|
 |
Brick Store Museum Happenings |  |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greetings! Even though winter weather seems to have returned, things are really heating up these days at The Brick Store Museum with all our new events and products. Read on, and then check out the Museum in person or online. Everyone has a history. Come discover yours at The Brick Store Museum!  Sincerely, The Brick Store Museum
The Museum is pleased to have worked with MSAD 71’s Stretch Beyond Program in offering a 7-week course for 1st-3rd graders entitled, "Travel Back in Time." The students' final project was to create a mini- exhibition incorporating items that were special to them. The students learned how to care for and display artifacts, and using that information, they wrote text labels and prepared their exhibit cases. On Thursday, February 16 at 4:00 PM, the children’s Making History mini-exhibition goes on view at the Museum, complete with an “opening reception” for these budding museum curators and their families. Making History will be up through February 24 and will then be displayed at Kennebunk Elementary School for another week.
The Brick Store Museum and the Kennebunk Free Library proudly present Then & Now: An Exhibition of Archival Images of Kennebunk Homes, curated by Kathy Ostrander and generously sponsored by Downing Real Estate Agency. This collaboration means you can catch the exhibition on BOTH sides of Main Street. Learn about 19th-century Kennebunk photographer Albion Moody in the lobby display at the Library, and see more than 150 "then-and-now" image pairings at the Museum. And what's more, if you see vintage images you like, reprints can be ordered (see below). They make perfect keepsakes and gifts!
The White Glove Seminar Series is a new initiative designed to give YOU a "behind-the-scenes" opportunity to participate in curatorial identification and collections care in a small, interactive and informal setting. The seminar series derives its name from the obligatory white cotton gloves that curators wear in carefully handling museum artifacts. Participants will be provided with gloves of their own as they examine and learn about pieces from the Museum’s collections. Attendees are also invited to bring related items from their own collections for discussion and identification...but sorry, no monetary appraisals. The programs are free, but please call the Museum at 985.4802 to pre-register, as space is limited. Come to one or all three:
STAMP IT! Brick Store Museum first-class postage stamps make their debut! Now you can mail your letters in style and support your museum at the heart of the Kennebunks! The stamps bear a charming image reprinted from an original 2005 watercolor by Ruth Goldsmith, depicting the Museum's historical 19th-century block of buildings as viewed from the church steeple on Main Street. With the Museum as a newly-approved member of the Zazzle Community Giving Program, 20% or more of each sale comes directly to us, benefiting our mission and representing an innovative new fundraising avenue!
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
