Waterfront Museum and Showboat Barge Announces Event Listings

The Waterfront Museum and Showboat Barge has released its event listings for 2010.

On January 13, 2010 at 9pm EST, the Waterfront Museum will be the backdrop for an episode of Food Network's "Throwdown with Bobby Flay", featuring Court Street's Fish Tales Seafood Market.

April welcomes Earth Day with the world premier of "A Thousand Thousand Slimy Things" presented byPolybe & Seats about mermaids, the ocean, and environmental change.

If it's June, it must be CIRCUSundays! Artistic Director Karen Gersch of "Acrobrats" brings exciting variety and dexterity to Red Hook for two performances each Sunday in June.

June 10th brings the ever-popular Brave New World Repertory Theatre in a salon fundraiser of Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw. The English comedy takes place in a house owned by a Captain and decorated like a SHIP!

New Exhibition Coming in 2010: "Tugboat Art" by Richard Samuelson.

In addition to our Red Hook homeport plans, we're planning a spring and fall Tug & Barge Tour 2010 to various ports of call that may include Hoboken, Hudson River Park Pier 84, Waterford, Kingston, and Poughkeepsie. New possible destinations include Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6, Gateway Park in the Rockaways, Harlem and Yonkers.

The museum also offers free open boat tours on Thursdays 4-8 and Saturdays 1-5. The current exhibition is 'Showboat: Round the Bend'.

For more information on these events, please click here.