COVID-19 Update
The safety and health of visitors and staff is the highest priority at the Mattatuck Museum. The Museum is keeping up to date with all state and CDC health-related plans and procedures. For more information on visiting the Museum and current safety procedures please click here.
The Museum has returned to in-person programming with reduced attendance capacity and is currently offering many of our adult, family, and kids programs with a virtual option. Please see our calendar of events or purchase a timed ticket.
Greater Waterbury COVID-19 Project
As the historical society for the greater Waterbury region the Mattatuck Museum is collecting and documenting how COVID-19 has affected our local community. Learn more here: COVID-19 Project
Museum From Home
While the Museum was closed to the public during spring and early summer 2020, staff worked together to create a weekly themed collection of lesson plans, activities, and links to other resources for families, teachers, and individuals.
To navigate the MATT @ Home, explore the online exhibitions listed below or click each header to access a blog post written by the Museum’s curator. Scroll to the bottom of each blog post to download lesson plans and activities!
Online Exhibitions
Staff Picks Exhibition
Edward Balthazar: Urban Artist
Women’s Sphere: Selections from the Collection
Blog Posts, Lesson Plans, Activities, and More
The Flood of ’55
The Brass Industry
Niagara Falls
Juneteenth
- Lesson Plan – Juneteenth
Lesson Plan – Faith Ringgold and Story Quilts
Activity – Faith Ringgold
Activity – Romare Bearden
Superheroes
Charles Ethan Porter and Still Life
- Lesson Plan – Charles Ethan Porter
Activity – Charles Ethan Porter – Still Life Painting
Activity – Charles Ethan Porter – Collage
George L.K. Morris
Duvian Montoya
- Lesson Plan – Duvian Montoya
Activity – Duvian Montoya – Nature Bingo
Activity – Duvian Montoya – Bird’s Nest
Kay Sage and Surrealism
- Lesson Plan – Kay Sage and Surrealism
Activity – Kay Sage and Surrealism – Collage
Activity – Kay Sage and Surrealism – Collage
Nature
- Lesson Plan – Stephanie Brody-Lederman
Activity – Found Object Friday, Origami Flowers
Activity – Brody-Lederman Imaginary Environment
Picturing Peace
- Lesson Plan – Picturing Peace
Activity – Picturing Peace – Shadowboxes
Activity – Picturing Peace – Create Your Own Cairn
Scenes of Waterbury
- Lesson Plan – Scenes of Waterbury
Activity – Scenes of Waterbury – Notes of Kindness
Activity – Scenes of Waterbury – Drawing a Landscape
Activity – Capturing Community – Photo Prompts
Activity – Scenes of Waterbury – Scavenger Hunt
Activity – Scenes of Waterbury – Landscapes
Activity – Scenes of Waterbury – Create the Green
Activity – Scenes of Waterbury – Create the Green Worksheet
Spring Break Vacation Activities
- Lesson Plan – Vacation Week
Activity – Vacation Week – Portraits
Activity – Vacation Week – Mini Museum
Activity – Vacation Week – Jigsaw Puzzle
Activity – Vacation Week – Calder Project
T.C. Cannon
Women’s Suffrage
- Lesson Plan – Women’s Suffrage
Activity – Women’s Suffrage – Election
Activity – Women’s Suffrage – Paraphenalia
Activity – Women’s Suffrage – Word Search
More Worksheets and Lesson Plans
- Activity – Art Journaling – Journal Prompts
- Activity – Mother’s Day – Paper Fortune Teller
Activity – Mother’s Day – Paper Flowers and Necklaces - Lesson Plan – Faith Ringgold and Story Quilts
Activity – Faith Ringgold and Story Quilts – Quilt
Activity – Art Journaling – Journal Prompts - A History of Toys and Games at Rose Hill
Coloring Pages
- Abstract Art
- Carrie Welton
- Calder Airplane
- Cubism 1
- Cubism 2
- Cubism3
- Floral Art
- Pueblo Art
- Pueblo Art 2
- Tea Day
- Waterbury Green
Videos
Jane Peterson: At Home and Abroad – 3/17/2020
Community Cookbook Club: Jerusalem – Mejadra
Museum From Home is brought to you in part by the generous support of
