NEW LONDON, CONN.- The Lyman Allyn Art Museum announced a new addition to its permanent Louis Comfort Tiffany in New London exhibition. Periodically, the exhibit will be refreshed with new and welcomed objects. This week, a stunning Tiffany Studios Apple Blossom Table Lamp (ca. 1900-1906) arrived at the Lyman Allyn, on loan from the New York Historical Society. This lamp resembles a miniature apple tree in bloom with a canopy of leaves and springtime blossoms sitting atop a bronze tree trunk base. It will be on view in the Tiffany in New London exhibit for just over one year.

October 2018 marked the opening of Lyman Allyn’s new Gilded Age permanent exhibition dedicated to the life and works of American artist and designer, Louis Comfort Tiffany. With items both from the museum’s collection and on loan, the exhibit includes nearly 100 pieces of decorative arts and fine art objects including a range of windows, lamps, paintings, period photographs, furniture, metalworks, glass samples and finished Favrile glass vessels, as well as jewelry and adornments.

Tours of the exhibition are available for groups, and may be scheduled by contacting the Education Department at 860.443.2545, ext. 2110. Museum admission is always free for New London residents. Adults are $12, seniors $9, students $5, and children under 12 are free.

The Lyman Allyn Art Museum welcomes visitors from New London, southeastern Connecticut and all over the world. Established in 1926 by a gift from Harriet Allyn in memory of her seafaring father, the Museum opened the doors of its beautiful neo-classical building surrounded by 12 acres of green space in 1932. Today it presents a number of changing exhibitions each year and houses a fascinating collection of over 17,000 objects from ancient times to the present; artworks from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe, with particularly strong collections of American paintings, decorative arts and Victorian toys and doll houses.