The Mark Twain House & Museum
351 Farmington Avenue
Hartford, CT 06105

For Visitor Information, call (860) 247-0998

Open year round • Free parking • Air-conditioned

In addition to tours of Mark Twain's home, The Mark Twain House & Museum offers a wide range of educational programs including lectures by major authors and artists, symposia, dramatic performances, concerts and "family friendly" activities.

Community programs are made possible with the generous support of United Technologies Corporation.

The Mark Twain House & Museum is supported, in part, by the Greater Hartford Arts Council's United Arts campaign.

To request a free brochure, please e-mail your complete street address to info@MarkTwainHouse.org

Hours of Operation:

• Open Monday through Saturday 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
• Open Sunday 12 - 5:30 p.m.
• Closed Tuesdays January - March.
• Closed January 1, Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving, and December 24 and 25 and 4th of July.
• Visitors should allow minimum of 2 hours for tour and Museum Center.

Admission is by guided tour only. To purchase tickets, enter through the Museum Center adjacent to the main parking lot. Please allow a minimum of 2 hours to complete the tour of the house and to visit the Museum Center. Visitors should be able to negotiate three flights of stairs for the complete tour of the Mark Twain House.

The first floor of The Mark Twain House is wheelchair accessible. Visitors must be able to negotiate 3 flights of stairs for the complete tour. The Museum center is fully handicapped accessible. To arrange tours for visitors with special needs, call (860) 247-0998, ext. 130. For directions to the museum's wheelchair accessible parking lot, click here.

The Mark Twain Museum Store is easily accessible from the main entrance of the museum center. Paid admission to the museum is not necessary to shop during museum business hours. You will find exclusive products available only through The Mark Twain House & Museum, in addition to unique gifts for your friends and family. Your purchases support the education programs and on-going preservation of this National Historic Landmark.

Tallulah's at the Mark Twain café is located on the same floor as the changing exhibition hall with access to a beautiful fieldstone terrace overlooking the historic carriage house. The menu offers an assortment of daily fresh entrees, sandwiches, wraps, salads, soup, desserts, snacks and drinks. The café is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Saturday and Sunday 12 - 4 p.m. There is seating for 60 indoors and 40 outside on the terrace, weather permitting. Paid admission to the museum is not necessary to dine in the cafe.

The kitchen and servants wing provides visitors with a richer experience and a deeper understanding of the life of Sam and Livy Clemens during a period when they were financially secure and able to have a very active social life. Walls, cabinets, sinks, a dumb-waiter and other Victorian kitchen necessities have been reconstructed, allowing visitors to experience the rooms as Clemens servants did.

Because of the narrower working spaces in the kitchen, tours of the kitchen wing are limited to 10 persons at a time and are separate from the tour of the rest of the house. Tickets for a kitchen wing tour are available for an additional $3 fee if purchased with a tour of the house. For individuals who have visited the house in the past, tickets for a kitchen wing tour only are $5 for adults and $3 for children.

Special rates are available for pre-arranged adult group and student tours. A minimum of 10 persons is required to receive the adult group or student tour discount. Reservations are required at least 14 days in advance. Free motor coach parking is available in the museum's lot.

• For adult group tour information or reservations, call Caitlin Thayer at 860-280-3154, or email her at grouptour@marktwainhouse.org
• For student group tour information or reservations, call Patrick Burgess at 860-280-3130 or email him at patrick.burgess@marktwainhouse.org

Holiday Hours

• Closed on January 1st, Easter Sunday, July 4th, Thanksgiving Day, December 24 & 25
• Open Veterans Day and the "Monday holidays" (including Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Columbus Day)

For directions, map and driving distances, click here