THE MILL MUSEUM ARCHIVES
Curious about our collection of historical materials? The Mill Museum has more than 20,000 objects, photographs, documents, and other objects in our physical Archives, located on the third floor of the Museum’s main building, and the number keeps growing. We are slowly adding images and data from our physical Archives to our accessible, online CatalogIt Digital Collections Catalog, which you can access by clicking the maroon button below. The short video at the bottom of the page explains how to use and navigate our CatalogIt Archives. In addition, we have some of our collection (post cards, trade cards, and documents relating to the American Thread Company Strike of 1925) archived on the publicly accessible Connecticut Digital Archive (CTDA) at the Dodd Center at the University of Connecticut, which you can access by clicking the green button below.
If you would like to contact us for an appointment to donate historical artifacts, or to research in our physical Archives, you can email us at archives@millmuseum.org.
Click on the blue button below if you would like to read the Mill Museum’s Collections Policies.
Click on the yellow button if you are looking for the Museum’s online archive of newsletters, Loom and Spindle.
The Mill Museum thanks Connecticut Humanities for grants that have allowed us to purchase equipment and hire staff that made our Online Archives possible. The Museum also thanks the Connecticut League of Museums for a Museum Makeover grant that provided archival shelving and containers, along with professional guidance. The Museum also thanks Historic New England and the Willimantic Rotary Club for grants for preserving and digitizing artifacts in the Museum’s collection. The Museum further thanks the Town of Windham and State of Connecticut for a Local Capital Improvements Project (LoCIP) grant that installed climate control in our Archives, which are in a Town-owned building.
