Florence Griswold Museum

The Florence Griswold Museum will expand the use of its historic grounds to better serve the region as a community gathering place. Inspired by and taking its name from the open-air common courtyards of ancient Greece, the museum’s Agora Project will more effectively use the riverfront campus as an entry through which visitors can explore the museum’s full range of resources. The museum will design, test, and implement outdoor interpretive tools essential to communicating the site’s historical significance. The museum will use outdoor reading rails positioned where historic paintings were made, sites where important events of the Lyme Art Colony happened, and a portable learning cart equipped with educational materials and technological resources that will prompt learning and inspire creativity outdoors.