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Museums

5 adventures tagged Museums.

Day Adventures

Groton & Mystic, CT

Day Adventure: Groton & Mystic

A real nuclear submarine (free), lunch by a drawbridge that performs on the hour, the best ice cream timing trick in Connecticut, and a bookstore with goats on the way home. The eastern cluster, assembled.

🚗 About 1 hr 10 min to Groton🥾 Easy; the sub has ladders and tight hatches★★★★★

Museums

Groton, CT

Submarine Force Museum & USS Nautilus

You walk through an actual nuclear submarine. The first one ever built, the one that went under the North Pole. It's free. I don't know what else you need to hear.

🚗 About 1 hr 5 min🥾 Easy; the sub itself has ladders, hatches, and tight passages★★★★★

Museums

Orange, CT

PEZ Visitor Center

The PEZ factory is in Orange, Connecticut, fifteen minutes from home, and you can watch the candy get made under the world's largest collection of dispensers. This is not a drill.

🚗 About 15 min🥾 Easy, one big indoor space★★★★★

State Parks

Rocky Hill, CT

Dinosaur State Park

Two hundred million year old dinosaur tracks, in the rock, under a dome, and you can cast your own to take home if you bring the supplies. The real half of Connecticut's dinosaur pair.

🚗 About 45 min🥾 Easy; the dome is indoors, trails are flat★★★★★

Museums

Cheshire, CT

Barker Character, Comic & Cartoon Museum

A museum in Cheshire stuffed floor to ceiling with cartoon history: PEZ dispensers, lunchboxes, California Raisins, and every character your kids' grandparents grew up on. The ultimate rainy-day wildcard.

🚗 About 25 min🥾 Easy, indoors, one building★★★★☆