Give a Mattatuck Museum Arts & History Center Membership to a family member, friend or co-worker, and start them on an adventure they’ll enjoy all year!

Each gift of membership will be packaged in a beautiful newsprint gift bag containing: Museum Membership Card, CD and Map of 8 Waterbury Downtown Architecture Walking Tours, and 2 Passes for Free Admission to First Thursday, the museum’s monthly networking event with live entertainment!

AND when you give the gift of membership you’ll receive a gift for yourself! For more information about our exceptional gift memberships click here or call 203-753-0381 ext 10.

Programs, Events, and Trips

The museum offers an exciting calendar of stimulating trips, programs, lectures, and trips.

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Coming Home: Building Community in a Changing World 

Our All-New Permanent Exhibit of Regional History with Changing Displays

We have all come here from somewhere else. For three centuries new families have come to the Waterbury region. Some came for opportunity, some to escape troubles: war, persecution, and poverty. Enter our new history exhibit and be transported into the worlds of colonial farmers (1680-1800), factory workers and industrial magnates (1800 - 1950), and citizens of our new world (1950 - today).

Forget any ideas that you have about passively looking and reading. This exhibit is packed with hands-on activities designed to entertain while educating. Build a village and then compare it to what the early settlers actually built. Choose your possessions and compare them to the valuations assigned in the 18th century. Work the production line and realize the stress of making a button in 30 seconds. Play Risky Business, an actual pinball game, but be sure to avoid the pitfalls of floods, fires, and army contracts or you'll go bankrupt! You’ll meet people from our past and hear their stories, but this is not just the story of our past. This is a story of America’s future! Click here for more information.

Speak to Me: The Connecticut Biennial 2008

On Exhibition: September 19, 2008 – January 11, 2009

Join us and 18 artists whose work will "Speak to You." Ted Efremoff put on a suit and traveled the streets of Waterbury asking people to not only to speak to him but to affix their thoughts to his suit. See the suit, speak to the artist. Peter Waite’s sculpture Monster From the Deep speaks to our shared memory of popular culture. Steven DiGiovanni’s painting, Original Sin, addresses the nature of close relationships and how they change with time. Guest curators Janice LaMotta and Salvatore Scalora traveled the state to search out the newest and most forward-looking art being produced. From painting to video, from installation to performance, it will SPEAK TO YOU.

Artists in the exhibition: Krysten Bailey, Diane Brainerd, Ellen Carey, Deborah Dancy, Steven DiGiovanni, Ted Efremoff, Sam Ekwurtzel, Letty Fonteyne, Gene Gort, Zbigniew Grzyb, Nathan Lewis, Christopher Mir, Olu Oguibe, Yolando Vasquez Petrocelli, Caleb Portfolio, Kerri Quirk, Nelson Ramirez, and Peter Waite.