Now Showing
January 28, 2012 - March 16, 2011
Going Places
Visitors will be transported to a time where carriages--not cars--ruled the road. These forerunners of automobiles and trucks were absolutely essential to American life in the 1800s. Carriages came in an amazing assortment of sizes, shapes, and finishes, from the buckboard phaeton to the sidebar buggy.
Going Places explores the culture, evolution, and eventual demise of horse-drawn transportation, from the early nineteenth century, through the industrial revolution, and into the 1900s and the dawn of the automobile age.
The exhibition also covers a broad range of questions: How were carriages made and repaired? Where were they sold, and who could afford them? The answers are surprising, and frequent parallels to today’s car culture make Going Places a fascinating journey.
Special Exhibition Programming:
Check our calendar page for upcoming programs around this special exhibition. Karen Haas will be presenting "Wagons West!" on February 25th, and William Woodward will be presenting "River, Rail and Road: How We Got Here...and Why" on March 11
Future Exhibitions
March 31, 2012 - July 29, 2012
With a Loving Eye: The Photographs of Jini Dellaccio
August 4, 2012 - September 2, 2012
13th Annual Maritime Art Exhibition
September 15, 2012 - November 11, 2012
Northwest by Southeast
Tapestry exhibit
Made possible through the National Endowment
for the Humanities and Mid-America Arts Alliance
Photo: Jini Dellaccio, Self Portrait
"Home Port, 2011" by artist Lynn Guenard
"Rowing Verite II" by artist Cecilia Blomberg