Historic Happenings Blog

Explore the powers of wild creatures in LSC's new adventure for young learners! Opens Feb. 1 On Feb. 1, 2020, LSC welcomes a brand new adventure for young learners —  Wild Kratts: Creature Power! Based on the popular PBS Kids series,  Wild Kratts  is all about discovering wild creatures' unique "creature powers." Your creature adventure begins at the Wild Kratts HQ and continues through five distinct habitats. Slip through underbrush like a jaguar, swing through trees like a monkey, and hang on a rope like a sloth in the Tropical Rainforest. Learn about Australian kangaroos, platypuses, and koalas. Become an Antarctic penguin and slide off an ice shelf, peer underwater, and balance on an ice floe. Then, get a new perspective on your own neighborhood as you “shrink down” to go eye-to-eye with beetles and birds, see flowers as butterflies do, catch lunch like a bullfrog, and create a creature chorus. The exhibition features animal experts Chris and Martin Kratt and a ca...

Location:  4th Floor Dates:  Oct. 5, 2019 – April 19, 2020 Fly into an interactive adventure based on the Angry Birds games! Opens Oct. 5 LSC’s newest premium exhibition,  Angry Birds Universe: The Art and Science Behind a Global Phenomenon , flies into Jersey City on Oct. 5! Based on the popular games, the exhibition takes guests of all ages into the world of  Angry Birds  for interactive adventures, both physically and mentally stimulating. Explore different concepts in science, tech, engineering, arts, and math in an extreme hands-on environment! Angry Birds Universe: The Art and Science Behind a Global Phenomenon  is available with the purchase of a Combination or Premium Pass. Highlights Build and race vehicles in a live version of the Angry Birds Go! kart racing game Use real slingshots to aim birds through the air Draw your own bird and animate it in the high-tech design studio Conquer the climbing wall, play a game of laser tag, explore real charact...

Upper Gallery Hoboken: A Retrospective by Alex Morales Uruguayan artist Alex Morales returns to the Hoboken Historical Museum with a new batch of 15 paintings of his beloved adopted home of Hoboken. The public is invited to a free opening reception on Feb. 16 from 2 - 5 pm. The exhibition will remain on view through March 29. The exhibit is supported by a block grant from the State/County Partnership program for the Arts, administered by the Hudson County Division of Cultural and Heritage Affairs. Hoboken Historical Museum 1301 Hudson St. PO Box 3296 Hoboken, NJ 07030 Phone:  201.656.2240 info@hobokenmuseum.org Tuesday – Thursday  2 to 7 pm Friday  1 to 5 pm Saturday & Sunday  12 to 5 pm Admission:  $5 Free  for children and members

Upper Gallery New Views of Old Hoboken, Paper Collages by Meredeth Turshen The Museum's Upper Gallery space opens 2020 with an exhibition of works by an artist, teacher, and writer Meredeth Turshen. All are invited to a free opening reception on Jan. 5 from 2 - 5 pm. The exhibition will remain on view through Feb. 9. Turshen has lived in Hoboken and taught at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, for more than 25 years. A member of the National Association of Women Artists, she has exhibited regularly in the New York metropolitan region, with Viridian Gallery in Chelsea, and with hob’art, an arts cooperative based in Hoboken.  Describing her work, Turshen writes: "This exhibition presents a modernist’s interpretation of historic Hoboken. I was inspired by the 2008 postcard show, parts of which can be seen again in the main gallery of the Hoboken Historical Museum. From the catalog of the exhibit, I excerpted images of Hoboken landmarks and incorporated them in paper collage...

Join a curious T-Rex on an adventure to learn about dinosaurs! Opens Sept. 21 LSC’s newest adventure for young learners,  Dinosaur Train: The Traveling Exhibit , opens Sept. 21! Join a curious Tyrannosaurus Rex named Buddy who travels the world to discover everything there is to know about dinosaurs! Based on the  Dinosaur Train  TV series, the exhibition embraces and celebrates the fascination kids have with both dinosaurs and trains. Join Buddy on his adventure back to the time of dinosaurs and unearth basic concepts in life science, natural history, and paleontology! Highlights Hop on the Dinosaur Train and travel to all three time periods during the Age of Dinosaurs (Mesozoic Era – Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous) Learn the characteristics of herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores, and how dinosaurs are classified into these groups Explore math concepts by studying the different sizes and measurements of dinosaurs Interact with real and replica fossils and learn how...

Upper Gallery Lackawanna: From Drawing to Print, New Works by Kelli Glancey Artist Kelli Glancey moved to Hoboken in 1985 to study at Parsons School of Design in NYC, where today she is a part-time assistant professor. She says that residing in Hoboken is distinctive in many ways and is so rich historically. “I am a visual person. I walk the streets daily and stare at the details of the many beautiful structures and homes, always happier when I see a place renovated rather than destroyed for new construction or high rises. This, I feel, is vital to the integrity and character of this quaint, mile-square city. I have watched it change a lot since the mid-1980s but it still feels like home.” One distinctive fixture of the Hoboken cityscape is the historic 1907 Lackawanna Terminal, the gateway to Hoboken and NYC for so many visitors and new arrivals. The terminal and its surroundings are the focus of the exhibit, “Lackawanna ~ from drawing to print, New Works by Kelli Glancey," going...

