Hill-Stead Museum

Hill-Stead Museum will begin a “Capacity Building Project for Outdoor Programs.” This project will support programs and events that utilize the museum’s designed cultural landscape as the context for learning, exploration, refreshment, and community connection. The culmination of several years of institution-wide efforts to more fully utilize the museum’s exceptional natural resources, the project will contribute to the process of expanding the exhibition and programmatic platform from a focus on the historic Pope-Riddle house and its collections to one that includes the entire historic cultural landscape and builds on the full artistic, literary, and humanitarian legacy of Theodate Pope Riddle. Specific programs will include “Excursions into the Natural World,” an intergenerational nature education program, a new farmer’s market, and the nationally acclaimed Sunken Garden Poetry and Music Festival.