Fall Events Set For Manhattan’s Merchant's House Museum
This fall, the Merchant's House Museum, "Manhattan's Most Haunted House" (according to The New York Times), offers a series of sophisticated, spine-tingling, and historically accurate events for the Halloween season. Kicking off with an exhibition of spirit photography from the 19th-century and today (opening September 29), visitors will also have the chance to take a Candlelight Ghost Tour, participate in an 1865 Funeral Reenactment, listen to Spine-Tingling and True stories of the supernatural, and attend a concert of Songs of Death & Enchantment.
Exhibition: In the Spirit - Modern Photographers Channel the 19th-CenturyDates: Thursday, September 29, through Monday, November 28
Time: Noon to 5 p.m. (closed Tuesday & Wednesday)
Location: Merchant's House Museum, 29 East Fourth Street (btwn Lafayette & Bowery)
Description: Historic and modern images, including 19th century spirit photographs (considered to be proof of communication with the spirits of departed loved ones) from The Burns Archive and other collectors will be shown alongside current works by Sally Mann, John Dugdale, Hal Hirshorn and RA Friedman - modern "medium" photographers who use early photographic techniques to capture atemporal scenes, images from an alternate world. Also on display will be eerie "spirit" photographs taken by amateurs and visitors in the Merchant's House Museum, "Manhattan's most haunted house," according to The New York Times. Included with regular admission, $10, $5 Students & Seniors.
Candlelight Ghost Tours of ‘Manhattan's Most Haunted House'
Dates: Friday & Saturday, October 21 & 22, Thursday - Saturday, October 27-29
Time: 50 Minute Tours begin every half hour from 6 to 9:30 p.m.
Location: Merchant's House Museum, 29 East Fourth Street (btwn Lafayette & Bowery)
Description: Come see the house The New York Times called "Manhattan's Most Haunted" by flickering candlelight and hear about strange and inexplicable occurrences from the people who actually experienced them. 6, 6:30, 7, 7:30 p.m. $25, 8, 8:30, 9 p.m. $30, 9:30 p.m. (includes fourth floor Servants Quarters) $40; MHM Members $13 all times.
From Parlor to Grave: 1865 Funeral Reenactment
Date: Sunday, October 30
Time: 3 to 5 p.m.
Location: Merchant's House Museum, 29 East Fourth Street (btwn Lafayette & Bowery)
Description: The parlors will be draped in black crape as we recreate the 1865 funeral of Seabury Tredwell. After the service, mourners are invited to follow the coffin to nearby New York City Marble Cemetery - rarely open to the public - for a tour. 19th-century mourning attire encouraged; black crape armbands will be provided. $30, $15 MHM Members; $10 Graveside Service & Cemetery Tour only.
Spine Tingling and True: Ghost Stories of the Merchant's House Museum
Date: Monday, October 31
Time: Performances at 7 & 8:30 p.m.
Location: Merchant's House Museum, 29 East Fourth Street (btwn Lafayette & Bowery)
Description: Merchant's House ghost-storytellers Anthony Bellov and Dayle Vander Sande will read selections from 19th-century horror classics, and tell of the many strange and supernatural occurrences at the Merchant's House Museum - in a parlor arranged for a mid-19th century funeral. $25, MHM Members $15.
Chant Macabre: Songs of Death & Enchantment
Date: Saturday, November 19
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Merchant's House Museum, 29 East Fourth Street (btwn Lafayette & Bowery)
Description: The Bond Street Euterpean Singing Society presents an atmospheric concert in the double parlors of the Merchant's House Museum, featuring 19th-century songs and classical arias. $25, MHM Members $15.
Celebrating Our 75th Year as a Museum (1936-2011)
The Merchant's House Museum is New York City's only family home preserved intact - inside and out - from the mid-19th century. Home to a prosperous merchant-class family and their staff of four Irish servants for almost 100 years, it is complete with the family's original furnishings and personal possessions, offering a rare and intimate glimpse of domestic life from 1835-1865.
"Not so much a museum as a raw slice of history" AVENUE Magazine
On the web: www.merchantshouse.org
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