s and 20s by the need—and desire—for more practical garments than those worn in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. More women were entering the workforce, and the impacts of World War I were pervasive, even affecting the fashion and textile industries. Perhaps most intriguing to us today is that this was the era when women’s voices were finally heard and the cause for suffrage won its long-fought battle. Join us for a fascinating look at what women wore and why, from everyday togs to the most glamorous gowns. Ms. Saint-Pierre will present an illustrated talk about fashion of the teens and twenties and how it defined “the modern woman.”
Photo credit: Detail of Film star and “flapper” icon Mary Louise Brooks poses in a satin dress and fur-trimmed velvet coat, 1927, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

12:00 p.m. Holiday Exhibit Tour: Toys, Trains, and Magnificent Trees
2019-11-20 12:00 - 2020-01-05 13:00 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States
The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum kicks off the Holiday Season with a new exhibition entitled, Toys, Trains and Magnificent Trees: Illuminating Christmas at the Mansion.
The exhibit, curated by Trustee Mimi Findlay and the LMMM Curatorial Committee will capture the enchantment of the holiday season, with glamorous tree displays, while paying special tribute to the sesquicentennial of the Transcontinental Railroad. Toy trains will be displayed under the tree in the Museum’s Library to mark the railroad’s anniversary and highlight LeGrand Lockwood‘s invention known as the Palace Car. Vintage toy trains on display are from the LMMM Permanent Collection as well as on loan from the Wilton Historical Society.
The Mansion will also feature 21st century holiday decorations with magnificent trees and seasonal displays by renowned interior designer Victoria Vandamm of Vandamm Interiors and award-winning Trudy Dujardin of Dujardin Design Associates, Inc. The Herter Brothers’ grand Victorian staircase will be adorned by silk floral designer Danna DiElsi, owner of The Silk Touch.

1:00 p.m. Holiday Exhibit Tour: Toys, Trains, and Magnificent Trees
2019-11-20 13:00 - 2020-01-05 14:00 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States

2:00 p.m. Holiday Exhibit Tour: Toys, Trains, and Magnificent Trees
2019-11-20 14:00 - 2020-01-05 15:00 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States

3:00 p.m. Holiday Exhibit Tour: Toys, Trains, and Magnificent Trees
2019-11-20 15:00 - 2020-01-05 16:00 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States

12:30 p.m. Holiday Exhibit Tour: Toys, Trains, and Magnificent Trees
2019-11-27 12:30 - 2020-01-05 13:30 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States

1:30 p.m. Holiday Exhibit Tour: Toys, Trains, and Magnificent Trees
2019-11-27 13:30 - 2020-01-05 14:30 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States

2:30 p.m. Holiday Exhibit Tour: Toys, Trains, and Magnificent Trees
2019-11-27 14:30 - 2020-01-05 15:30 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States

"'The Work Must Be Done': Women of Color & The Right to Vote" by the Connecticut Historical Society
2020-06-11 17:30 - 18:30 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States
As the nation, and Connecticut, prepare to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment which legalized women’s right to vote, attention is growing about the critical need to identify and raise up the stories of the women of color who participated in the fight for suffrage and those who, like their white counterparts, were against the enfranchisement of women. Historically, research about the fight to win the right to vote has focused on the white women who were both for and against this act. Due to the internalized racism of many of the national and state-wide suffrage organizations, women of color, and particularly African American women, were denied agency within these activist organizations. This does not mean that women of color were not involved in the fight for and against suffrage. They absolutely were. Women of color were active leaders who developed their own associations, both nationwide and state-based, to achieve social and political reforms, including working for woman suffrage.
Ilene Frank, Chief Curator, and Karen Li Miller, Research Historian at the Connecticut Historical Society with Professor Brittney Yancy, Goodwin College, will present new research about Connecticut’s women of color who were involved in the woman suffrage movement, such as Mary Townsend Seymour, Rose Payton, Minnie Glover, Daisy Daniels, and others. The program will include conversation on the importance of having a history that is inclusive and participants will examine how this history ties into current civic issues around voting.
Funding for this project is made possible by the State of Connecticut and the National Endowment for the Humanities, both of which provide significant support to Connecticut Humanities.
Admission:
Free or $5 suggested donation. Please consider making a donation to the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum to support its virtual educational and cultural programs during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Image credit: Colored Women’s Business League Broadside, 1921. Connecticut Historical Society Collection

A Virtual Talk on American Impressionist Mary Rogers Williams
2020-07-12 14:00 - 15:00 | CT
A Virtual Talk on American Impressionist Mary Rogers Williams by Author & Scholar Eve Kahn

Revolutionary artist Mary Rogers Williams (1857—1907), a baker’s daughter from Hartford, Connecticut, biked and hiked from the Arctic Circle to Naples, exhibited from Paris to Indianapolis, trained at the Art Students League, chafed against art world rules that favored men, wrote thousands of pages about her travels and work, taught at Smith College for nearly two decades, but sadly ended up almost totally obscure.
The book, Forever Seeing New Beauties, reproduces her unpublished artworks that capture pensive gowned women, Norwegian slopes reflected in icy waters, saw-tooth rooflines on French chateaus, and incense hazes in Italian chapels, and it offers a vivid portrayal of an adventurer, defying her era’s expectations.
Author Eve M. Kahn is an independent scholar specializing in art and architectural history, design and preservation, and was weekly Antiques columnist at The New York Times, 2008—2016. She contributes regularly to the Times, The Magazine Antiques, Apollo, and Atlas Obscura.

Photo Credits: Waterford: Early Morning—Waterford (also called Aurore and Morning Waterford), 1897 pastel, 5½ x 7 in. Mary’s view of theConnecticut shoreline hamlet where her artist friend
Henry Cooke White lived, and long preserved her artworks and archives. Eve M. Kahn collection and
Eve Kahn photo courtesy of Katherine Lanza

Guided 45 Minute Tour: 12:00pm - 12:45pm
2020-07-29 12:00 - 12:45, 2020-08-01 12:00 - 12:45, 2020-08-02 12:00 - 12:45 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States
Enjoy the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum on a Guided Tour. At 45 minutes, the Tour includes the majestic first floor of the Mansion.

Guided 45 Minute Tour: 2:00pm - 2:45pm
2020-07-29 14:00 - 14:45, 2020-08-01 14:00 - 14:45, 2020-08-02 14:00 - 14:45 | Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT, 06850, United States
