Lutz Children's Museum

  The Lutz Children's Museum is a non-profit children's museum located in Manchester, Connecticut, United States. Originally known as the Lutz Junior Museum, it was developed on March 4, 1953 by a vote of the Manchester Parent Teacher Association (PTA) Council. Their objective was to “provide supplemental enrichment to students in their classrooms and ask the community to come forth with ideas . Hazel P. Lutz, the current Chairperson of the Art Department in Manchester, approached the Manchester Parent Teacher Association (PTA) with the suggestion to establish a community children's museum. During her travels, she had collected a variety of artifacts and trinkets that she believed would be of interest to children[clarification needed]. Hoping to use these items as educational tools, she established a “museum” in the storage closet of her schoolroom. Her collection grew through the donations of others and began to include items that could be related to most academic discipli...