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Walter Elwood Museum Summer Camp 2022

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The Contemporary Wing

The Walter Elwood Museum is excited to announce our expansion into contemporary art  with a new 1,400 square foot exhibition space. The galleries will be curated by Amsterdam resident and artist Brent Birnbaum. Mr. Birnbaum has curated dozens of exhibitions individually and with Topless Gallery in Queens, NY. We are thrilled to bring artists working today from  around the world to the capital region.

Brent is represented by Denny Dimin Gallery in Manhattan. More about his art and curating can be found here: https://dennydimingallery.com/artists/brent-birnbaum/ https://www.brentbirnbaum.com/ http://www.rockawaytopless.com/ https://www.showsinspaces.com/

KIDS CLASSES ARE NOW FREE

Many Thanks to our Sponsors: Dr. & Mrs. Rao, CTW Foundation, Amsterdam Print, Fage Yogurt, The Children’s Aid Association, Mohawk Carpet Foundation, Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation, & Cranesville Block Co. for their annual support of our Camps! Camps are held every summer and every non-school holiday. All supplies are included in the camps.

Camps scheduled are Columbus Day 10/14 & Veteran’s Day 11/11. We also have camps on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, during Winter Recess/Spring Recess, and 4 weeks during the Summer. Please call the Museum for more information.

INTRODUCING OUR NEW CLASSROOM WING!

Thank you to the Summer Youth Employment Program, without you guys we would have never accomplished our new Educational Programming area.

2022 Ice Cream Social

Thank you to our Sponsors for helping make this year’s event a success:

• Mycek Law Firm
• USM Solutions
• Alpin Haus
• Stewart’s Shops
• Beckmann Converting
• Congressman Paul D. Tonko
• Fage USA Dairy Industry Inc.
• The Rotary Club of Amsterdam
• John Lauriello of SouthPace Properties
• Price Chopper/Market 32
• Hannaford

Thank you to our Vendors & Bakers for your continued support of our Ice Cream Social:

-Fidelis Care NY

-Bath Fitters

-Montgomery County Literacy Project

-Montgomery & Fulton County Dairy Promotion

-Tiffany Cridland

-Karen Zack

-Mary Ann Tomlinson

-Nellie Bush

-Noreen Gulnick

-Grace Frederes

-Colleen Medwid

-Tom Tracz

-Guy & Val Cappuccio

Click the link below to view our Summer/Fall 2021 Newsletter!

Frothingham’s Treasures Went to Museum
Who was Robert Frothingham and why write about him?

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The Leader-Herald

Walter Elwood Museum’s New Home
Check out this great article about the Museum’s grand reopening – happening soon.

 The Daily Gazette

Our New Home
The Walter Elwood Museum is excited to have finally secured our new site at 100 Church Street in the former Noteworthy Complex and historic Sanford & Sons Carpet Mills. We are working hard to relocate the collections and set up exhibits to open as soon as possible. If you are interested in helping please contact Ann at the Museum at 843-5151 and leave a message as we are busy moving every day we can. In addition, if you cannot help us please consider becoming a Museum member or making a contribution to the Museum Relocation Fund. Send all donations to Walter Elwood Museum at 100 Church Street, Amsterdam, NY 12010.

Walter Elwood Museum Receives Contribution
The Board of Trustees of the Walter Elwood Museum is pleased to announce the receipt of a grant of $4,000.00 awarded from Children’s Aid Association on April 9, 2013.

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Children’s Aid Donation

New Home
It’s been more than a year-and-a-half since Tropical Storm Irene forced the Walter Elwood Museum to close. But as YNN’s Maria Valvanis explains, the Amsterdam landmark finally has a massive new place to call home.

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Walter Elwood Museum Finally Finds New Home

New York Times
Click the link below to read the article in the New York Times from September 1, 2011.

New York Times

Hurricane Irene – The Day After
Pictures taken of the inside of the Museum the day after the flood.

Pictures by Bob Going, Board Trustee.

Hurricane Irene
Pictures of the flood during the height of the water taken from both sides of the river.

Pictures by Ann Peconie, Executive Director.

The Abraham Lincoln Exhibit
The Abraham Lincoln Exhibit, Self Man in America, was a great success after the Museum brought it to our area for a month from January 9 through February 4, 2010. Click below to see a great slide show of the national traveling exhibit as well as period artifacts from the WEM collection to complement and enhance the exhibit. Over 600 people visited the exhibit while it was in our area!

Follow the Link Below to download and view the Slide show

https://walterelwoodmuseumdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/abraham_lincoln-4.ppsx

New Photos Now Online
Check out Walter Elwood Museum historic photographs on the FMCC Evans Library web site. Click here to view.

Press Release: Ice Cream Social Best Ever!
The 27th Annual Ice Cream Social was the best ever. Thanks to all who attended and helped out.