Mystic Museum of Art, a part of the Connecticut art scene for 100 years, is a place where culture, tradition, and the charm of small-town New England converge. Founded in 1913 by a group of prominent artists rooted in the philosophy of the 19th-century French landscape painters, Mystic Museum of Art today serves as art and culture center for southeastern Connecticut. Key figures in MMoA's early history include Charles H. Davis, founder of the Mystic Art Colony, and Henry Ward Ranger, who founded the art colony at Old Lyme but later moved to Noank village, one town over from Mystic, and began exhibiting at Mystic Museum of Art.
