Connecticut Valley Agricultural Museum

The Connecticut Valley Agricultural Museum is located in the Beautiful 473 acre Northwest Park, Windsor Connecticut. Please feel free to visit us during our operating hours, or make an appointment for a visit. Requests for alternate visiting times are welcome and the museum will do its best to accommodate whatever size group will be visiting.

The Connecticut Valley Agricultural Museum is dedicated to preserving the agricultural history of the agricultural industry in Connecticut. The museum contains many artifacts in the archives building related to the agricultural industry in Connecticut.The museum also houses a fantastic collection of antique farm equipment used in the growing of shade and broadleaf here in the Connecticut River Valley. This equipment is located in a beautifully restored shed located next to the archives building.

The first shade tent for growing shade was put up on River Street in Windsor in 1900. Since then, the Connecticut River Valley has been recognized as producing the finest Wrapper in the world!

Come visit the museum and learn the history of the most important agricultural crop ever grown in Connecticut!