Museum Partnerships

SmartLiving™ Center

297 Boston Post Road, Orange, CT 06477
Phone: (203) 799-0460
Toll Free: (866) 762-7899
Fax: (203) 799-0447

The SmartLiving Center is an interactive, professionally staffed facility that serves as a high-profile resource for promoting energy-efficient products, services and ideas to educate customers about energy efficiency. This educational facility features seminars, special events and student tours – all geared toward teaching residents how to use energy wisely while keeping an eye on the environment and not sacrificing comfort or style.

Tours
The SmartLiving Center provides guided tours for school children across the state of Connecticut. During a tour, students will learn about energy, electricity, electrical safety, electric generation and transmission, nonrenewable resources, renewable resources, conservation, energy efficiency and the connection between energy, electricity and the environment. All tours are aligned with the Connecticut Science Framework, Content Standards and Grade Level Expectations.

Bus Reimbursement
All schools in The Connecticut Light & Power Company and The United Illuminating Company service territories are eligible to receive a $250 bus reimbursement for their visit to the SmartLiving Center.

Connecticut Science Center
Energy City Gallery, 6th Floor

250 Columbus Boulevard, Hartford, CT 06103
Phone: (860) 724-3623
www.ctsciencecenter.org

The Energy City Gallery is a model sustainable community named “Greenslope” featuring energy-efficient technologies and clean, renewable energy sources that power the buildings instead of fossil fuels. The family-friendly gallery contains exhibits on sustainability, product life cycles, efficient windows, passive solar design, energy-efficient appliances/lights, green building design, wind, solar photovoltaics, biomass and fossil fuels. The multi-media exhibits illustrate the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption, and the interactive exhibits emphasize to students, educators and families the importance of changing the way we use energy.

The gallery is jointly sponsored by the Energy Efficiency Fund and the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund. All educators who attend an eesmarts workshop are eligible for a season pass (good for one year) to the Connecticut Science Center.

The Discovery Museum

4450 Park Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06604
Phone: (203) 372-3521
www.discoverymuseum.org

The Discovery Museum’s Energy Exhibit features different sources of energy, including nonrenewable and renewable resources, and allows visitors to actively participate in the generation, transmission and conservation of energy.

Students learn through interactive displays how energy is created from four types of energy sources: fossil fuels, hydropower, solar panels and wind turbines and then transforms into electricity transmitted to our homes and businesses. Inside the exhibit’s home, visitors can choose between efficient and inefficient appliances while watching the electric demand change on the house’s meter. All educators who attend an eesmarts workshop are eligible for a one year pass to the museum’s facility.

Stepping Stones Museum for Children

Matthews Park
303 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06850
Phone: (203) 899-0606
www.steppingstonesmuseum.org

In late 2009, the Energy Efficiency Fund initiated an energy education project with Stepping StonesMuseum for Children in Norwalk. The Fund is a sponsor of the museum’s new Energy Gallery on clean renewable energy which will open in December 2010. Additionally, the Energy Efficiency Fund is the leading sponsor of the mini-Conservation Quest exhibit tour that will travel to more than 100 schools, municipalities and museums from 2010-2013. This mobile energy lab will provide K-5 students, educators, and families, who do not live close to established museums where permanent energy galleries exist, the chance to learn about energy technologies and related environmental issues. The tour is available to entities free-of-charge due to funding and support from the Energy Efficiency Fund. All educators who attend an eesmarts workshop are eligible for a one year pass to the museum’s facility.