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Welcome to Danbury's #MuseumFromHome

Tricentennial pamphlets + Bailey's History of Danbury

History of Fairfield Co, Danbury segment. (pdf)

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Bailey's History of Danbury (pdf)

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Three Hundred Years of Change & Growth (Tricentennial Book 1) (pdf)

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The Untold Story: Danbury's Unsung Role in the Revolution (Tricentennial Book 2) (pdf)

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Names and Places: How Danbury Got Some Unusual Ones (Tricentennial Book 3) (pdf)

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How Danbury Got To Be What It Is: Geography and Geology (Tricentennial Book 4) (pdf)

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Two Centuries of Hat Making: Danbury's Famous Trade (Tricentennial Book 5) (pdf)

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#HiddenHistory & #MuseumFromHome Puzzles

April/May Danbury Museum Buzzwords Puzzle (png)

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March Danbury Museum Buzzwords Puzzle (png)

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Spring Cryptogram (March 2021) (JPG)

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December Holiday Cryptogram (jpg)

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December Buzzwords Puzzle (png)

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DM Thanksgiving (pdf)

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October Buzzwords Puzzle (png)

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September 2020 Recipes & Cocktail Inspirations (pdf)

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September Buzzwords Puzzle (jpg)

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Danbury Museum Buzzwords (pdf)

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Danbury Street Name Word Search (pdf)

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Danbury Fair Crossword (pdf)

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Bailey's History Cryptogram (pdf)

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Hatting Terms Word Search (pdf)

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Parks, Ponds & Waterways Word Search (pdf)

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Rev War Word Search (pdf)

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Sybil Ludington Cryptogram (pdf)

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A Tale of Two Cities Cryptogram (pdf)

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Danbury Schools Word Search (pdf)

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Memorials & Monuments Jumble (pdf)

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#DistanceLearning Opportunities

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Danbury Museum & Historical Society, your hometown museum, archive, and history center, is working hard to provide activities and resources for distance learning that, combined with the wonderful social studies curriculum of our regional school districts, supports a fun, context building look at our community past and how it connects us all. 


On this page, we’ve included our beloved Danbury school “newspapers” (created for third graders but appropriate for students through high school!) cursive camp materials and several, family based, suggestions on activities and outside sources to supplement your students social studies curriculum. The materials found here are for you all to enjoy, download and explore, with all the enthusiasm that we know our local students always bring to their museum field trips and museum presentations! We'll add new digital content weekly through the spring for at home use.


If you have any questions, please reach out by emailing b.guertin@danbury-ct.gov

Frontier/Colonial Danbury (pdf)

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Revolutionary War Period in Danbury Student Newsletter (pdf)

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Manufacturing Period in Danbury Student Newsletter (pdf)

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Industrial Period in Danbury Student Newsletter (pdf)

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Danbury in the 20th century (pdf)

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The Great Danbury State Fair (pdf)

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Directions for making ink and parchment paper (pdf)

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2020 Covid-19 time capsule sheets (pdf)

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2020 Year End Highlights

New sign! Thanks to Non-Profit Development Corporation of Greater Danbury. Spring 2020.

Attending virtual AAM Museum conference for the first time!

Taking part in a New England Museum Association Collections workshop via Zoom.

The Fair That John Built outdoor exhibit, summer 2020. 

The Fair exhibit covers 10 panels of our back fenceline. 

1918 Pandemic outdoor exhibit, autumn 2020.

In partnership with the Danbury Library, we installed an outdoor read and walk featuring the story of Johnny Appleseed.

Johnny Appleseed, summer and autumn 2020.

Johnny Appleseed, summer and autumn 2020.

Painting!

The John & Mary Rider House dining room got a fresh coat of paint this summer.

More interior painting at the John & Mary Rider House. 

A refreshed John & Mary Rider House, summer 2020.

The Little Red Schoolhouse is next up on our painting roster. 

The after photo of the front door--looking good!

The schoolhouse shutters are getting a refresh, too. 

Autumn 2020, as long as the wether holds, we'll be painting. The exterior of the Marian Anderson Studio is getting a paint update. 

Getting closer to done...

Even closer!

Thank YOU for your continued support that's allowed us to keep growing and learning and improving. 

2020 in Review

To say that 2020 has presented us all with unprecedented challenges, is an understatement. We, as a staff, though, like to find opportunity within those challenges--so we set to work figuring out ways to keep in touch...while still apart.  Outdoor exhibits, for example. Our fences proved to be *perfect* for outdoor exhibition spaces and we learned a new skillset, installing via zip tie and grommet. 


