The Prudence Crandall Museum is pleased to announce our off-season opening schedule

The guided tour brings visitors through the exhibit Canterbury Female Boarding School: Courage, Conscience, & Continuance, on display in the five rooms of the first floor. The second floor is not open to the public at this time. After the tour, which lasts approximately an hour to an hour and fifteen minutes, visitors are welcome to return to the exhibit for further exploration.

The museum is not decorated as a traditional historic house museum.  Teachers, students, and supporters left few primary sources on how rooms were used during the time the Canterbury Female Boarding School was in operation, and few artifacts connected to the school have survived.

The exhibit Canterbury Female Boarding School: Courage, Conscience, & Continuance shares the stories of the school’s teachers and students and demonstrates expressions of support and opposition at the town, state, national, and global levels during the tumultuous seventeen months the school remained open, and shows how the legal expansion of education opportunities connects the Canterbury Female Boarding School to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka U.S. Supreme Court case. We hope visitors leave inspired to continue the mission of Sarah Harris and Prudence Crandall by addressing current barriers to education.

For more information, visit the Prudence Crandall Museum website.

For tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sunday-museum-tours-november-2024-to-april-2025-tickets-1045453328047?aff=oddtdtcreator