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Museums

Becoming Barnum: Going It Like a Rush

January 23, 2023 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

Becoming Barnum podcastIn this episode of the Becoming Barnum podcast, we dive into P.T. Barnum‘s 1846 letters to his uncle Alanson Taylor. He shares his business advice for their partnership in the Baltimore Museum, emphasizing the importance of good systems, press relations, and gradual improvements.

He also expresses disdain for previous museum managers and their lack of physical improvements. [Read more…] about Becoming Barnum: Going It Like a Rush

Filed Under: Arts, History Tagged With: Circus, Museums, Podcasts, PT Barnum

Vermont History Center Gets Major Grant

January 15, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

vermont history center At the end of December, President Joe Biden signed the FY23 omnibus spending bill that passed the Senate on December 22nd, 2022. Included in that spending package was $210,000 in Congressionally Directed Spending from Senator Bernie Sanders for the Vermont History Center in Barre, Vermont.  [Read more…] about Vermont History Center Gets Major Grant

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Material Culture, Museums, Vermont, Vermont Historical Society, Vermont History Center

Museum Spotlight: Dia Beacon, Dutchess County

January 5, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Dia:BeaconDia Beacon, on the banks of the Hudson River in Beacon, Dutchess County, NY, is a museum of contemporary art with more exhibition space than Manhattan’s Guggenheim, Whitney Museum, and MoMA combined. [Read more…] about Museum Spotlight: Dia Beacon, Dutchess County

Filed Under: Arts, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Art History, Beacon, Dia Beacon, Dutchess County, Hudson River Valley, modernism, Museums, painting

Manhattan’s Great Art Dealers: Some History

January 4, 2023 by Jaap Harskamp 1 Comment

Mary Mason Jones’ marble mansionManhattan’s 57th Street, the world’s “most expensive” street, was laid out and opened in 1857 as the city of New York expanded northward.

With the Hudson and East Rivers on either end, the area was until then largely uninhabited and clustered with small factories and workshops. As late as the 1860s, the area east of Central Park was a shantytown with up to 5,000 squatters.

Half a century later it was Manhattan’s cultural heart and an intercontinental meeting place of artists, collectors and dealers. [Read more…] about Manhattan’s Great Art Dealers: Some History

Filed Under: Arts, History, New York City Tagged With: Architecture, Art History, French History, German-American History, Immigration, Impressionism, Manhattan, modernism, Museum of Modern Art, Museums, New York City, painting, spanish history

Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse Nominated to NYS Register of Historic Places

December 21, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

1850 Ichabod Crane SchoolhouseThe Columbia County Historical Society has announced the ca. 1850 Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse, located on Route 9H in Kinderhook, has been nominated to the New York State Register of Historic Places after a unanimous vote by the State Board for Historic Preservation.

The nomination will now be reviewed by the National Park Service for inclusion on the National Register. A second Columbia County structure, the Harder Mill in Hudson, was also nominated. [Read more…] about Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse Nominated to NYS Register of Historic Places

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Columbia County, Columbia County Historical Society, Historic Preservation, Kinderhook, Literature, Museums, National Register of Historic Places, New York State Register of Historic Places, Washington Irving

Thomas Cole Historic Site Break Ground On New Visitor Center

November 22, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Cole Center groundbreakingThe Thomas Cole National Historic Site, located in the village of Catskill, Greene County, has broken ground on a new visitor center.

The new 1,800 square foot visitor center, to be named The Cole Center, will serve as a multi-purpose open concept space designed to improve visitor experience. It will include a gift shop, a café, and a public patio, and will host visitor orientation, events and creative activities.

[Read more…] about Thomas Cole Historic Site Break Ground On New Visitor Center

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Art History, Catskill, Catskills, Empire State Development, Greene County, Museums, Thomas Cole National Historic Site

Bolton Historical Museum Acquires Trolley Car Diner

November 22, 2022 by Anthony F. Hall Leave a Comment

Bill Gates Diner on display at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain LakeThe Bill Gates Diner, a fixture of life in Bolton Landing on Lake George from 1949 until 1980, when it was purchased by two local residents and then donated to the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, will return to Bolton, Warren County, NY.

The diner has been acquired by the Bolton Historical Museum, which will care for it as “a piece of living history,” said Dr. Glenn A. Long, the museum’s interim executive director. [Read more…] about Bolton Historical Museum Acquires Trolley Car Diner

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: Adirondack Experience, Adirondacks, Bolton, Bolton Historical Museum, Champlain Valley Transportation Museum, Culinary History, Cultural History, David Smith, Hudson River Railway, Museums, Social History, Transportation History, Warren County

PT Barnum & Showing Human Beings As Curiosities

November 20, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Becoming Barnum podcastThis episode of the Becoming Barnum podcast discusses an uncomfortable truth about showing human beings as curiosities. A letter from P.T. Barnum in November 1845 concerns the exhibition of people with genetic abnormalities. To be sure, this topic is complex. [Read more…] about PT Barnum & Showing Human Beings As Curiosities

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Circus, Cultural History, Medical History, Museums, Podcasts, PT Barnum, Social History

1,500 Artifacts Returned To Oneida Indian Nation By Museum

November 12, 2022 by Editorial Staff 2 Comments

A 17th century Oneida Indian Nation ceramic potMore than 1,520 funerary objects and cultural artifacts were returned to the Oneida Indian Nation from the collections of Colgate University’s Longyear Museum of Anthropology on November 9th.

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act requires federally funded institutions to return remains and cultural items. [Read more…] about 1,500 Artifacts Returned To Oneida Indian Nation By Museum

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, History, Mohawk Valley, Western NY Tagged With: Archaeology, Colgate University, Haudenosaunee, Iroquois, Madison County, Museums, Native American History, Oneida County, Oneida Indian Nation, Verona

The Hyde Collection Names New Curator

October 24, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Dr, Derin TanyolThe Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, NY has announced that Dr. Derin Tanyol, a nineteenth- through twenty-first-century art specialist, has been named Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art. She will oversee The Hyde’s contemporary exhibition programming and modern art collections. She began in the new role on October 24th. [Read more…] about The Hyde Collection Names New Curator

Filed Under: Arts, Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: Art History, Glens Falls, Hyde Collection, Museums, Warren County

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