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Located on the campus of Norwich Free Academy, the Slater Museum awakens visitors to the richness and diversity of the human experience through art and history. For more than one hundred years, the Museum has displayed and interpreted the best examples of fine and decorative art, representing a broad range of world cultures.
5 Continents
art from across the globe
10,000 Objects
in the permanent collection
1,000 Artists
represented in the collection
1 of 2 museums
located on a high school campus
News & Announcements
After a two-year hiatus, Slater Museum is thrilled to announce the return of the Connecticut Artists Juried Exhibition, now entering its 78th year!
Slater Memorial Museum has partnered with Otis Library to bring you a new, enriching, family-friendly event: Storytime at Slater!
Welcome everyone to Slater Museum's new website, and thank you to all of our great supporters and friends who have helped usher in a new era to the museum's history beginning in 2023. Since being closed for over a year and a half due to our roof restoration and gallery renovations, we are excited to finally bring the museum back to NFA and the public.
With a career spanning over 50 years at Norwich Free Academy, celebrated artist and Slater Museum Director, Joseph P. Gualtieri touched the hearts and creative minds of countless students.
A Southerner by birth, Yankee by choice, and with an advanced degree in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania, Lynn Curlee landed in New York City in 1971 at the age of twenty-three with the ambition to become a painter. After a couple of years of finding his way, Mr.Curlee made his professional debut with a one-man show at Christopher Gallery on Madison Avenue in October 1973.