The Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut, serves as both a museum and historical society focused on the city, the Central Naugatuck Valley, and Connecticut art. Its collections connect local history with the wider region through paintings, sculpture, industrial objects, and exhibits on Waterbury’s changing urban landscape. Among its notable holdings is a fifteen thousand-button collection reflecting the city’s manufacturing past. It also supports contemporary artists through the Connecticut Biennial. A major chapter in its history came when research identified remains once displayed as “Larry” as Fortune, an enslaved African man who died in 1798, prompting an exhibit on slavery in early Waterbury and his burial in 2013.