Follow the Trail

Arrive & Park

Head for 104 Weston Road, Weston, CT. Parking and the museum entrance are on High Acre Road: coming north on Route 57, turn left onto High Acre Road just before the Center.

Check in at the Visitor Center

Includes the Exhibit Hall, the Cider Press Conference Room, and the Prue Bliss Education Center Archive, which houses our collection. View our current exhibits in our beautiful, climate-controlled exhibit hall.

To research in the archive, schedule an appointment with a member of our archive team — email director@westoncthistory.org or call 203-226-1804.

Tour the Coley House

Guided tours of the restored and reinterpreted Coley House run during open hours, Thursdays and the first and last Sundays of the month at 1pm, 2pm, and 3pm, and by appointment. The first floor has been brought back to how it looked in the 1940s, and three exhibits fill out the rest of the visit.

General admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children ages 5–17; children 4 and under and WHCC members are admitted free.

Explore the Barn

The Coley Barn is home to "Weston at Work," a permanent exhibit exploring the history of agriculture, manufacturing, and textile production in Weston and Connecticut during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is open now, alongside the Coley House, with hands-on activities for kids — carding wool, weaving on a wall loom, raising a hay bale with a rope and pulley — plus rare tools and historic images.

See the Fraser Panels

In the stairwell of the Visitor Center stand three bronze panels, each more than ten feet tall, that tell the story of the United States in about 150 small scenes, from Leif Ericson's landing to the atomic age. The sculptor Laura Gardin Fraser, who lived and worked on the Westport–Weston line, made them for West Point, where they were dedicated in 1965. They came to Weston in 2025. They're outdoors, so you can see them whenever the grounds are open, dawn to dusk.