We will be closed the following holidays in 2024:
Thanksgiving Week (11/27 & 11/30)
Christmas/New Years (12/25, 12/28, 1/1
Due to office renovations we will be closed to visitors during January and February of 2025
If you need to come in please call for an appointment, 860 274-1050
Location & Parking
Address
401 Main Street, Watertown, CT
Directions from Route 8:
Get off exit 37 (both South and North)
From South:
Turn right onto Echo Lake Rd
Continue on Echo Lake Rd for about 2 miles
Turn Left onto Buckingham St.
Take immediate next right to continue on Echo Lake Rd
Keep following Echo Lake Rd (keep left at the Y by Echo Craft Kitchen)
At the light, take a right onto Main St
Museum is up the street on your right
From North:
Take sharp left onto CT 262
Continue through intersection onto Echo Lake Rd
Keep following Echo Lake Rd (keep left at the Y by Echo Craft Kitchen)
At the light, take a right onto Main St.
Museum is up the street on your right.
Parking:
Parking is very limited at the Watertown History Museum. However, parking is available at the Methodist Church (305 Main St), or at the old Wells Fargo Bank building (365 Main St).
We have 1 handicapped parking spot near the museum entrance. There is also now a ramp from the parking lot up onto our front porch, making our first floor exhibit spaces handicapped accessible.
OTHER NEWS!!
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2023
Winter (January) 2023 Newsletter
2022
Summer (June) 2022 Newsletter
Winter (January) 2022 Newsletter
2021
Winter (February) 2021 Newsletter
2020
Summer (August) 2020 Newsletter
Spring (April) 2020 Newsletter