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MATTATUCK RECEIVES $50,000

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WATERBURY, CONN. — The Mattatuck Museum, 144 West Main Street, will receive a grant for $50,000 from the Connecticut Community Foundation to support the installation of a 6,000 square foot exhibit on the history of the city and suburbs of Waterbury.

This $2.1 million project will involve reinstalling the entire Brass Roots exhibit that tells the history of the region. The installation will follow the cycles of urban development, including for the first time, the deindustrialization of a once-thriving industrial center, and will incorporate first-person accounts of the urban experience in an environment offering dynamic visitor activities.

The new history exhibit will include open storage displays with Touch Screen Computer Stations, providing access to many objects not currently on exhibit. An Interactive Oral History Center will also enable visitors to actually hear many of the stories of city life in the Twentieth Century.

The museum is at 144 West Main Street. For information, 203-753-0381 or www.MattatuckMuseum.org.