PRINCETON, NJ Stores and Shopping Guide Announcement

Morven Museum & Garden Announces the Exhibition: The Age of Sail: A New Jersey Collection

Two Masted Schooner near Tucker’s Island, New Jersey. William G. Russell (b. 1869). Pastel on paper

We are happy to announce that Morven Museum & Garden’s next exhibition is “The Age of Sail: A New Jersey Collection”. Morven’s opening reception for the exhibit will be held on Thursday, November 14^th from 5:30-7:30 p.m. (free and open to the public) and the exhibition opens for museum tours and visitors on Friday, November 15^th.

Morven Museum & Garden is proud to present the first public appearance of this unmatched collection of New Jersey maritime artifacts and art assembled by New Jersey collector Richard W. Updike.  This exhibit, featuring over 100 objects, explores the history of American shipbuilding, sail-making, naval warfare, shipwrecks and rescue.  This exhibition also reveals the daily life of American sailors with a never-before-seen collection of American sea chests and scrimshaw.   Views of New Jersey maritime history will also be displayed including engravings and paintings by George Essig (1838-1926), Frederick Schiller Cozzens (1846-1928), and Gerard Rutgers Hardenberg (1855-1915).

Curators of the exhibition: Elizabeth G. Allan and Richard W. Updike