20120729 – I Belong

Opening reception for “I Belong, A History of Civic and Social Clubs in Hoboken” and “Hoboken in Print: Hand-Cut Stencil Screen Prints by Ricardo Roig”

July 29, 2012 • 2:00 – 5:00 pm

Location: Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson St., (201) 656-2240

Oddfellows, Freemasons, Elks, sailors, actors, and turtle-soup lovers: There has been a social club for every interest in Hoboken’s colorful past. Some built impressive club quarters that still stand today; some lasted only a decade or two; others endure today with active members. “I Belong” explores the diversity of the city’s social and civic clubs over the past 150+ years. On view through Dec. 23. Click here to learn more.

Click here to learn more about Ricardo Roig’s “Hoboken in Print” exhibit in our Upper Gallery.

Free.

20130615 Baseball

Historic Baseball Game

1846 Hoboken Base Ball Game Re-enactment

June 15, 2013

One of Hoboken’s “100 Firsts” is hosting the first officially recorded, organized “base ball” game played under Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr.’s rules, on June 19, 1846. According to historical records, the New York Nine defeated Cartwright’s Knickerbockers, 23 to 1, in four innings at Hoboken’s Elysian Fields, which were located near the Hudson River, about where the former Maxwell House Plant was located.

The Museum will commemorate the event again this year with a re-creation of a mid-19th century game, on Saturday, June 15, at 1 p.m. at Stevens Institute of Technology’s Dobbelaar Baseball Field. The teams will play by Cartwright’s rules for a competitive match. The public is invited to come root, root, root for the home team! All ages are welcome. Admission is free. The Museum thanks the Stevens Institute of Technology for making its facilities available.

20090920 analyze this

“Analyze This: Freud’s 1909 Visit to America through Hoboken’s Port” Lecture

September 20, 2009

A hundred years ago, one of the most important figures of the modern era passed through Hoboken on his way to a speaking engagement at Clark University. The iconic event was Sigmund Freud’s only trip to the United States, in the fall of 1909. The visit is mentioned in American history textbooks as a symbol of the great cultural changes that came in the early twentieth century. Freud began this momentous trip and ended it, also, in Hoboken.

Dr. John Burnham, Research Professor of History at Ohio State University, will visit Hoboken on Sunday, September 20, at 4 p.m., to commemorate the event 100 years after the visit ended. He will share passages from a previously untranslated document, Freud’s letter telling of his arrival in the New World. This presentation is an appropriate recognition of the role of Hoboken in this episode in American memory, an episode that symbolizes an important aspect of Hoboken’s past

20130319 – Hoboken Garden Club talk

Hoboken Garden Club: “Bird- and Butterfly-Friendly Gardens”

March 19, 2013 • 7pm

Location: Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson St., (201) 656-2240

Don Torino, President of the Bergen County Audubon Society, will discuss techniques for making our gardens more bird- and butterfly-friendly. Besides being an expert birder and naturalist, Mr. Torino is an avid gardener who practices what he preaches in his own garden in Moonachie, NJ. He has worked with the Bergen County Audubon Society to establish butterfly gardens at the Teaneck Creek Conservancy and at the Overpeck Preserve in Leonia, NJ.

Admission $5, HHM & HGC members free.

20160320 – Learn About FDM

NEW! Learn About the Fire Department Museum

March 20, 2016 • 3:00 & 3:30pm

Location: Fire Department Museum, 213 Bloomfield

The Museum’s Education Curator, Razel Solow, is pleased to announce two new children’s programs at the Fire Department Museum, 213 Bloomfield St. First, learn more about the Fire Department Museum in one of two new “Learn About” sessions that will be offered on the third Sunday of each month. At 3 pm, children ages 2 – 3 years old can learn about visiting the Fire Department Museum in a session designed for their learning level, and at 3:30 pm, there’s a session for children ages 4 – 6. Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian, and pre-registration is required. A registration link will be posted here from March 16 – 19 for each session, taking place on Sunday, March 20.

Free, thanks to HFA and PWP

20090823 tomato festival

Annual Heirloom Tomato-Tasting Festival

August 23, 2009

Come see why New Jersey is still considered the Garden State at the Museum’s 8th Annual Heirloom Tomato Festival on Sunday, August 23, from 1 – 5 p.m. in the breezeway outside the Museum’s entrance. Taste and select your favorite from among over a dozen varieties of heirloom tomatoes grown by New Jersey farmers Rich and Sue Sisti of Catalpa Ridge Farm in rural Wantage Township. The event, as always, is free.

20090913 maritime security

“Pioneering Research in Maritime Security in the Hudson River, along Hoboken’s Shore,” Lecture

September 13, 2009

Hoboken is at the forefront of protecting our maritime borders, thanks to the work of the Maritime Security Laboratory (MSL) at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken. On September 13, at 4 p.m., Dr. Julie Pullen, the director of Stevens Institute’s MSL will visit the Museum to share an overview of the lab’s research, which is aimed at detecting threats and reducing vulnerabilities in ports. Stevens’ MSL conducts field experiments in the complex urban estuary of the Hudson River where currents, salinity, temperature, water level, vessel traffic and acoustic properties fluctuate in both space and time.

Dr. Pullen will explain how MSL uses that research into the environmental complexities of the Hudson in developing and fielding technologies to address threat prediction and detection across multiple timescales, ranging from terrorist incidents to coastal hazards. MSL’s assets include sensors, vehicles, and models focused on the surface, underwater, and urban realms.

20090628 port of ports

New York, Port Of Many Ports: Hoboken’s Piece of the Pie

June 28, 2009

Come to the Museum to learn about Hoboken’s role in the complex, interdependent working waterfront system of New York Harbor. Thomas Flagg, an instructor at the State University of New York and member and past director of the Society for Industrial Archaeology, will speak about “New York, Port of Many Ports: Hoboken’s Piece of the Pie.”

Because of its archipelago form, the Port of New York and New Jersey was composed of many separate waterfronts, with some 500 miles of shoreline. This resulted in heavy use of local water transport here, even by railroads, which evolved into NY Harbor’s characteristic “lighterage system” or “water belt line.” We will look at how Hoboken’s single mile of that waterfront participated in this system, in ways unique to Hoboken.

20090712 steam on hudson

Up and Down The River Talk: “Steam on the Hudson – A Nostalgic Voyage”

July 12, 2009

PSE&G engineer and steam engine historian Frank Vopasek IV visits the Yankee Ferry, docked near the Museum, on Sunday, July 12 at 4 p.m., to regale visitors with a slide presentation featuring images from the glory days of steam boating on the Hudson River. This nostalgic and historic program will feature many of the familiar vessels that once plied the waters of the mighty Hudson and New York Harbor. Some of the images include the fleet of the Hudson River Day Line and other excursion steamers, which offered day trips up and down the river. Numerous ferry routes will be shown, along with freight operations like railroad carfloat, lighterage and tugboats and the various railroad terminals which once graced the harbor’s shore.

20090614 family fun river

Up and Down the River Family Fun Day

June 14, 2009

Make history! Join us at the Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson St., for an afternoon of fun, history, and river celebrations, on Sunday, June 14, from 1 – 4 p.m. There will be sea chanties, sidewalk chalk murals, nautical knot demonstrations, a magical ship-in-a-bottle, bubbles, mini boat races, riverscape painting, orienteering, map-making, a visit from guest artist Frank Hanavan, and a parade of flags from the Design-a-Hoboken-Flag Contest. It’s free, and all ages are welcome.