Exhibits, special shows, tours and general information
The Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Phila., Amazon Voyage: Vicious Fishes and Other Riches, through Dec. 31, $10, $8.25 seniors, $8 military personnel/students/ages 3-12, free under 3; hours: Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Sat.-Sun. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; www.ansp.org
Cranbury Museum, 4 Park Place East, Cranbury, Heart of the Home — An American Kitchen of the 1930s-1940s, retro exhibit featuring textiles, tableware and kitchen items of the Great Depression and WWII eralocal antiques recreating mid-19th century home, special exhibit room of local and Native American artifacts, Civil War itemswww.cranburyhistory.org
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Morris Gallery, 118 N. Broad St., Phila., Selections from the Permanent Collection, through Sept. 29www.pafa.orgwww.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org
Field Artillery Annex, New Jersey Militia Museum, Army National Guard Armory, 151 Eggerts Crossing Road, Lawrence, pictures, vehicles, weapons and uniforms of New Jersey artillery soldiers from the Revolution through the conflict in IraqFonthill, East Corner Street and Route 313, Doylestown, Pa.; hours: Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun. noon-5 p.m., last tour 4 p.m., museum admission: $9, $8 seniors, $4 under 18, free BCHS members; (215) 348-9461.
Grounds For Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton, Toad Hall Shop & Gallery, Infusion w/glass works by Martin Kremer, through Oct. 14Richard Jolley, Sculptor of Glass from 1985-Present and Reminiscence, through Sept. 23www.groundsforsculpture.org
Historical Society of Princeton, Bainbridge House, 158 Nassau St., Princeton, Princeton in the 1930s, through July 13Sunday Walking Tour of Princeton, 1.9 mile guided tour, allow two hours, meet outside at 2 p.m., no res., $7, $4 age 6-12; hours: Tue.-Sun., 12-4 p.m.; (609) 921-6748; www.princetonhistory.org
Historic Rockingham, Kingston-Rocky Hill Road, Kingston, tour George Washington’s final Revolutionary War headquarters, living history museum and gardenwww.rockingham.net
Hopewell Museum, 28 E. Broad St., Hopewell, period rooms and antiques depicting local history from Colonial days to the presentHowell Living History Farm, 101 Hunter Road, Titusville, Back to School: featuring educational, social and cultural activities at one-room schoolhouse, Sept. 15, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., craft: pencil box, $3; (609) 737-3299; www.howellfarm.org
Hunterdon Museum of Art, 7 Lower Center St., Clinton, 51st annual National Juried Print Exhibition, through Sept. 16Wally Barnette: Recent Work, through Sept. 16Gregory Perkel: Manuscripts of the Cardboard Culture, through Sept. 16www.hunterdonartmuseum.org
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 118 S. 36th St., Phila., Ensemble: works that make sounds, through Dec. 16Between Us: photo-based objects by Eileen Neff, through Dec. 16installations by Jay Heikes and Taalman Koch, through Dec. 16www.icaphila.org
Lambertville Historical Society, Marshall House, 62 Bridge St., Lambertville, Lambertville Roots: Evolution of a River Town, ongoing; hours: Sat.-Sun. 1-4 p.m., $3; (609) 397-0770; www.lambertvillehistoricalsociety.org
Mercer Museum, 84 S. Pine St., Doylestown, Pa., Are We Dressed Yet? Accessories and the Stories They Tell, Sept. 15-May 31program: Baubles, Bangles & Bags, verbal appraisals on antique jewelry and purses, Sept. 15, 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m., $5/item (max. 5 items/person); Presentation by antique dealer Nula Thanhouser on signature pocketbooks and antique purses, attendees may bring their own, Sept. 17, 12:30 p.m.; hours: Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tue. until 9 p.m., Sun. noon-5 p.m.; $8, $7 seniors, $4 age 5-17, BCHS members and under 5 free; (215) 348-0210; www.mercermuseum.org
James A. Michener Art Museum, 138 S. Pine St., Doylestown, Pa., Philip Pearlstein: The Dispassionate Body 16 large-scale nude paintings, Sept. 15-Jan. 6Fire and Ice: combat drawings and watercolors by Marine Warrant Officer Michael Fay, through Oct. 21Soldier: photographic portraits of military men and woman returned from deployments by Suzanne Opton, through Oct. 21Outdoor Sculpture Installation, Roger Loos, through Oct. 21Excursions: video art by Peter Rose, through Nov. 25www.michenerartmuseum.org
James A. Michener Art Museum – New Hope, Union Square, Bridge Street, New Hope, Pa., Gershwin to Gillespie, Portraits in American Music, through Oct. 7www.michenerartmuseum.org
Monmouth Museum, Brookdale Community College Campus, Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, Pat Brentano – Drawings, Sept. 14-Oct. 14, reception Sept. 14, 6-8 p.m., artist’s talk Oct. 3, 7-8 p.m.; hours: Mon.-Sat. 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Sun. 12:30-4:30 p.m.; (732) 747-2266; www.monmouthmuseum.org
Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton St., Princeton, Wilson 150: The Exhibition, a traveling exhibit organized by the Woodrow Wilson House, a National Trust Historic Site in Washington, D.C., through Nov. 18www.morven.org
Museum of the American Hungarian Foundation, 300 Somerset St., New Brunswick, DOMJAN 100 Dynamic color: paintings by Joseph Domjan, Sept. 23-March 1, reception Sept. 23, 2-5 p.m.; hours: Tue.-Sat. 11 a.m-4 p.m., Sun. 1-4 p.m.; (732) 846-5777.
