The Downtown Concert Series is a series of nine FREE Friday evening, family-friendly concerts, held every other Friday until October 1st, 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.
The Museum would like to especially acknowledge Blue Ridge Mountain Sports, The Provident Bank, Madison Honda, Whole Foods and the Star Ledger for their generous support.
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.
♫ Sept. 17th - Moss Points North (Rock/Folk/Alternative)
♫ Oct. 1st - The FrostKings (Blues/Swing/R&B)
The Downtown Concert Series is a series of nine FREE Friday evening, family-friendly concerts, held every other Friday until October 1st, 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.
The Museum would like to especially acknowledge Blue Ridge Mountain Sports, The Provident Bank, Madison Honda, Whole Foods and the Star Ledger for their generous support.
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.
♫ Sept. 17th - Moss Points North (Rock/Folk/Alternative)
♫ Oct. 1st - The FrostKings (Blues/Swing/R&B)
The Downtown Concert Series is a series of nine FREE Friday evening, family-friendly concerts, held every other Friday until October 1st, 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.
The Museum would like to especially acknowledge Blue Ridge Mountain Sports, The Provident Bank, Madison Honda, Whole Foods and the Star Ledger for their generous support.
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.
On Tuesday, August 24thfrom 11 am to Noon get ready for the first day of Kindergarten
at the Museum of Early Trades & Crafts.
Learn the ABC’s of Kindergarten with 28-year Kindergarten teacher veteran and Museum Educator Stephanie Turner.This one-hour program will help parent and child prepare for the ins and outs of today’s classroom.There will be a question and answer session, story telling and crafts.
The Museum of Early Trades & Crafts will host eight unique one day summer camps for children ages 4-12.Starting Wednesday, July 7th andending Thursday, August 26th, each Camp for a Daysession will run from 10am to 2pm.
Camp for a Day offers a fun-filled day of camp activities without the long term commitment.Campers will learn about different aspects of history and participate in a variety of hands-on craft projects based on the Museum’s exhibits.Camp themes include the Lenape: Tools & Daily Living exhibit, jewelry making, puppets, arts and crafts with recycled items, textiles, a Colonial tea party and much more.
Campers may pick and choose as many camp sessions as they please.
JULY:
Lenape: Toys & Games - Wednesday, July 7th
Tour the exhibit Lenape: Tools & Daily Living and learn about how the Lenape people lived, worked and played.Campers will have the opportunity to play with a number of Lenape games and toys, and make some of their own to take home.
Fabric Fun - Thursday, July 15th
Take part in a variety of crafts and activities using fibers and fabric.Using real lamb’s wool, learn the old-time art of wool-felting, and make a felted toy.View the Museum’s displayed textiles and work with quilt pieces.Other activities include fabric collages, and making dream pillows and a braided rug.
Bejeweled - Tuesday, July 20th
Design your own pieces of unisex jewelry from a number of “found” objects brought in from home, and from a variety of materials from the Museum’s collection.
Puppets & Plays - Wednesday, July 28th
Campers will meet the Museum’s staff of puppets and will create several of their own using a variety of materials.Participants will end the day with a puppet show.Campers are asked to bring in a “stray” sock for a sock puppet.
AUGUST:
Lenape: Stories & Tales - Thursday August 5th
Children will hear a number of riveting Lenape stories and will create some themselves.They will fill their own hand-made books with their stories, Lenape vocabulary and artwork.
Early American 3 R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - Tuesday, August 10th
Learn how Colonials didn’t waste a thing, reusing supplies efficiently.Create a variety of crafts from recycled materials.
Lenape: Toys & Games - Wednesday, August 18th
Tour the exhibit Lenape: Tools & Daily Living and learn about how the Lenape people lived, worked and played.Campers will have the opportunity to play with a number of Lenape games and toys.A reprise of the popular July 7th camp.
Dolly & Me Tea Party - Thursday, August 26th
Campers and their favorite dolly are invited to a tea party at the Museum, where they will participate in a number of hands-on activities, and make their own tea for their tea party.
Campers are asked to bring a bag lunch, sun screen and extra drinks if hot out.Activities are both outside and inside the Museum.
Anyone under the age of 6 must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Members: $25 for any 1 session and $65 for any 3.Non-Members: $30 for any 1 session and $80 for any 3 sessions.
Sign-up now!Space is limited.Advance registration required, call 973-377-2982 x12.
♫ Sept. 17th - Moss Points North (Rock/Folk/Alternative)
♫ Oct. 1st - The FrostKings (Blues/Swing/R&B)
The Downtown Concert Series is a series of nine FREE Friday evening, family-friendly concerts, held every other Friday until October 1st, 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.
The Museum would like to especially acknowledge Blue Ridge Mountain Sports,
The Provident Bank, Madison Honda, Whole Foods and the Star Ledger
for their generous support.
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.
FREE!
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Museum of Early Trades & Crafts CRAFTSMAN OF THE YEAR
JERRY VEZZA
Award Reception Sunday, June 6, 2010 1:00pm at The Madison Hotel
The Board of Trustees of the Museum of Early Trades & Crafts will honor local musician and craftsman, Jerry Vezza, as the 2010 Craftsman of the Year at The Madison Hotel with a luncheon and musical performances by Jerry Vezza, Rio Clemente & Friends.
$75/Single Ticket or $100/Premium Single Ticket(Premium tickets & tables offer seating around concert area).
Purchase tickets at the Museum, by phone at 973-377-2982 x14 or online at www.metc.org. Advanced registration recommended.
Housed in a 1900 Richardsonian-Romanesque Revival building listed on the National Register of Historic places, the Museum explores 18th- and 19th-century American history, with a focus on New Jersey. Drawing on its collection of over 8,000 hand tools and their products, METC uses material culture to interpret the lives and technologies of people who lived and worked before the rise of large-scale industrialization in this country. The Museum offers visitors of all ages a broad range of changing exhibits, and related programs that address many facets of early American history, craftsmanship, and the diversity of trades performed by men and women.
Regular Museum admission is $5.00 for adults, $3.00 for seniors, students & children 6 and older, and FREE for Members and children under 6. Family maximum admission $13.00. The Museum is open Tuesday – Saturday 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. and Sunday Noon to 5 P.M. Closed Mondays & Major Holidays. (SUMMER HOURS- July & August, Tuesday-Saturday 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. and Closed Sunday & Monday.)
THE FROSTKINGS
