About Peoples Forest Museum

The Peoples State Forest Nature Museum is a state-run museum on Greenwood Road in the Peoples State Forest in Barkhamsted, Connecticut. It features displays on forestry, plants and animals native to Connecticut, local history, rocks and minerals, and insects. The museum is open seasonally from Friday through Monday. The rustic style building was constructed in 1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

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Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 11 miles of Peoples Forest Museum; the closest, American Museum of Tort Law, is about 4 miles away.