December at the Museum

Gift Shop Sale ALL MONTH!

Friday The Thirteenth,   Friday, December 13^th  3:45-5:00 PM

Learn about common superstitions and phobias.  Create a silly phobia of your own.  Story time

& Snack.  Advanced registration recommended, call 973-377-2982 x12.  $3 admission/ participant & Regular Admission for all others.

Family Fun Day,  Saturday, December 14^th  1 PM - 3 PM

Join us at the Museum for lots of family fun and craft activity.  Family Fun Day is held every 2^nd Saturday of the month.  Advance registration recommended, call 973-377-2982 x12.  Regular Admission.

Holiday Sing, Saturday, December 14^th  2:30 PM

Join in some holiday merriment with a good old fashioned sing sing featuring songs from Handel’s Messiah.  Come to sing or just listen.  Bring your own music if you have it.  All are welcome!  Regular Admission (sheet music extra).  Call 973-377-2982 x12 for more information or to register. 

Boxing Day, Thursday, December 26^th  Regular Hours

Make a decorative box to take home.  Regular Admission.  Call 973-377-2982 x12 for more information.

 

Children’s Basket Making Workshop

The Museum will host a hands-on basket making workshop for children on Thursday, November 7^th at 4:00pm.

Join artist Elisabeth Kessler-Caporale as she leads a workshop just for children in the art of basket making.   Students will learn the techniques needed to weave a basket and will go home with a reed basket.  

Open to ages 7 (accompanied with an adult) and up.  All supplies will be provided.  Pre-registration required by Thursday, October 31^st.  Space is limited. Call 973-377-2982 x14.  Admission is $25 for non-members & $15 for Members (includes all supplies).

Workshops, Lectures, Tours, Fundraisers and more!

Bottle Hill Day

Saturday, October 5^th  11 AM - 4 PM

Go back in time with the New Jersey Frontier Guard and learn about life during the French and Indian Wars (1754 - 1765).  Stationed on the front lawn of the Museum, members of the New Jersey Frontier Guard will recreate and demonstrate the crafts, skills, military activities and daily life of the mid-eighteenth century New Jersey resident.  In addition, visitors are encouraged to explore the Museum and it's many exhibits.  For more information visit our website at www.metc.org or call 973-377-2982.  FREE!

 

Tricks-N-Treats

Family Fun Day, Saturday, October 12^th  1 PM - 3 PM

Once again the Museum will host a hauntingly fun Halloween themed afternoon.  Come in costume and participate in a number of activities, including games and crafts.  Pre-registration recommended.  For more information call 973-377-2982 x12.  Regular Admission. 

 

Cemetery Tour:  

Revolutionary Madison

Saturday, October 12^th  2pm

Join Robert Garman as he gives a tour of Hillside Cemetery in Madison, NJ.  Please meet at the cemetery.  Advance registration recommended, call 973-377-2982 x13.  Admission $10 for Non-Members & $5 for Members (includes Museum admission).

 

Exhibit Lecture

Sunday, October, 13^th  1 PM

“Both Corpses to the Grave:”The History of the American Hearse presented by Mark Nonestied.  Come learn about the history of the hearse and other funeral conveyances.  Pre-registration recommended, call 973-377-2982 x13.  Admission $7 for 

Non-Members & $3 for Members.

Needlepoint Workshop

Thursday, October 10^th 6 PM

Join owner of Foxview Needlepoint and Rug Hooking, Susan Hoekstra, as she conducts a Needlepoint Basics workshop.  Open to all beginners, participants will learn six different basic stitches & how to read a diagram.  All supplies will be provided.  Pre-registration required by Thursday, October 3^rd.  Space is limited. Call 973-377-2982 x14.  Admission is $30 for non-members & $20 for Members (includes all supplies).

 Terrarium Workshop

Sunday, October 20^th 2 PM

Join artist Tica Martin as she teaches an interactive workshop in the art of terrarium making.  Participants will learn about the history of the terrarium and then create one to take home.  All supplies will be provided.  Pre-registration required by Sunday, October 13^th.  Space is limited. Call 973-377-2982 x14.  Admission is $30 for non-members & $20 for Members (includes all supplies).

Ghosts & Ghouls

Friday, October 25^th 7 PM

Join us for an evening of filled with haunting ghost stories, enchanting music, delicious foods & spooky punch.  A silent auction will also take place.  Black & White attire suggested, costumes welcome.  Call 973-377-2982 x14.  Admission is $75.

New Exhibit Opens

On Tuesday, September 10^th during Regular Hours, the Museum of Early Trades & Crafts will open the new exhibit Ghosts, Ghouls, & Gravestones: The Trades of Burial.

The exhibit examines the progression of the burial trade.  Passing away from this world was once a family affair, with immediate members attending to the dying and any funerary arrangements needed.  Over time, the process spread through the social and economic ties of the community.  By 1900, a robust funeral industry had developed that saw to a family’s every need, providing mourning clothes and other accoutrements; funeral  services including preparation of the body, coffin or casket; and even digging the grave, and carving the memorial gravestone.  Meanwhile society had developed strict protocols that dictated the mourning, though not the grieving, process.

Visitors will also learn about the different trades that developed around the funeral industry, including artistic gravestone carving and coffin makers.

This exhibit will remain open until February 2014.  Throughout the exhibit’s duration, various public programs will take place including cemetery tours and lectures.  For more information visit our website at www.metc.org or call 973-377-2982.  Regular Admission.

Coming Up:

Cemetery Tour: Madison and the Civil War,  Saturday, September 14^th   2pm

Join Robert Garman as he gives a tour of Hillside Cemetery in Madison, NJ.  Please meet at the cemetery.  Advance registration recommended, call 973-377-2982 x13.  Admission $10 for Non-Members & $5 for Members (includes Museum admission).

Cemetery Tour: Famous Figures of Madison,  Saturday, September  21^st   2pm

Join Robert Garman as he gives a tour of Hillside Cemetery in Madison, NJ.  Please meet at the cemetery.  Advance registration recommended, call 973-377-2982 x13.  Admission $10 for Non-Members & $5 for Members (includes Museum admission).

FREE Exhibit Lecture & Reception,   Sunday, September 29^th  2 PM

‘Pushing up Daisies’: American Culture and Death presented by folklorist Elinor Levy, PhD.  Come learn why Americans use euphemisms historically and in contemporary culture when discussing death.  Join us afterwards for the opening reception of the exhibit Ghosts, Ghouls & Gravestones.  Advance registration recommended, call 973-377-2982 x13.  FREE!