[drivingpairs] Carriage Museum - The Long Island Museum - FYI
- From: "Helen G. Roeder" <sunshinefarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Pairs List" <drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:06:36 -0500
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Julie Diamond
Photos available
631-751-0066 X248
www.longislandmuseum.org
Carriage Museum Gets a Makeover at
The Long Island Museum
Stony Brook, NY . August 10, 2006 . This fall, thanks in part to a grant from
the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), The Long Island Museum of
American Art, History & Carriages in Stony Brook, NY will unveil a major new
exhibition exploring the forces - both the vehicles and the people who used
them - that shaped the 19th century world of horse and buggy into our modern
world of black-top and combustion engines. In addition, the new gallery will
feature an authentic 19th century carriage shop, complete with original
carriage-making machinery, tools and vehicle parts as well as interior walls
from the original 1875 Graves Carriage Works carriage making shop, formerly
located in Williamsburg, Massachusetts.
In 2005 the NEH designated the Carriage Museum, which opened in 1987, a "We the
People" project, making The Long Island Museum one of only 17 museums in its
category to receive funding for implementation of exhibitions that year. In
addition to the NEH grant, the museum received funding from the Institute of
Museum and Library Services for the conservation of the Graves objects and
business records. This process will be recorded on video tape thanks to a
grant from the Early American Industries Association.
The Long Island Museum is located at 1200 Route 25A in Stony Brook, NY. For
information on events and exhibitions, please call 631-751-0066 or visit the
museum website at www.longislandmuseum.org.
Thank you Jerry Trapani for sharing this information.
Helen
Whitesboro, Texas
home of El Hasa Sport Ponies
(the Little Lions of the desert)
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