Open September 22 to December 22, 2019 Fall Fest Fall Fest , North Jersey’s ultimate autumn adventure, debuts at Liberty Science Center on Sept. 28! Everything you love about autumn – the mazes, the pumpkins, the apple cider – is here in Jersey City! Tired of regular old corn mazes? See if you can find your way out of our outdoor  Spider Maze , a 4,000-sq-ft webby labyrinth that’s unlike any maze you’ve explored before! The  8-foot-tall haystack  is the perfect climbing challenge for your big kids, while the  hay maze  is a blast for the little kids in your group. Everyone will enjoy meeting some furry friends at our  weekend petting zoo ! Next, head inside to our  indoor pumpkin patch , where you’ll get to choose and paint your own pumpkin (available on weekends for a $2 donation). The pumpkin experiments continue from there...use an endoscope to explore the slimy insides, and then see one smash open using liquid nitrogen! And of course, it wouldn’t b...

Upper Gallery Cloud Zombies Visit the Museum, Art Installation by Steven Vizena Artist Steve Vizena has been dazzling neighbors and passers-by every Halloween for over a decade with his thought-provoking 3D assemblages in his garden at the corner of 11th and Garden streets. (He also dazzles passers-by with his ever-changing garden from early spring through late fall!) His goal isn’t merely to join his neighbors in the annual frenzy of Halloween decorations; rather, he enjoys engaging people in conversations about our engagement with and disengagement from the visual world around us. The Museum has invited Vizena to create a display that captures the spirit of those art assemblages, and to bring his archived images of past Halloween creations, along with a display of some of his other visual art. His artwork is an exploration of what it means to fully engage our visual senses.   Vizena's "Cloud Zombies' installation was inspired by his sensation of dodging zombies as he nav...

Upper Gallery The Amazing Color Photographs of Hoboken by Anita Heimbruch Sneak back in time to Hoboken in the 1950s and 60s through the rich Kodachrome images taken by Anita Heimbruch, a long-time employee at Hoboken's Keuffel & Esser factory at Third and Adams Streets. Her photographs reflect the daily lives of working-class Hoboken: The festivals, the stoops, the pride they took in their backyard gardens, with crisscrossed lines of laundry drying above. More details to come. The exhibit opens Sunday, August 4, with a free reception from 2 – 5 pm in the Museum's Upper Gallery. The exhibit remains on view through September 15.  The exhibit is supported by a block grant from the State/County Partnership program for the Arts, administered by the Hudson County Division of Cultural and Heritage Affairs. Tuesday – Thursday  2 to 7 pm Friday  1 to 5 pm Saturday & Sunday  12 to 5 pm Admission:  $5 Free  for children and members

Explore art and nature through stunning sculptures made with LEGO pieces. Now open! This premium exhibition uses beautiful works of art made from simple toy blocks to explore animal endangerment, the balance of ecosystems, and mankind’s relationship with nature. Explore massive LEGO pieces, all created by Brooklyn artist Sean Kenney, brick by brick. Some show the majesty of various wild species including pandas, tree frogs, polar bears, and hummingbirds. Others depict eco-friendly actions humans can take—from protecting an animal's habitat, to planting a garden, to using a bike instead of a car. Just like LEGO bricks, everything in nature is interconnected in a delicate balance. This exhibition also includes a hands-on play zone where guests can dream up and build their own wild creations using thousands of bricks! Experience  Sean Kenney’s Art Made with LEGO® Bricks  from June 22 through Sept. 2, available with the purchase of a Combination or Premium Pass. Hours Mon. - Fri. ...

Upper Gallery Hiro Takeshita Transforms Cut Paper into Art Hiro Takeshita wields an exacto knife with more finesse than many painters with brushes and oils. He creates dazzling works of art with layers of precisely cut paper in saturated hues. The resulting works of art appear to be painted, but they’re all executed in kiri-e or kirigami, the traditional Japanese art of cut paper.  Hiro was born in Nagasaki, Japan. After studying art and print-making in Tokyo, he moved to the U.S. in 1977 to further his studies, inspired by artists of the post-Impressionist period, particularly Henri Matisse, Abstract Expressionists like Richard Diebenkorn and Pop Artists, especially Andy Warhol. He moved to Hoboken in 1985.   Hiro's latest works express his appreciation for the beauty of nature. About a dozen of his paperworks will go on display at the Museum in the Upper Gallery on Sunday, June 16, through July 28. His third exhibition at the Hoboken Museum is titled, “Under the Stars.”...

Saturday-Sunday, June 29-30 – Hudson County Hoboken Museum On  June 29 at 10 am , we have just added a  new historic walking tour  to our calendar:  " A River Walk Across the Ages : Ships, Trains and Beverages Too! ," led by Terry Pranses, a former Museum trustee and frequent Hoboken tour guide on various subjects. This tour costs $25  and is limited to 20 participants.  Finally, on  Sunday, June 30, at 10 am and 1 pm , we are pleased to offer two  Historic Walking Tours of Stevens Campus , hosted by the university's archivists, Leah Loscutoff and Ted Houghtaling. The tour costs $15.  For more information, please  click here .