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Eli Whitney Museum

About Eli Whitney Museum

The Eli Whitney Museum, in Hamden, Connecticut, is an experimental learning workshop for students, teachers, and families. The museum's main building is located on a portion of the Eli Whitney Gun Factory site, a gun factory erected by Eli Whitney in 1798. The museum focuses on teaching experiments that are the roots of design and invention, featuring hands-on building projects and exhibits on Whitney and A. C. Gilbert.

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Founded
1979

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Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 1.8 miles of Eli Whitney Museum; the closest, Macdonough Art Gallery, is about a mile away.