Exhibits
North Shore Shipwrecks
“Shipwreck” and “sinking”—these words evoke vivid images in the minds of most people. Many probably think initially of the Titanic. All shipwrecks or sinkings, of course, don’t happen on that scale. This exhibit looks at a number of maritime sinkings that happened on the North Shore of Long Island in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Illustrations, photographs, and newspaper accounts, in addition to first-hand descriptions of such events, made an indelible impression on the area’s population. Although a number of such losses occurred on the Sound between Sea Cliff and Port Jefferson, the exhibit focuses on seven that were especially spectacular or significant.
Previous Exhibits
-The Pratt Family & Dosoris Park
-Nature Nurtures: A Photographic Journey
-The Automobile and the Gold Coast
-Harlem Renaissance
-All Aboard! Trains & Trolleys on the North Shore
-Art of the Tiffany Foundation
-100 Years of Children’s Books
-Morgan Park Summer Music Festival
-Treasures from the Glen Cove Mansions with Rick Smith
-The Harlem Hellfighters
-Art from the Coast Guard Foundation
-The Story of Glen Cove in 35 Objects
-Gold Coast Classrooms
-The Old Ball Game
-New York Woman Suffrage Centennial Celebration
-The North Shore Goes to the Polls
-The North Shore Worships: Diversity and Acceptance
-George Gach and the Gold Coast
-The Life of the Civil War Soldier
-Long Island at Work and Play
-World War I
-Arthur Leipzig
On Permanent Exhibit
-Paintings & Sculptures of George Gách (1909-1996)
-Butch the Bum
-Judges’ Chambers
-Jail Cell
-The Harlem Hellfighter Tribute Room and the World of 1918-1918
-Glen Cove Shops: featuring Charles of Glen Cove
-Maps and local ephemera from our permanent collection
-Stroppels
