The Mark Twain House & Museum will join museums nationwide in participating in the tenth summer of Blue Star Museums, a program that provides free admission to our nation’s active-duty […]
Read more »2019 Hartford Creative Contest Winner Announced
Winners in the Hartford Creative Composition Contest were honored May 4 at a dinner at the Asylum Hill Congregational Church. Twenty-four students from grades 4-12 read from original essays, poems, […]
Read more »Free Tours From April through June for Hartford Residents
The Mark Twain House & Museum announces a special, limited-time opportunity for residents of the City of Hartford: daily free tours of the Twain House. From April 1 through June […]
Read more »Author David Baldacci at The Mark Twain House May 16
The Mark Twain House & Museum presents author and Twain House trustee David Baldacci, who will talk about his new thriller, Redemption. This Mark My Words event takes place on Thursday, May 16, at […]
Read more »“Twain’s Attic” Exhibition Opens March 21
Please join us Thursday, March 21, 5:30 p.m., for the opening of Twain’s Attic, Ninety Years, Ninety Treasures, a new exhibition at The Mark Twain House & Museum, celebrating the 90th anniversary of […]
Read more »Strategic Plan, New Board Members, Volunteers Honored at 2019 Annual Meeting
The Mark Twain House & Museum board of trustees approved a three-year strategic plan, welcomed a new board member and honored funders and volunteers at its annual meeting on Thursday, […]
Read more »Anna Schofer Joins Mark Twain House as Development Associate
Anna Schofer has joined The Mark Twain House & Museum staff as our new Development Associate. She will be responsible for all donor database management, correspondence, and communication with donors […]
Read more »Mark Twain House Recipient of NEH Grant
The Mark Twain House & Museum has been awarded a Preservation Assistance Grant for $1,690 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to assess 26 objects in the museum’s collection. The […]
Read more »Mark Twain House Returns as a Sponsor of the Hartford Creative Contest
The Mark Twain House & Museum is again sponsoring the Hartford Creative Contest in 2019. 2019 is the fourth year of the contest. The contest offers Hartford students in grades […]
Read more »Hartford’s Poet Laureate to give Youth Writing Workshop December 28
Frederick-Douglass Knowles II, Hartford’s first poet laureate and an associate professor of English at Three Rivers Community College in Norwich, will be offering two youth creative writing workshops at The […]
Read more »Carriage House Restoration Underway
Restoration work is underway on the exterior of Mark Twain’s Carriage House. To ensure the preservation of this historic building, the museum is having repairs done to its roof and […]
Read more »Gilded Age Twain Tree at Wadsworth Atheneum Festival of Trees
Carol Nicolucci, a Mark Twain House & Museum volunteer, was the head designer of the Mark Twain House Christmas tree included in the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art’s 45th Annual Festival of Trees […]
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