Closed Labor Day Monday, September 6
The Cultural Center is a proud participant in Blue Star Museums, an Operation Appreciation initiative from Blue Star Families in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts that allows active duty military families to attend participating museums free of admission charge from May 31 - September 6, 2010.
Military may receive free admission to all exhibitions for immediate family (husband, wife and children) with Department of Defense ID.
Legacy of Lincoln celebrates the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln the candidate’s Right makes Might speech at Cooper Union and closes out his 200th Birthday Bicentennial. Abraham Lincoln rose from humble beginnings and little public expectation to preside over one of the most important and complex moral and legal issues to confront the young nation. The Legacy of Lincoln examines his sorrowful demeanor tempered by the humor that was a Lincoln hallmark. The exhibition focuses on three subjects, the 1860 Candidate at Cooper Union, the President depicted in thirty political cartoons from Harper’s Illustrated and One Life a selection of ten photographic portraits from the Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Service.
The first gallery recreates the stage setting of the 1860 candidate’s Right makes Might speech that launched him onto the national stage. A variety of artifacts are on loan from the archives of Cooper Union, including 1860 pamphlets and rare books on the candidate’s political journey. A second gallery features editorial cartoons from Harper’s Illustrated that depict the range of mythologies inspired by Lincoln’s political career and those who shared the national stage. Lastly the center hall of Snug Harbor’s historic Minard Lefevre building is filled with One Life a selection of portraits produced by the Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Service.
Additionally a log-cabin screening room presents a range of documentaries and feature films about the sixteenth President, such as Looking for Lincoln by Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Young Mr. Lincoln with Henry Fonda, Lincoln in Illinois with Raymond Massey and Lincoln with Sam Waterston. Visitors are invited to record their thoughts on the log walls of the screening room, much like the resourceful young Lincoln who wrote on scraps of wood because he could not afford paper.
A series of programs will explore the condition of historical celebrity through Mary Todd reenactors and a lecture on photographer Mathew Brady.
Exhibition continues through Sunday, August 29, 2010
Info newhouse@snug-harbor.org or (718) 425-3524
DIRECTIONS Via mass transit from Manhattan, take the 1 to South Ferry, 4/5 to Bowling Green or R/W to White Hall. Exit and walk south to blue neon Staten Island terminal to take FREE ferry. After landing take the S40 bus at Gate D to travel along Richmond Terrace, less than a 10-minute ride. Let the bus driver know that you want to get off at Snug Harbor.