We offer a variety of tours for visitors of all interests.

Featured Tours

Please note these are history tours, not house tours. Engage in a conversational, interactive tour about the history of anti-slavery activism and abolitionism in the United States. Learn about Harriet Beecher Stowe and the impact of Black abolitionists and freedom builders on Stowe’s life, especially how their stories influenced her best-selling anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Connect the past to the present as you discuss social issues of the 19th century and today. Immerse yourself in a historic experience by entering this transformed National Historic Landmark, where Harriet Beecher Stowe lived for 23 years. Explore the Nook Farm neighborhood, an 1800s community of authors, political leaders, and scholars who influenced the country’s intellectual and social development. Leave feeling inspired that you too can create positive change in the world.

This succinct historical tour focuses on Harriet’s childhood, her time in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the impact of free and enslaved Black people on her life and legacy. This tour moves through the first floor of the Stowe House where we invite guests to learn more about the influence of the abolitionist movement on Stowe’s famous anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Adult $15; Senior $10; Child & Student $5; Museums for All $3

We look forward to inspiring you with the life and work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), a complex and controversial novel that galvanized the anti-slavery movement. Our tours address the history of enslavement and racism in a conversational format and invite and encourage visitors to make connections between inequities then and now.

Now offered as a public tour from May – August, third Saturday of the month from 2:00 – 3:00 PM.
Available as a school group tour or a privately booked tour of 10+ guests. Email our Senior Education Coordinator, Anita Durkin at ADurkin@StoweCenter.org or call 860-522-9258 ext. 315 for more information.

An intergenerational tour about 19th century abolitionist Frederick Douglass. We explore themes of family, freedom, education, and the power of love and hope to build a more just world.

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August 16

A self-guided historic neighborhood audio tour, Seeing is Revealing: Nook Farm Then and Now, is available for purchase on-site at the Visitor Center Museum Shop. You’ll only need a phone and a wifi/cellular connection! The audio tour can be listened to anywhere, includes additional reading suggestions and links, and has unlimited replays for 30 days after scanning the QR code. The walking tour, if done in person, explores the Hartford neighborhood, Asylum Hill, once known as Nook Farm.

*Walking is not required to experience the audio tour

Purchase in person at the Stowe Visitor Center Front Desk during open hours.

Available from Oct – Feb, on the first Friday and third Saturday of the month. Explore our Calendar page to book your tickets – space is limited. This tour deals with themes such as violence, sexuality, and reproductive rights. It is not recommended for children under 13.

Delve into the historic, social, and political context of the 19th century and explore the role of spiritualism in the lives of reformers, suffragists, and Black activists.

Please note there is a wonderful Stowe House in Cincinnati, OH. We are located in Hartford, CT.
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