Collections & Donating to the Danbury Museum

The Danbury Museum has been collecting Danbury’s important material culture, ephemera, and photographs for more than 80 years and as we look to the future and our stewardship responsibilities, we’re taking a temporary pause to consider our what, how, and why. To that end, and after much thoughtful discussion, we are temporarily halting collecting material culture and 3-D artifacts (including clothing/costume, toys, hats and hatting materials, furniture, etc.) while we evaluate our current collection and assess our immediate and critical storage needs and space concerns. 

In the interim, we will continue to accept donations of archival materials—ephemera (paper artifacts, documents) and photographs.

Some examples of the archival materials we will continue to accept:

 - Documents related to Danbury businesses, history, or family genealogy 

 - Photographs of Danbury people and places

 - Danbury-related advertising cards and postcards

 - Letters, journals, diaries of Danbury people/families

Items we have multiple copies of and are NOT currently collecting:

 - James Montgomery Bailey’s History of Danbury 1684-1896 

 - Pictorial Review of the 1955 Floods (Danbury/ Northern Fairfield County Flood Pictures October 15-16, 1955.)

 - Danbury Tricentennial Committee booklet series

 - Scott-Fanton/Danbury Museum produced calendars

 - Old newspapers—front pages, clippings, articles and commemorative editions

 -Historic magazines (Time, Life, Look as examples) unrelated to Danbury

 - 20th century Danbury City Directories 

 - Danbury Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit Games

**We are collecting WestConn, Immaculate High School, and Henry Abbott Tech yearbooks from all eras and Danbury High School yearbooks after 1980.**