We had such a fun time with the students and parents of the Hungerford School- Jerome Parker Campus this past Saturday morning at the kick-off session of our Parents As Arts Partners program sponsored by the Center for Arts Education.
We made monotype prints, which are unique one-of-a-kind print made by painting on a plexiglass [...]
We have been lucky to work with PS 861,The School of Civic Leadership this year on a project called, Sailors at Home, Sailors at Sea. Teacher Michael Parise visited the museum one afternoon and was so impressed that he asked if we would partner with his school on a year [...]
Our faithful volunteer, Hans Andreason, has been volunteering at the museum for a long time, but he’s extra busy this week, painting, polishing, waxing, and repairing to get the museum extra perfect for the 100th anniversary party this Saturday night. In addition to gleaming woodwork and newly caulked moldings, you’ll see a recreation of Noble’s [...]
Please join us this Saturday, October 13th, 2012 for
Sailing to Staten Island
The Immigrant Experience
7:30 PM
Free! All ages welcome. Refreshments available.
Featuring Hughie Jones, Jim MacFarland, Frank Woerner, Frank Hendricks, Bob Wright, Bob Conroy, Bill Grau, and Jan Christensen.
The Noble Maritime Collection contributed many Sailors’ Snug Harbor artifacts to the From Farm to City: Staten Island 1661-2012, the new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York.. This detail of the 1898 map of Snug Harbor and the surrounding it is part of the companion website,
Our conservator, Halina McCormack, is very dedicated to the museum. Without her, the Treasures of Sailors’ Snug Harbor exhibition would not be on display. She spent hours painstakingly restoring the paintings, frames, ship models, and artifacts in the exhibition.
Halina recently brought some visitors to the museum, but we had no idea that they weren’t [...]
Please join us on Sunday, May 27th from 2-4 pm for
A Helluva Choir
Spring Weekend Concert
It’s fun! It’s free! Great for the whole family!
Our visiting school groups continue to impress us with their artistic abilities. PS 53 recently sent students here to do watercolor paintings with us. Here is a selection of some of the third grade masterpieces:
As always, visiting school groups are treated to a tour of [...]
The Noble Maritime Collection’s exhibition Tugboats Night & Day will close on Sunday, May 13, 2012.
Inspired by those beloved icons of New York Harbor, the tugboats, Tugboats Night & Day includes models of tugs, a full-scale replica of a tug wheelhouse, and paintings, photographs, and fine prints, by contemporary artists. [...]
Some young artists from PS 35 recently visited the museum to participate in our printmaking classes. The students made their own maritime prints inspired by John Noble’s Houseboat Studio and the new Ship Model Gallery. One group asked to see the Titanic exhibition and came up with their own artistic interpretations of the disaster:
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