New London's story is filled with famous names like Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and Daniel Boone. It includes the great events of American history, particularly the Revolutionary War, when New London a Continental Army arsenal hosted and was the site of a Tory conspiracy. It is also the story of decay and rebirth, because the city's economic hardships suffered in the 19th century, but found new life as a glamorous summer resort. Perhaps most importantly, the story of New London is about the many families that the city and the surroundings of their home made over the last 250 year above.

Lyman Allyn Art Museum

Lyman Allyn Art Museum is a community-based museum in New London, Connecticut. Founded in 1932 by Harriet Upson Allyn in memory of her father, Lyman Allyn Museum, the population of Southeast Connecticut and is free to the residents of New London. The museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums and is a non-profit organization with 501 (c) 3 status. Lyman Allyn Art Museum is a founding member of the Connecticut Art Trail.

Housed in a beautiful neo-classical building designed by Charles A. Platt, the permanent collection includes over 10,000 paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, furniture and decorative arts, with emphasis on American art from the 18th to 20th centuries.

Lyman Allyn Art Museum offers a wide range of family friendly programs and classes as well as lectures and other events. We look forward to your visit.

Ostalgia Museum

Simon Starling's work process "Flaga" began in Turin, Italy in 2002, where a 1974 Fiat 126, which he acquired was built and developed. He drove the car to a Fiat factory in contemporary Bielsku-Biala, Poland, home of the Polski Fiat. Upon arrival, Starling replace the hood, trunk, and doors with white parts were produced in the Polish plant. He returned to Turin, stripped of the car and the chassis on the wall, in a representative view of the Polish flag. The resulting piece "Flaga (1972-2002)" represents a social commentary on the changing discourse between East and West in the past forty years.

The Fiat 126 was first introduced in 1972 at the Turin Motor Show as a replacement for the Fiat 500. Opened the Fiat factory in Poland in the early '70s, which presumably work and activities were more cost effective under Communist leadership. The Fiat 126 was not produced for customers in Western Europe after 1982, but continued to be manufactured in Poland until 2000. What was originally intended as an Italian city car became the symbol of the Polish daily life in the Communist Bloc.

The work is being shown as part of the larger concept of the group exhibition at the New Museum called "Ostalgia" - a German expression that describes a longing for life during the era of communist rule. More than fifty artists from twenty countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics are represented in the exhibition can be seen through Oct. 2 at the New Museum in Lower Manhattan.