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The Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop is an experimental learning workshop for students, teachers, and families. We collect, interpret, and teach experiments that are the roots of design and invention. Learn More...
The Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop was established in 1976 as a not-for-profit historic and educational organization. The Museum preserves the site on which Whitney constructed the first American factory in 1798.
The Eli Whitney Museum, in Hamden, Connecticut, is an experimental learning workshop for students, teachers, and families. The museum's main building is located on a portion of the Eli Whitney Gun Factory site, a gun factory erected by Eli Whitney in 1798.
The Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop functions more like a busy factory than a conventional museum. While it is not a quiet, contemplative atmosphere, there are things to see and do, even if you aren't visiting with children. Learn More...
A Historic Site: Whitneyville 1825. In 1827, William Giles Munson drafted a now famous portrait of Whitneyville, the manufacturing village that Eli Whitney had developed for 25 years. Whitney died in 1825.
Discover the richness in the simplicity of a timber and paper house in Japan. Feel the forces of climate, and custom, and culture that invent so many different solutions to our common needs for living. The Projects: Birdhouses, Fairy House, Ndebele Houses, Chinese Gate, Houseboat of Kashmir, Japanese House.
The Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop is an experimental learning workshop for students, teachers, and families. We collect, interpret, and teach experiments that are the roots of design and invention.
He transposed European ideas about the development of productive labor into an American paradigm. He conceived a system of tooling that is essentially the software and interface of the industrial revolution. Whitney was a master of change. And change is what we must prepare our children for.
See them in action at the Eli Whitney Museum's annual hands-on exhibition of American Flyer Trains. Come run toy trains that your parents and grandparents ran more than 50 years ago and build wooden toy trains to take home.
The Eli Whitney Museum was established in 1979 on the site of Whitney’s 1798 armory. Whitney is remembered not for the erudition of his Yale education, but for the practical discoveries of his work shop.
