The Mill Museum

Keeping you up to date on all things related to The Windham History and Textile Museum. We are also a visitor's center!

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Need a place to rent for your holiday celebrations, meetings or other special events? The Mill Museum has multiple rooms available for any need! We have the space for you! Contact us at [email protected] to find out more!

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Coming up this weekend is our Holiday Shop! Our power is back on and ready to light up our favorite holiday event! Please join us in Dugan's building on Union Street for this event!

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Emergency Post! The Mill Museum will be closed today due to a car accident that took out our power. We have no estimation on when power will be restored, so please post pone your visit until next weekend! Spread the word!

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Have you ever wanted to be a member of the Mill Museum? Join us on Black Friday, 11/26, & receive $5 off a new membership. Already a member? Stop by & receive a $5 coupon for the Gift Shop! Coupons good until 12/21.
Find out more about our membership here: https://t.co/dFsgFNycsp

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November 27th at 7pm is our Live Virtual Gala on our Traditions, Trees and Tiny Treasures exhibit! Join us for an interview of the artist, Glenn Martineau, a tour of our newest exhibit and more!
Sign up at https://t.co/v4JIZN2LEb
Don't miss out on this special exhibit gala!

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Our next exhibit is almost ready for it's grand opening! Come see our "Trees, Traditions and Tiny Treasures" in person next weekend or attend our Virtual Gala on 11/27 7pm. Our Gala will include an interview with the artist & more! Sign up here: https://t.co/v4JIZN2LEb

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Check out the Mill of the Month! Today they viewed the Stanley Steamer at the Yantic Fire Station. After the mill burnt down in 1865, the factory invested in a fire house and top-of-the-line fire fighting equipment. Keep an eye out for next month's Mill of the Month!

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On November 13 Mill of the Month travels to Yantic, Norwich. Explore this area and its stories the Mill Museum’s Educational Director. Meet at 10 a.m. at Yantic Mill off Rte. 32 at the junction of Chapel Hill and Yantic Roads. Bring $10 cash. No pre-registration necessary.

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How woolen yarn and thread was made before the Industrial Revolution. #MillMuseumofCT

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Because of COVID, Willimantic, CT had to cancel its annual Victorian Days celebration and Home Tour. But you can enjoy a virtual tour here: https://t.co/M5YqF8acn1.

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An appropriate reaction from the Stowe Center in Hartford.

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A message from our Executive Director. #Blacklivesmatter #ChangeTheSystem #ChangeTheWorld

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How many ghosts does it take to unscrew a lightbulb? When we opened the Mill Museum in Willimantic this morning, we found that one of the light bulbs over the front door had come unscrewed and was resting on the... https://t.co/s2D98blI94

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Terrific students from Eastern Connecticut State University came to the Mill Museum today as part of Town Wide Town Pride. Students and townies spread out across the wide spaces of Willimantic, CT, to engage... https://t.co/s5KIxFHabt

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Thank you, Willimantic Trash Mob, for pi king up around the Mill Museum, Windham Mills Heritage Park, Garden on the Bridge, and environs. https://t.co/IifXTqE8YI

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Saturday, April 27, is "Mill of the Month" day at the Mill Museum in Willimantic, CT. Our intrepid Educational Director, Bev York, leads another field trip to a mill, mill town, museum, or other historic site. This month, she is off to the... https://t.co/o0MkQM2Tf5

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From our friends at the Nathan Hale Homestead Museum in Coventry, CT. https://t.co/wD5lwNUujo

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Our colleagues in Fairfield, CT, have created this important resource. It is important that we remember that slavery once existed in Connecticut. https://t.co/3Y5KbD2su2

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In 1889 Mrs. John Bowman of Willimantic, CT, won the prize for the "best bedspread" at the annual Willimantic Agricultural Fair. She was presented with a large certificate signed by E. S. Boss, the Willimantic... https://t.co/uj90GuCFU8

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In place of the Mill Museum's regularly scheduled monthly Spinning Bee, the Mill Museum Spinners will gather at the Connecticut Wool Growers Festival in Tolland, CT (not at the Museum in... https://t.co/jfnW5CBXkB