Upcoming Exhibitions in the Town Hall/Market House
Footfalls of the Famous
May 8, 2010–December 31, 2010
This exhibition will tell the story of the many famous figures who have visited our region throughout history.
Upcoming Exhibitions in the Catherine W. Jones McKann Center
History Through a Lens: Photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston
Mansard Gallery
Opening March 27
In the spring, the Museum will mount an exhibition featuring the photography of an important American woman in the field, Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952). In 1927 Johnston was granted private local funding to produce a photographic survey of important early buildings, private residences and gardens, vernacular architecture in the City of Fredericksburg and Stafford County, Virginia, as well as important sites farther afield. The outcome of her efforts, 247 images, was publicly displayed in May of 1929 in the Town Hall, one of the two sites comprising the present day Fredericksburg Area Museum and Cultural Center. Eighty years later, and after many of those structures have been lost to decay or demolition, the museum will recreate Johnston’s 1929 show on a smaller scale. This show will run concurrently with a show at Belmont titled Belmont Through a Lens: Photographs by France Benjamin Johnston.
Visitors to either museum may present their admission ticket at the other site to receive discounted entry.
This exhibit is being presented in partnership with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Becoming American
Mansard Gallery
Opening July 1
The Museum's first Smithsonian exhibition in nearly ten years, Becoming American features 59 black and white photographs of young immigrants by accomplished documentary photographer Barbara Beirne. Each photo is paired with excerpts from Berine's interviews with teens from Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Faithful to their native cultural traditions, but motivated to create a better life for themselves and their families, teenage immigrants have a unique vantage point from which to remind us what it means, and what it has always meant, to be American.
Becoming American: Teenagers and Immigration, Photographs by Barbara Beirne, was organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)
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