Being closed to the public also allowed us to catch up on some routine (and much needed) painting in and on our historic buildings. The John & Mary Rider House was fully refreshed on the interior; the Little Red Schoolhouse was painted inside and out; and the Marian Anderson Studio got a beautiful new coat of Hale Navy on the exterior, with a buttery yellow interior. 


The world of Zoom pretty quickly became ubiquitous for us all in 2020. Thanks to the wonders of this technology, though, we were able to attend the AAM (American Alliance of Museums) annual conference, the New England Museum Association (NEMA) annual conference and participate in daily and weekly webinars. 


We're grateful for your continued and much needed support; enjoy the slideshow below showcasing some of our "Year of Covid" successes. We've learned, grown, improved, and so much of it is thanks to your stalwart dedication to us and our mission.


THANK YOU!

Cursive Worksheets

Cursive Letter Guide (pdf)

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Climb 'n' Slide (pdf)

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Loopy Letters (pdf)

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Lumpy Letters (pdf)

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Rockin' Round Letters (pdf)

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Mix and Match (pdf)

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Family Activities

Danbury Museum in the Streets Map (pdf)

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Ives Trail Map (pdf)

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ZOOM backgrounds

Danbury Fair ZOOM background (PNG)

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Danbury Fair postcard ZOOM background (jpg)

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Vintage Danbury at Night ZOOM background (jpg)

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Danbury #MuseumFromHome Newsletters

March 20, 2020 (pdf)

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March 27, 2020 (pdf)

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April 3, 2020 (pdf)

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April 10, 2020 (pdf)

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April 17, 2020 (pdf)

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April 24, 2020 (pdf)

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May 1, 2020 (pdf)

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May 8, 2020 (pdf)

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May 15, 2020 (pdf)

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May 22, 2020 (pdf)

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June 26, 2020 (pdf)

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July 31, 2020 (pdf)

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August 28, 2020 (pdf)

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September 25, 2020 (pdf)

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October 30, 2020 (pdf)

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March 2021 (pdf)

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February 2021 (pdf)

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January 2021 (pdf)

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December 2020 (pdf)

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November 20, 2020 (pdf)

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Documenting COVID-19


At the Danbury Museum, we’ve been collecting and archiving items that document our city’s  past for more than 75 years. Our collection includes several buildings worth of archival materials as well artifacts that tell the tale(s) of our collective past, that inspire and inform the present and that we will be preserving for future scholars, researchers, students and Danburians.


We are currently living through a momentous, somber moment in our collective history. We need your help to document what is going on in your homes, at your jobs, and in communities across Connecticut. We want to hear your story. We want to know how you and your family are experiencing the current pandemic and “new normal.”


Below are examples of what we’re looking for:


Writings - letters, notes, emails, postcards, poems

Signage - images of window signs, directions, posted community information

Photos - of you, your family, your neighborhood, your street, YOUR Danbury!


Drawings, paintings, and other forms of art you’re creating and documenting


Short videos (limited to 500MB file size) for larger files please email to Patrick Wells, Research Specialist at p.wells@danbury-ct.gov.


Please stay safe when documenting these historic times. Do not put yourself in danger when capturing photographs or videos.


Why is this Important?


The Danbury Museum collects material that documents the full range of our lives in Danbury, CT because...you INSPIRE us, you INSPIRE the future. Documenting our community response to COVID-19 is a way to preserve the daily struggles of our stay at home community, our work from home community, our students, our critical care and healthcare workers, our first responders and our essential workers. From every perspective, what you are doing right now matters, to us right now, and to future Danburians.


So, when you email Collections Manager, Michele Lee Amundsen at m.amundsen@danbury-ct.gov or mail us your submissions to 43 Main Street, Danbury, CT 06810, please include any or all of the following information: What else should we know about this object? Please explain who is in the photo, why you created this piece...basically all the information YOU would want to see to give context to a museum exhibition item or an archival file. 


Please know that:

By providing my material to the Danbury Museum & Historical Society Authority (DMHSA) I hereby give the DMHSA a royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sub-licensable license to copy, digitize, reproduce, edit, translate, create derivative works, distribute, and publicly display and perform certain materials described below. I agree that the DMHSA  may add the material to the collection according to the DMHSA Collection Management Policy and to make it available to researchers in a manner consistent with the practices of the DMHSA. I agree that the DMHSA may utilize any medium or media now existing or that will exist in the future to achieve the above-described purposes.


Thank YOU for entrusting the Danbury Museum with your memories, your stories, your art, your images. We take this responsibility seriously and will maintain your gift for future generations so they too may understand what it was like to be here, in Danbury, during the COVID-19 pandemic.


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