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About. Seasonal fun awaits you at the Stamford Museum & Nature Center. The 118-acre property is home to Heckscher Farm, an 18-acre working farm; Overbrook Nature Center; the Bendel Mansion, with changing exhibitions and pieces from the Museum’s permanent collection; an otter pond; Nature’s Playground; the Stamford Observatory; Animal Embassy; and more than 80 acres of hiking trails.

Located in the woods of North Stamford, Connecticut, the 118-acre museum property is home to a 10-acre working farm, a Tudor-style museum and gallery which hosts exhibitions, an interactive nature center, 80 acres of outdoor trails, a large planetarium, a 4-story observatory with a research telescope, an otter pond, and a large playground designed for children to experience animals' perspective on nature.

The Stamford Museum & Nature Center is a whole lot of everything. Nature center, farm, petting zoo, natural history museum, history museum, art museum, children’s museum, a large planetarium, a 4-story observatory with a research telescope, event space, and hiking trails with access to the Bartlett Arboretum trails… here’s what they say about themselves:

Lovely park located in Stamford, we visited for the Birds in Art traveling exhibit, and walked about the lovely trails & animal pens after. The Birds exhibit was beautiful. The animals all have perfectly sized clean pens and look to be very well taken care of, a steer & goat were especially pettably friendly.

Seasonal fun awaits you at the Stamford Museum & Nature Center. The 118-acre property is home to Heckscher Farm, an 18-acre working farm; Overbrook Nature Center; the Bendel Mansion, with changing exhibitions and pieces from the Museum’s permanent collection; an otter pond; Nature’s Playground; the Stamford Observatory; Animal Embassy; and ...