FREE Educator Workshop

On Thursday, September 27th, the Museum of Early Trades & Crafts will host a workshop for educators from 4pm – 6pm. 
 

 The workshop will provide teachers K-8^th Grades, with two hours of Professional Education Credits, and will feature an overview of the Museum’s educational programs. 

 The workshop will be followed by a wine and cheese reception for all participants.

 Admission is FREE!  Pre-registration is required.  To register, call 973-377-2982 x 12 or by email to schools@metc.org.

Rosewood to Perform for the Downtown Concert Series

On Friday, September 14^th from 6-8pm the Museum of Early Trades & Crafts invites guests to the Downtown Concert Series, presented by The Arts Council of the Morris Area, the Madison Downtown Development Commission, Investors Bank, Star Ledger and The Rotary Club of Madison featuring the eclectic band, Rosewood. 

Rosewood is made up of a group of local Madison residents including Mary McManus (vocals, percussion), John McManus (vocals, guitar), Bill Meyer (bass, piano) and Leo McClusky (vocals, guitar).  The band brings their mutual love for music to the community with a natural beauty and sincerity. Rosewood's song choices evolve from their diverse range of musical roots – pop, rock, jazz, classical, blues, spiritual and many originals. Rosewood has a synergy that unites an audience, young and old, with a powerful spirit of friendship and family fun. 

 This is one concert you won’t want to miss!

The Downtown Concert Series is a series of FREE Friday evening, family-friendly concerts, held every other Friday, outside on the lawn of the Museum.  Guests are encouraged to spend some time after the concerts in downtown Madison where they can explore the town’s many unique shops and restaurants. 

 

Visit the Museum’s website for a full listing of the concert schedule at www.metc.org. 

The Museum would like to especially acknowledge The Arts Council of the Morris Area, the Madison Downtown Development Commission, Investors Bank, Star Ledger and The Rotary Club of Madison for their generous support.  Thank you also, to Madison Borough and the Madison Police Department.

For more information please call 973-377-2982 x14 or visit our website at www.metc.org.  Rain or Shine!  In case of inclement weather concert will be held inside the Museum with first come first serve seating.  FREE! 

New Exhibit Opening

The new exhibit, Orphan to Apprentice: Child Indentures as Social Welfare, will open at the Museum of Early Trades & Crafts on Tuesday, September 11^th during Regular Museum Hours.

The Orphan to Apprentice: Child Indentures as Social Welfare exhibit focuses on the practice of government officials binding out or apprenticing orphans and pauper children from the colonial period through the nineteenth century. 

During the eighteenth century and through the mid nineteenth century children considered orphans (any child whose father was deceased) or whose living circumstances were deemed unfit by the state, might be taken from their homes and bound out or indentured by the local Orphan’s Court.  While modern audiences often see this practice as barbaric, early contemporary critics considered it a beneficial form of social welfare that helped both the child and state.  The system of binding out had both successes and failures which will be explored in-depth through the lives of real orphan apprentices of that time period. 

Accompanying the exhibit will be a series of lectures that focus on the system of binding out and how it was used by different social and political movements.  There will also be a series of educational programs available that explore orphans and child labors in American literature, and monthly curator’s tours each focused on a different aspect of the story of binding-out.

For more information visit our website at www.metc.org or call 973-377-2982.  Regular Admission.

  This exhibit was made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.  Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations in this exhibit do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.