Tour of the Charles Ives Birthplace Museum

5 Mountainville Avenue,Danbury CT 06810

15 July, 2022

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We are so excited to announce that once again, thanks to a very generous grant from CT Humanities and the Connecticut Office the Arts, Danbury Museum will offer free tours for children and their adult caregivers! While these past several years have been financially challenging for the Danbury Museum, this generous grant from CT Humanities makes these tours possible and we are most grateful to be able to offer this level of access at no charge to our visitors. Tours originate at the Ives Birthplace Museum located at 5 Mountainville Avenue, begin at 2:30 and take roughly an hour. Please note the home is NOT air conditioned. "The music of Charles Ives, which on first acquaintance generally strikes listeners as willfully eccentric, grew from a 'long foreground' as Emerson said of Walt Whitman's equally eccentric Leaves of Grass. Ives well understood how insistently the past remained present in his work." --Jan Swafford, Charles Ives, A Life With Music. Join us this summer for the soft opening of the Ives Birthplace. Take a guided tour of the birthplace of Danbury's Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Charles Edward Ives. Learn about the sights and sounds that influenced Ives, as well as the Danbury he would have known so well as a young man. We are most grateful for our generous benefactor, Savings Bank of Danbury, for making the re-opening of the Ives Birthplace possible!