Top Things to do in Mystic Country
Top Hotels in Mystic Country
- 1. The Whaler's Inn
- 2. Hyatt Place Mystic
- 3. Hyatt Place Mohegan Sun
- 4. Hampton Inn & Suites Mystic
- 5. Hilton Garden Inn Preston Casino Area
- 6. Bellissimo Grande Hotel
- 7. Holiday Inn New London - Mystic Area, an IHG Hotel
- 8. Microtel Inn & Suites By Wyndham Uncasville
- 9. Taber Inn And Suites
- 10. Howard Johnson by Wyndham Mystic
Top 10 History Museums in Mystic Country, Mystic Country
Discover the best top things to do in Mystic Country, United States including Prudence Crandall Museum, Willimantic Textile & History Museum, USS Nautilus, Genius Museum at Nature's Art Village, Mystic Seaport Museum, Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer House, Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, Slater Memorial Museum, Tantaquidgeon Museum, Ebenezer Avery House and Museum.
Restaurants in Mystic Country
1. Prudence Crandall Museum
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 16 reviews
Prudence Crandall opened this school for young ladies in 1831 but was forced to close it in 1834 after it changed to an academy for black girls.
2. Willimantic Textile & History Museum
3. USS Nautilus
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 139 reviews
Reviewed By roselover440
I have taken my grandchildren here and they all enjoyed it very much. It is a treasure that not all residents of CT even know of. Great museum and the self-guided tour of the submarine is very worthwhile and informative.
4. Genius Museum at Nature's Art Village
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 3 reviews
Have you ever wondered how newspapers were printed in the 19th century or how a steam-engine could power a boat? Then step through the gates of time into The Genius Museum at Nature’s Art Village and enter a village of progress! Take a historic walk and discover a timeless town displaying the rapid transformation of American technology over two centuries.
5. Mystic Seaport Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 3,309 reviews
Mystic Seaport Museum is the nation's leading maritime museum. Founded in 1929, the Museum is home to four National Historic Landmark vessels, including the Charles W. Morgan, America's oldest commercial ship and the last wooden whaleship in the world. The Museum's grounds cover 19 acres on the Mystic River in Mystic, CT and include a recreated 19th-century coastal village, a working shipyard, formal exhibit halls, and state-of-the-art artifact storage facilities. Mystic Seaport Museum is located one mile south of Exit 90 off I-95 in Mystic, CT.
6. Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer House
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 28 reviews
A National Historic Landmark located within walking distance to Stonington Borough. This 14-room Victorian Mansion built in 1852 gives visitors a fascinating view into mid-century shipbuilding, international trade, family life, and more. Captain Palmer is credited with sighting Antarctica. Visitors are welcome to stroll the entire property, tour the home, and climb the steps into the cupola for a spectacular view. Only $5 for adults; $3 for kids 17 and under. Open Fridays & Saturdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Reviewed By Seaside447595
The friendly and knowledgeable tour guide will tell you everything about everything in the house filled with history of a Captain who at 21 and on a small boat claims to have found Antarctica and his competitive younger siblings and some of their family who inhabited the house - a couple of nefarious ones too! The tour guide made this tour compelling and interesting for all ages including my two teens. Don’t forget to ask about the spirit who may still inhabit the house. And make sure you take a selfie with the large penguin that greets you by the front door.
7. Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 403 reviews
Pequot Museum, located in an ancient cedar forest minutes away from Foxwoods Resort Casino, is the largest Native American museum in the world. REOPENING MAY 19TH!!
Reviewed By GregK1239 - Contoocook, United States
We went here for the first time on our recent trip to Foxwoods. We were all very impressed with the size and scope of the museum. The exhibits were all top quality, and the recreated village is spectacular. I would definitely recommend spending a few hours here if you are in the area.
8. Slater Memorial Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 66 reviews
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.
Reviewed By AlexB10499 - Providence, United States
This museum is one of the region’s hidden gems, and I mean that in the most literal sense of the term. Admission for adults is $3, and this is a place that could honestly charge $15 and it would still be fair. There are probably more than a hundred plaster casts in the central hall of some of the finest works of sculpture in the Western Art tradition (the Pieta is among them). There are also numerous galleries of paintings and other artifacts from a wide range of movements, as varied as 20th-century Connecticut paintings, furniture manufactured locally during the colonial days, a large Far Eastern Art collection, and a others. The building itself is an architectural wonder as well, so don’t forget to look at the lofty ceilings and finely-decorated walls while you’re there. This museum was established to enrich the education of the students attending the Norwich Free Academy, and it still serves that purpose today. This is a place worth coming back to, and I will definitely do so.
