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Connecticut home to America's oldest continuously operating public art museum

Wadsworth Atheneum in Connecticut has been welcoming visitors for more than 150 years
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The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut features roughly 50,000 works of art spanning over 5,000 years. Opened to the public in 1844, it's the oldest continuously operating public art museum in the country and the largest in the state of Connecticut.

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