?Liberty Hall Museum will usher in its popular holiday season with the debut of its much-anticipated Christmas tour, Deck the Halls: Fifty Years of Christmas Decorations, on Friday, November 28.
Liberty Hall Museum at Kean University has announced its September programming, highlighted by the museum's second annual Great Gatsby Party tonight, September 20 (7 p.m. - 11 p.m.).
Liberty Hall Museum at Kean University has announced its September programming, highlighted by the museum's second annual Great Gatsby Party on Saturday, September 20 (7 p.m. - 11 p.m.). This year's lavish reception will feature handcrafted hors d'oeuvres, 1920s-inspired cocktails, period music, dancing and gambling. Guests are encouraged to don vintage or reproduction Prohibition-era attire, as many did when the museum threw its first such themed event last summer.
Liberty Hall Museum at Kean University will welcome the Alexander Hamilton Awareness (AHA) Society this weekend as part of the Society's third annual CelebrateHAMILTON festival.
Liberty Hall Museum has announced it will host an additional Downton Abbey Luncheon on Saturday, February 8 (Noon - 3 p.m.), after January's event and a second Downton Abbey Luncheon scheduled for February 22 sold out in record time. 'We are excited that Downton Abbey is back on the air, but we never dreamed that so many of our guests would be as well,' said Bill Schroh, Jr., Director of Museum Operations. 'Our Downton Abbey trivia game during the January luncheon was one of the toughest I have ever seen. Every guest had their arm raised ready to answer every question. I hope the rest of the Luncheons are just as fun.'
Liberty Hall Museum will celebrate Downton Abbey's eagerly anticipated fourth season with an elegant Downton Abbey Luncheon today, January 18 (Noon to 3 pm).
Liberty Hall Museum will celebrate Downton Abbey's eagerly anticipated fourth season with an elegant Downton Abbey Luncheon on Saturday, January 18 (Noon to 3 pm). This stylish buffet, billed as fit for "the Crawleys themselves," includes dessert and a selection of red or white wine. Admission is $50.00 per person, and includes an intimate, guided tour of the museum, the former residence of New Jersey's first elected governor, William Livingston.
Liberty Hall Museum's much-anticipated Christmas tour, From St. Nicholas to Santa Claus, begins this Friday, kicking off a spate of exciting holiday programming and events at the museum, the home of New Jersey's first elected governor, William Livingston. A celebration of five distinct Christmas traditions and eras in history, From St. Nicholas to Santa Claus focuses on the Dutch tradition of St. Nicholas (c. 1774), the English tradition of Twelfth Night (c. 1800), 'The Night Before Christmas' (c. 1848), a Victorian Christmas (c. 1899), and a WWII Christmas (c. 1942). Beginning Friday, November 29th, tours will be available Monday through Saturday, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Admission is $6.00 for children, college students and seniors; $8.00 for Kean University alumni; and $10.00 for adults. There is no cost for children under the age of three.
A record-breaking 788 people attended Liberty Hall Museum's annual harvest celebration on October 26th, signaling the museum - the former residence of New Jersey's first elected governor, William Livingston - may be enjoying its most successful fall to date.
Premiere Stages at Kean University will present free interactive Staged Readings of the 2013-2014 Liberty Live Commission, At Liberty Hall by James Christy, November 8th through 10th in the University Center Little Theatre at Kean University. The story of an unlikely pair of American immigrants, At Liberty Hall follows two high school students who've just moved to New Jersey: Christian Rosario, a funny but unfocused teenager from Queens by way of the Dominican Republic; and Alexander Hamilton, 16, the subject of Christian's 10th grade history project. This time-bending story finds common threads of humor, honor and awkwardness as told through the experiences of a someday-Founding Father and a kid looking for a way out of the projects.
Liberty Hall Museum at Kean University has announced it will host an exquisite Governors' Ball on its grounds the evening of Monday, April 29. Governor Chris Christie will serve as Honorary Chairman of the event, with a number of New Jersey's former governors expected to attend. The Governors' Ball will mark Governor Christie's first visit to Liberty Hall Museum, the former home of New Jersey's first elected governor, William Livingston, and six successive generations of the prominent Livingston and Kean families.
In anticipation of Opening Day and the resumption of public tours April 1st, Liberty Hall Museum has announced it will offer a full slate of seasonal and special events throughout the month of March, as well as introduce an ambitious new initiative this summer: the Liberty Hall Museum Community Farmers Market.
On the heels of November's successful food drive benefiting the Food Bank of Ocean and Monmouth Counties and victims of Hurricane Sandy, Liberty Hall's season of giving continued with the joyful delivery of over three hundred toys to the Picatinny Visitors Center in Dover, New Jersey on December 18th. With the help of Kean University students, faculty and staff, Liberty Hall Museum was able to collect 367 toys on behalf of Toys for Tots.
Liberty Hall Museum at Kean University (Union, NJ) will travel back in time as it hosts Brigade of the American Revolution, the renowned living history association.
Liberty Hall Museum at Kean University (Union, NJ) will travel back in time as it hosts Brigade of the American Revolution, the renowned living history association.
Liberty Hall Museum at Kean University celebrates Valentine's Day with a series of special events throughout the month of February. Visitors can enjoy seasonal activities and take in the museum's impressive collection of artifacts in the historic Victorian mansion of New Jersey's first elected governor, William Livingston.
Liberty Hall Museum at Kean University celebrates Valentine's Day with a series of special events throughout the month of February. Visitors can enjoy seasonal activities and take in the museum's impressive collection of artifacts in the historic Victorian mansion of New Jersey's first elected governor, William Livingston.