Bellefonte Museum for
Families of Centre County
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
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2010 Exhibition Schedule |
It’s Our Birthday Year!
The Linn House, home to the Bellefonte Museum for Centre County, will be 200 Years old and the Bellefonte Women’s Club will be 100 this year!
Special
Birthday Party for Linn House Bicentennial and The 100th anniversary
of the Bellefonte Women’s Club, May 16, 2010, 2 to 4 pm
Sponsored and Hosted by Bellefonte
Women’s Club, Millie Ragosta and the Board of Directors, Bellefonte Museum
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Public invited free of charge to Birthday Party
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“Society Silk Embroidery, 1876 - 1914 ”
April 11- July 25, 2010
The exhibition consists of Victorian needlework done by American women for home decoration, pleasure and profit, and some related materials, instruction manuals and periodicals of the time. The American silk industry and the needlework created by American women contributed to changes in culture, labor and to the economy of Pennsylvania.
Curator and collector - Shelley Kempner
Family activities at the museum include a chance to embroider with period silks.
And
“Landscape: Pennsylvania”
Jennifer Shuey, artist
Exhibition opening reception, free to the public
Sunday, April 11, 2010, 1 to 4:30 PM
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A
deliciously decadent experience:
**Tea at the Museum - June 2, 2010**
more dates to be announced
Call Dona Goldman for reservations: 814 355 3692
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Future
shows: August - September- October – November
“30 years of Manipulating the Image”
Photography art by Norris Lacy
“Where Art is Joy: Art from Haiti”
Curator – Patricia House
Opening reception dates to be announced