- Elevation, modelled
- 188 m
- Tallest summit within 10.1 miles
- Paulk Hill294 m · 9.1 mi
- Nearest byway
- Connecticut State Route 16914.7 mi off
- Sunset, June solstice
- 20:28local time
- Coordinates
- 41.8048, -72.2430
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry is a museum in Connecticut, at a modelled 188 m. Paulk Hill stands 294 m to the northwest, 9.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Hellenic Museum, a museum 0.1 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 15 miles off.
The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry is one of America’s hidden treasures—a superb collection of over 3,500 puppets from all over the world; an archive of books, manuscripts, posters, drawings, audio-visual materials and photographs.
art museum in Connecticut, United States
Dates from 1987.
Wikidata Q24534715, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
- Operated by
- University of Connecticut
- Fee
- No
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.1 miles of Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paulk Hill | NW 306° | 294 m | 9.1 mi |
| Whifford Hill | N 352° | 291 m | 6.0 mi |
| Westford Hill | NNE 18° | 290 m | 7.9 mi |
| Grant Hill | W 277° | 284 m | 7.5 mi |
| Sugar Hill | NW 313° | 282 m | 9.1 mi |
| Parker Mountain | N 356° | 275 m | 7.3 mi |
| Reed Hill | WNW 289° | 275 m | 8.7 mi |
| Rockwell Hill | N 352° | 274 m | 10.1 mi |
- 14.7 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169National
- 19.3 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 9.7 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage BywayNational
Named places within 25 miles
- Hellenic Museum: 0.1 mi
- William Benton Museum of Art: 0.6 mi
- J. Robert Donnelly Husky Heritage Sports Museum: 0.8 mi
- Mansfield Historical Society: 1.5 mi
- Glazier Tavern: 5.1 mi
- Horsebarn Hill: 0.9 mi
- Ball Hill: 1.6 mi
- Wormwood Hill: 2.7 mi
- Knowlton Hill: 3.0 mi
- Wolf Rock: 3.6 mi
- Old root cellar: 1.1 mi
- Carrick A. McLaughlin plaque: 1.3 mi
- Chaffeeville Silk Mill: 1.9 mi
- Captain Nathan Hale Monument: 4.1 mi
- Willington Veteran's Memorial: 4.4 mi
- Codfish Falls: 1.6 mi
- Cascades: 2.1 mi
- Cascades: 2.1 mi
- Diana's Pool Falls: 6.1 mi
- Hockanum Falls: 11.2 mi
- Wolf Rock: 3.5 mi
- Old Porcelain Mine: 7.4 mi
- March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Scotland Road: 8.8 mi
- Bigelow Brook Farm: 9.7 mi
- filled-in well: 10.7 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 4.6 mi
- Sandy Beach: 11.0 mi
- Staffordville Beach: 13.2 mi
- Woodstock Town Beach: 18.6 mi
- Moosup Pond Beach: 20.1 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 6.7 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 6.7 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 23.8 mi
- Gay City State Park: 11.5 mi
- Bara-Hack: 13.0 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 24.6 mi
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:25 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 19:46 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:11 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 15:37 | 16:22 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Day trips start here
- Storrs · 0 mi
- Willimantic · 6 mi
- Tolland · 8 mi
- Mystic-Eastern · 13 mi
- Union · 13 mi
- Somers · 16 mi
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