Tools as Art: Work and Play
On view June 13 – Sept 8, 2025
in our Bendel Mansion Museum Galleries
Organized from the Hechinger Collection and toured by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC, this exhibition celebrates the transformation of common industrial objects into extraordinary works of art. It explores tools as icons of labor, labor as a component of creativity, and creativity as a form of play.
Phase II: Planetarium & Astronomy Center Underway
On the morning of May 23, 2023, the Stamford Museum & Nature Center officially broke ground on the Phase II Planetarium & Astronomy Center.
The 11,000-square-foot facility will reinvigorate a core pillar of the SM&NC’s Mission and bring our organization’s Planetarium and Observatory programs under the same roof for the first time in our 90-year history. Astronomy programming has long been a Mission signature ever since our first astronomy classes were held in 1941. They continue to this day, and will abound in the years to come.