Past Exhibitions

Hellenic Heritage Collection List of Donors Peter A. Adams Helene Agalias Constance Angelica Aloupis Rev. James A. Aloupis Angelica Skopelitis Anderson Paul Andrews Helen Angelides John Antonakos Ann Apostolakos Angelina H. Aretakis Esther Argyris Thomas A. Argyris...

Changed Lives Museum 2001-2003 NJHS MUSEUM COLLECTION ACCESSION LEDGER OF ITEMS FOR CHANGED LIVES COLLECTION Updated 1/29/04

Pride of Newark: Baseball's Bears and Eagles (2000-2001) Pride of Newark: Baseball's Bears and Eagles traced the story of two teams and how the segregation that separated them affected other aspects of social life in Newark in the 1930s and 1940s.

Assembled for a Noble Purpose: The Collections of The New Jersey Historical Society (October 1994 - March 1995) Distinct periods in the Historical Society's collecting history reflected the changing attitudes about the things people chose to collect and preserve over...

  Dining In, Dining Out (1999-2001) Dining In, Dining Out traced how we use traditions involving food to build and sustain our families and communities. Received a Certificate of Commendation from the American Association of State and Local History.  

Paul Robeson: Bearer of a Culture (1998-1999) Paul Robeson: Bearer of a Culture marked the 100th birthday of a pivotal American cultural figure who was born and raised in New Jersey. (From the Paul Robeson Foundation)  

Up on the Boardwalk, Down By the Sea (1998-1999) Up on the Boardwalk, Down By the Sea captured 100 years of Atlantic City life in photographs, diaries and maps. (From the Atlantic City Historical Museum, photographs from the Corbis Collection)

Teenage New Jersey 1945-1971 (1997-1998) Teenage New Jersey looked at how teen culture in New Jersey defined what it meant to be a teenager in the United States from the 1940s until the 1970s. Named the best exhibition of 1998 by the American Association of Museums...

Labor Nobilitat: 100 Years of the Orange Memorial Hospital School of Nursing (February - May 1997) In this exhibition, a collection donated to The New Jersey Historical Society of photographs, documents, and costumes documented the roles of students from the Orange...

Urban Oasis: Newark's Mt. Pleasant Cemetery (1993 - 1994) This show explored Newark’s Mt. Pleasant Cemetery — the city’s first "rural cemetery" through paintings, prints, objects, and contemporary photographs, looking at such issues as Victorian notions of mourning,...