Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry is a museum in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 188 m. Paulk Hill stands 294 m to the northwest, 9.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Weaving Shuttle, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile 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.
The story
The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry (BIMP) is a public museum of puppetry operated by the University of Connecticut. The museum is located near the main UConn campus in Storrs, Connecticut.
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Dates from 1987.
Wikidata Q24534715, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Operated by
- University of Connecticut
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- 14.7 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 19.3 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 9.7 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Mansfield Town Square: 0.0 mi
- The Thomas and Bette Wolff Family Park: 0.6 mi
- Spring Hill Fields: 1.8 mi
- Eagleville Pond Boat Launch: 2.4 mi
- Pine Lake Community Club: 2.4 mi
- 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
- Whetten Woods Protected Open Space: 0.2 mi
- Nate and Theora Whetten Woods: 0.4 mi
- Jerauld A. Manter Tract: 0.6 mi
- Hanks Corner Preserve: 0.7 mi
- Gurleyville Road Open Space: 0.8 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
- Weaving Shuttle: 0.0 mi
- U’s and C’s: 0.1 mi
- Copper Tower: 0.1 mi
- The Fallen: 0.4 mi
- Stone Book Universe: 0.4 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
- Schwenk Family Garden: 0.7 mi
- School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 0.7 mi
- Horticulture Garden: 0.7 mi
- Mansfield Community Garden: 1.5 mi
- Mansfield Community Garden: 2.4 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
- Fifty Foot Cliff: 1.8 mi
- Coney Rock: 2.3 mi
- Wolf Rock Cliff: 3.5 mi
- Flag Rock: 10.6 mi
- Crow Point: 20.5 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
- Windham Spring: 5.8 mi
- Picnic: 16.9 mi
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 |
When to go
Light through the year
| 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).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 27 | 29 | 36 | 48 | 58 | 66 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 52 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 3.9 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Storrs, 1 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/6491642615
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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