How Do You Spend The Perfect Weekend In New Haven?
On the shores of Northern Long Island Sound, the City of New Haven is best-known for hosting Yale University, the famous Ivy League institution dating all the way back to 1701. While the ancient campus and its foreboding Gothic architecture are well worth a look, weekenders wandering into Connecticut’s second-largest metropolis will find a wealth of other delightful diversions. While on Yale’s campus, visit the University Art Gallery, the oldest college art museum in the nation. The museum is spread across a handful of buildings and showcases everything from European masters such as Rubens and Renoir to American artists like Hopper and Homer. A similar attraction is the newer Yale Center for British Art, housed downtown in a nondescript shoebox of a building. The Center hosts the most extensive collection of British art on the planet (outside of England that is) and Turner Hogarth and Gainsborough are just a few of the showcased greats on display here. Take in a play or show at one of
