The CT Museum of Culture and History celebrates its 200th birthday

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The CT Museum of Culture and History celebrates its 200th birthday

(Beatrice Lovato / WSHU )The Connecticut Museum of History and Culture is the seventh oldest historical society in America, and this year it celebrates its 200th anniversary.The institution is older than the Smithsonian.It was founded in 1825 to create a public repository and to “not let the stories of the American Revolution become extinguished.”Over the years, the museum has collected more than four million objects from Connecticut’s history, …