Museum of the American Philosophical Society, 104 S. Fifth St., Philadelphia, Undaunted: Five American Explorers, 1760–2007, through Dec. 28, donation; hours: Thu.-Sun. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Wed. 5-8 p.m.; (215) 440-3442; www.amphilsoc.org/exhibitions
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 3260 South Street, Phila., River of Gold: Precolumbian Treasures from Sitio conte, Sept. 23-Dec. 16www.museum.upenn.edu
New Jersey State Museum, 205 W. State St., Trenton, "Fancy Rockingham" Pottery: The Modeler and Ceramics in Nineteenth-Century America, through May, free; hours: Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m., Sat. 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; www.newjerseystatemuseum.org
Old Barracks Museum, Barrack Street, Trenton, Remarkable For His Industry: William Richards, Trade & Manufactory in Revolutionary Trenton, through July, $8, $6 seniors, students, children; hours: daily 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; (609) 396-1776; www.barracks.org
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, 118-128 N. Broad St., Phila., Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westermann, through Sept. 16Out of the Chateau: Works from the Demuth Museum, 34 works by modernist and PAFA alumnus Charles Demuth (1883-1935), Sept. 22-Dec. 19www.pafa.org
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Phila., Japanese Literati Culture in the Edo Period, through summerCelebrate Korea: A Decade of Collecting, through summerCelebrating American Craft: 30 Years of the Philadelphia Museum Art Craft Show, through Sept. 30Pop Art and Its Influence, through Sept. 30The Bizarre and the Beautiful: Silks of the Eighteenth Century, through Sept. 30Art After Five a Friday series of concerts, cocktails, desserts and evening gallery tours, performances at 5:45 and 7:15 p.m.; hours: Tue.-Sun. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Fri. 10 a.m.-8:45 p.m.; admission: $12, $9 seniors, $8 students, pay-what-you-wish Sun.; (215) 763-8100; www.philamuseum.org
Plainsboro Museum, 641 Plainsboro Road, Plainsboro, explore Plainsboro’s bygone daysPrinceton Doll and Toy Museum, 8 Somerset St., Hopewell, Of Mice and Miniatures and Dolls With Famous Faces, through Oct. 15The Evolution of Dolls and Toys from 1600 to Present, Alice in Wonderland and Storybook Houses, on extended view; doll and toy gift shop and free research library, $5 adult, $3 children; hours: Mon., Fri.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; (609) 333-8600.
The Trenton City Museum, Ellarslie Mansion in Cadwalader Park, Parkway Avenue, Trenton, The World Dines Out: 100 Years at Trenton’s Lamberton Works, featuring commercial and fine china once produced at the city’s Lamberton Works, ongoing with many related events; hours: Tue.-Sat. 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Sun. 1-4 p.m.; (609) 989-3632; www.ellarslie.org
The William Trent House, 15 Market St., Trenton, Fresh From the Garden Fridays, Fri. through Oct. 26, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.; (609) 989-3027; www.williamtrenthouse.org
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton St., New Brunswick, The Heritage of the Russian Avant-Garde: Vladimir Sterligov and His School, through Oct. 14Selections from the David and Mildred Morse Collection, through Oct. 21A New Reality: Black-and- White Photography in Contemporary Art, through Jan. 27A Sense of Place: Children’s Book Illustrations by Catherine Stock, through Jan. 27Calculation and Impulse: Abstract American Prints, through Feb. 3Printmaking from Soviet Estonia: Part 2, through Jan. 27Art at Lunch lectures, first, third Wed. 12:15 p.m.; hours: Tue.-Fri. 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Sat.-Sun. noon-5 p.m., $3 members, free children, free first Sun.; (732) 932-7237; www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu
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