Eli Whitney Museum

Eli Whitney Gun Factory
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
1827 painting of the Gun Factory by William Giles Munson
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Location	915-940 Whitney Ave., Hamden, Connecticut
Coordinates	41°20′09″N 72°54′38″W / 41.33583°N 72.91056°W / 41.33583; -72.91056
Area	9.9 acres (4.0 ha)
Built	1798 (1798)
NRHP reference No.	74002049[1]
Added to NRHP	August 13, 1974

Eli Whitney Museum

Established	1979
Location	Hamden, Connecticut
Director	Ryan Paxton
Website	www.eliwhitney.org

The Eli Whitney Museum, in Hamden, Connecticut, is an experimental learning workshop for students, teachers, and families. The museum's main building is located on a portion of the Eli Whitney Gun Factory site, a gun factory erected by Eli Whitney in 1798. The museum focuses on teaching experiments that are the roots of design and invention, featuring hands-on building projects and exhibits on Whitney and A. C. Gilbert.^[2]