Hope for the Holidays and Model Train Display

Monmouth Museum Opens “Hope for the Holidays”

The Holiday Season provides the opportunity to look forward to the future with anticipation and the expectation that despite adversity, better times are ahead. This shared experience of the positive human spirit, Hope, exists beyond borders and is not unique to any single country or belief system. Throughout time, Hope is woven into all cultures across the globe. On November 19, 2017 the Main Gallery art exhibition, Hope for the Holidays, the popular Model Train display, and the Museum’s Artisans Holiday Gift Gallery all open with a reception from 4:00pm - 6:00pm that is free and open to the public. The Monmouth Museum’s intent is to offer artists’ views of a positive future for their lives, our lives and our shared world.

Let’s look at the bright side this Holiday Season through the eyes and minds of children.

The Museum also offers a number of MMKIDS activities for the holiday season and vacation breaks starting with the Hope for the Holidays: Kids Edition opening reception on November 19th. Saturday, December 2nd at noon, Steve the Magician will put on a Winter Wonderland show for ages 3-12. Tickets can be purchased on the Museum website monmouthmuseum.org. On Sunday afternoons the Museum offers free MMKIDS holiday activities with paid admission culminating on December 31st with a New Year Celebration for children of all ages starting at 12pm. The MMKIDS will create noise makers, hats and masks in the Green Arts Studio of the Becker Children’s Wing. Then everyone will celebrate with a Happy New Year Parade through the Museum before gathering for a New Year’s Count Down at 2 pm to welcome in 2018 complete with a ginger ale toast!

This year’s Holiday Exhibition at the Museum will run through December 31, 2017. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10AM-5PM, on Sunday 12-5PM and Friday until 9PM.

The Monmouth Museum, is an independent, non-profit museum, founded in 1963 as a Museum of Ideas. It presents changing art, history, and science exhibitions to educate and entertain while providing a destination for creative expression and life-long learning to the diverse community it serves. For more information about the Monmouth Museum exhibits and programs their website is www.monmouthmuseum.org or call 732-747-2266. You can also find them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Admission is $8.00 for visitors age 2 and over. The Museum is located on the Brookdale Community College campus, 765 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, NJ 07738. Follow signs to Museum Drive and parking lot #1.