The Art Guide's Featured october 2008 Gallery :: The Slater Museum

The Slater Memorial Museum
108 Crescent Street
Norwich, CT 06320
Telephone (860) 887-2506
Fax (860) 885-0379
www.slatermuseum.org
Open year round. Tues – Fri, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Sat/Sun 1 – 4:00 p.m.

 

Located on the campus of Norwich Free Academy, the Slater Museum awakens visitors to the richness and diversity of the human experience through art and history. For more than one hundred years, the Museum has displayed and interpreted the best examples of fine and decorative art, representing a broad range of world cultures of the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Africa.

Dedicated in 1888 and housed in a stunning Romanesque Revival building, the Slater's local collection represents 300 years of Norwich history. Included are 18th - 20th century American paintings and decorative arts, including contemporary Connecticut crafts, 17th - 19th century European paintings and decorative arts, African and Oceanic sculpture, Native American objects, and a plaster cast collection of Egyptian, Archaic, Greek, Roman and Renaissance sculpture. The adjacent Converse Art Gallery hosts six changing exhibitions throughout the year.

(Information about our new exhibition)
Now at the Slater Museum

Crocker’s Norwich: The Long Nineteenth Century, ties together art and industry in Norwich during what might have been its most successful era.

The stories of the lives outside of art of those represented in the exhibition are as fascinating as the images they created. Their work represents a Norwich both idyllic and beloved by generations of natives, scholars and visitors.

(Shown here)
Slater Museum Mezzanine
The Slater Memorial Museum
Crocker’s Norwich: The Long Nineteenth Century is now open