First Sunday Family Program




When:
January 3, 2016 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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Where:
Hill-Stead Museum
35 Mountain Rd
Farmington, CT 06032
USA
Contact:
(860) 677-4787

On the first Sunday of every month, children’s art projects begin at 1 pm and self-guided tours run from 1 – 4 pm.  Browse the collection at your own pace and engage in the ever-popular scavenger hunt challenge.  Romp in Hill-Stead’s own natural playground of hiking trails, gardens and walking paths.  Purchase a treasure in our Museum Shop stocked with adorable toys and children’s books.

Free with museum membership or admission.

Hill-Stead is noted for its 1901 33,000-square-foot house filled with art and antiques. Pioneering female architect Theodate Pope Riddle designed the Colonial Revival-style house, set on 152 hilltop acres, to showcase the Impressionist masterpieces amassed by her father, Cleveland iron industrialist Alfred A. Pope. Collections in 19 intact rooms include original furnishings, paintings by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, James M. Whistler and Mary Cassatt, as well as numerous works on paper and Japanese woodblock prints. Stately trees, seasonal gardens, over three miles of stone walls and woodland trails accent the grounds. A centerpiece of the property is the c. 1920 sunken garden designed by landscape architect Beatrix Jones Farrand, today the site of the acclaimed summerlong Sunken Garden Poetry and Music Festival.