Conny the Whale Statue

West Hartford, United States

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Connecticut Children's Museum 950 Trout Brook Drive, West Hartford, CT, 06119
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1.6 miKane Station
1.8 miFlatbush Station
1.8 miParkville Station
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Place rating: 4
Simsbury, CT
Connecticut trivia for $ 100, please.
Q: What is CT’s state animal?
A: The Sperm Whale.
For bonus points – where can you find a 60-​foot long replica of such a creature? The answer is on the grounds of the CT Children’s Museum.
This iron and cement whale model even has a name — «Conny». It was built between 1975 and 1976 –the result of thousands of hours of volunteer labor.
Conny is hollow, so you can enter and exit Conny’s innards via two doors carved into its blubber.
Be sure to check out Conny’s impressive fluke and lower jaw.
All in all, quite a bizarre but wondrous site.