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Stamford Museum Launches CT at Work with The Way We Worked

Stamford Museum Launches CT at Work with The Way We Worked
 
 

It's finally Fairfield County's turn to celebrate Connecticut at Work – the year-long conversation on the past, present and future of work life in Connecticut created by Connecticut Humanities –with the arrival of the National Archives traveling exhibit The Way We Worked at theStamford Museum and Nature Center, September 20.

You can explore something of the history of working people in America in this exhibition that draws from the rich photographic collections at the National Archives to illustrate the changes in the workforce and work environments.

"Interactive videos, audio features, graphics, and work-related objects offer multiple interpretive opportunities for visitors within the colorful panels of photographs. Audio components share workers’ stories about changes in their industries, coping with new tools and technologies, and confronting workplace challenges. Films follow workers onto the job in a variety of settings. Visitors will be able to relate their own work experiences to those highlighted in the exhibition."

The Way We Worked will be on exhibit from September 20 through November 4 in the Stamford Museum Galleries, in the Bendel Mansion. Open, Monday – Saturday, 9 am – 5 pm; Sundays, 11 am – 5 pm.

Stamford Museum's Own Additions
The Stamford Museum & Nature Center offers a supplementary exhibition that explores the history of the workers at the Newman Mills, built on the banks of the Mianus River in North Stamford between 1726 and 1763. The cluster of water powered mills, including a grist mill, a saw mill, and a woolen mill, was the center of community life in the Riverbank area. The exhibition, funded with the help of a grant from Connecticut Humanities, will focus on work related to the grist mill when it was owned and operated by the Mathews Family, 1856 – 1916.

The working lives of millers and farmers will be illustrated through agricultural tools and equipment, maps, letters and photographs from the permanent collection of the Stamford Museum & Nature Center, including well documented objects that represent the life-work of Stamford residents.
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