A unique and marvelous week featuring Steampunk is happening right nearby, at the Meadowlands Museum. This is truly a unique and hands-on approach to the learning about the Victorian Age, Steampunk and more. No matter your age, this is one event you should not miss.
The Meadowlands Museum is pleased announce its first annual Family Fun Day on Saturday, August 2, 10:00am – 1:00pm.
Children will be treated to three fantastically fun and interactive hours of arts, crafts, stories, and activities in and around the Meadowlands Museum and its gardens. Children who participate in the whole day will go home with three completed projects, and will have had the opportunity to interact with the current exhibit, “Alternate Reality: Steampunk & the Victorian Age.”
Projects include paper cameos, painted fans, Steampunk animals,
create your own Steampunk character, fancy portraits, scavenger hunts, and story time readings.
Admission is: $7.00 for first child; $5.00 for each additional child in the group. Children 5 and under are FREE.
All proceeds go to support the Meadowlands Museum and its programs, exhibits, and ongoing projects.
DATE: Saturday, August 2, 2014
TIME: 10:00am – 1:00pm Rain or shine
“ALTERNATE REALITY: STEAMPUNK & THE VICTORIAN AGE”
Step into the world where history and fiction collide.Drawing from its collection of Victorian era fashion and accessories, the Meadowlands Museum has paired with Jeff Mach Events to present a summer of gears, clockworks, top hats, and all things steampunk. The display will include Victorian pocket watches, top hats, jewelry, parasols, and a wedding dress from the museum’s collection, and objects on loan from steampunk crafters and makers, including Heather E. Hutsell’s “Time Jumper” dress, cameos by Corvus Creations, pocket watches and chainmail creations by Caruso Kith Kin & Co, and clothing loaned by Professor Adam Smasher. In addition, the photography of Jennifer Haggerty and John T. Riley will be on display. Further programming will be provided by Professor Adam Smasher, Professor Scott Calvin, and musical group The Eternal Frontier.
This special exhibit will open on Monday, July 21, and culminate in our annual Grand Victorian Tea on Sunday, September 28.
ABOUT THE MUSEUM
Each year, the Meadowlands Museum welcomes hundreds of children and adults, helping them connect to the historical and cultural sense of place that is the Meadowlands region. Founded in 1961 to connect school children with their community, the Museum continues the work that began with that single inspiration.
The Museum is open Wednesdays and Saturdays, 10am – 4pm.
Opening July 21st
Alternate Reality: Steampunk & the Victorian Age
Featuring Professor Adam Smasher and Baron Maximilian Von Zipple
Presented in collaboration with Jeff Mach Events
https://www.facebook.com/MMusAlternateReality
On view Wednesdays and Saturdays, 10am - 4pm
Saturday, August 2
10am - 1pm
Rain or Shine
Family Fun Day
Adults and children 5 and under are FREE
Children 6 and older: First child $7; each additional child in group $5
Monday, August 4
6:00pm
The Science of Steampunk
with Professor Scott Calvin
Saturday, September 6
2:00pm
Bartitsu: The Lost and Found Scientific Self Defense of Sherlock Holmes (or Self-Defense for Victorian and Steampunk Gentlemen (and Not-So-Gentlemen))
with Professor Mark P. Donnelly
