Featured Items

Japanese Kata-gami Stencils, ca. 1900 and earlier.  Donated by Florence Bacheler, Teacher of Art, ca. 1950.

Plaster Cast Collection. Purchased in the mid-twentieth century.  From the Hopkins Street HPHS Art Room.

Octavian Augustus

Angel from The Duomo

 

Japanese Chest, ca. 1873
Gift of Japanese Students to Principal Samuel Capron

Amoebas
Biology Chart Painted in Leipzig, 1929

Antique Silver Tilting Pitcher Set, Class of 1893.

Beautifully restored by Peter Rosati, Colonial Polishing & Refinishing,
Plantsville, CT.  October 15, 2012.

 

Triumphant Entry of Alexander into Babylon .  Late 19^th century.  One of twenty-two panels by the neoclassical sculptor Bertel Thorwaldsen, 1770-1844. Plaster, 61.5” x 24” x 1.5.”  Formerly, this panel was located in the Hopkins Street HPHS Art Room, 1883-1963.  Acquired by Robert Saunders in 1966, and donated to the HPHS Museum in 2007.

 

The James Goodwin Batterson Fossil Collection.  Discovered in Portland, CT, in the mid-1850’s and donated to HPHS in 1883.

 

The world-famous Alvan Clark Telescope (1884) in the Joseph Hall Observatory atop the school.

The Projector in the Charles W.Walker Planetarium

The Antique Science Apparati Collection Has More than 150 Items

Celestial Globe, J. Schedler, ca. 1865

Spectroscope, Central Science Co., Chicago, IL

Helmholtz Double Siren

Photo-Electric Microscope