Mahwah Museum Reopens With New Exhibit

September 11, 2020

The Mahwah Museum has reopened! At this time, the Museum is open on Saturdays from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm.

Following state guidelines, the Museum will be operating at 25% capacity. This means only 10 persons at a time are allowed upstairs and 6 persons at a time will be allowed downstairs. Guests will be asked to wait outside if the Museum has reached capacity.

To ensure the safety of Museum guests and docents:

Everyone entering the Museum must wear a face covering.
The Museum will use a temperature gun at the entrance; anyone registering a fever will not be admitted.
Hand sanitizers will be available inside the Museum.
A one-way path has been created through the Museum and guests should stay stay 6 feet away from others
In the Donald Cooper Model Railroad area, the play train table, coloring book area and videos have been removed.

Revealed: Women’s Fight for the Right to Vote

The Museum will be featuring a new exhibit, Revealed: Women’s Fight for the Right to Vote, which is a revealing look at some of the toughest battles undertaken by women, several from New Jersey and New York, to win the right to vote.

2020 is the centennial year for the passage of the 19th Amendment. Suffragists, including New Jersey’s Alice Paul who pushed the boundaries of political and cultural courage, persisted despite arrests, prison terms, hunger strikes and forced-feedings in order to reach their goal. They challenged presidents and statesmen in order to achieve the passage of the 19th Amendment. This new exhibit tells the real story of how the vote was won.

The new exhibit will join ongoing exhibits Palisades Park in Miniature, A College Comes to Mahwah, Ramapo College 1965-1975 and permanent exhibits Les Paul in Mahwah, the Lee Vold Gallery and the Donald Cooper Model Railroad.

The Museum will be offering a series of webinars and online workshops during the 2020-2021 season. Virtual programs for the fall will include two guitar workshops, webinars on Palisades Amusement Park, the early years of Ridgewood, and Gene Paul on his father, Les Paul. There will also be two Ramapo College at 50 virtual programs. The Donald Cooper Model Railroad will be revealing its newest feature, the Trackside Drive-In.

Museum admission is free to members and children under the age of 18, $5 for non-members. Visit the Mahwah Museum website for more information, or call 201-512-0099.