Press Room Photo Gallery

For a special event, members of the Hartford Children's Theatre portrayed Mark Twain's daughters and their friends.

The Mark Twain Museum Center. Credit: John Groo for The Mark Twain House & Museum

Mark Twain in 1907. Credit: The Mark Twain House & Museum

The Mark Twain House -- The Billiard Room. Credit: John Groo for The Mark Twain House & Museum

The Mark Twain House -- The Clemens family on the porch, 1885. Credit: The Mark Twain House & Museum

The Mark Twain House in Hartford, Conn., visited by 60,000 people yearly. Credit: John Groo for The Mark Twain House & Museum

The Mark Twain House -- The Dining Room. Credit: John Groo for The Mark Twain House & Museum

The Mark Twain House -- The Conservatory. Credit: John Groo for The Mark Twain House & Museum

Murasaki Cafe at the Mark Twain House offers American and Japanese fare, including the Nageyaki noodles shown and a Mark Twain Burger. Open Mon-Sat, 11 to 4; closed Tuesdays January-March.

Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours remain a popular feature at The Mark Twain House & Museum!

Our new book on the Mark Twain House, The Loveliest Home That Ever Was, is now available.

Denis Horgan speaks and reads at The Mark Twain House & Museum on Wed., Feb.8, 5 p.m.

Susan Schoenberger offers an afternoon novel writing workshop on Saturday, March 3

Lary Bloom (above) and Suzanne Levine offer A Class in Memoir March 7 - April 25

Suzanne Levine (above) and Lary Bloom offer A Class in Memoir March 7-April 25.

Legendary editor Lewis Lapham will give the keynote address for our Writers' Weekend, April 20-21.

Dana Lauren sings at our Valentine's Sunday Jazz Brunch on February 12.

Huck Finn and the slave Jim, iconic images of the American racial story. 'A Sound Heart & a Deformed Conscience,' our exhibit on Mark Twain and Africans Americans, opens Feb. 25.

A sign of America's past -- and present? 'Hateful Things,' an exhibit of racist objects highlighting a terrible national failing, opens March 29.

Denis Horgan speaks and reads from his short story collection Ninety-Eight Point Six at The Mark Twain House & Museum on Wed., Feb.8, 5 p.m.

A Love-Chase was performed by Mark Twain's daughters and friends in 1889 in the drawing room. It returns -- in the same spot, with Hartford Children's Theatre actors -- Feb. 9 and 10.