2012 – Greenbelt’s 75th Anniversary Year

Sunday, January 8: An Artful Afternoon. 1-4pm,  Greenbelt Community Center
Greenbelt’s 75th Anniversary Celebration Begins!

For information about activities throughout the year, visit www.greenbeltmd.gov/75

1:00pm-3:00pm: Make a wrist cuff with Celestine Ranney-Howes. Sizes and styles for boys and girls, women and men!
2:30pm: Free drawing – ballot box closes. Enter by this time to win pottery or Greenbelt Arts Center tickets. Online entries accepted here.
2:45pm: Dedication of the “Faces of Greenbelt” ceramic tile artwork
3:00pm: 75th Anniversary Celebration opening remarks by Mayor Davis
3:10pm: Bel Cantanti Opera presents Mozart’s one-act musical parody Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario)
1:00pm-4:00pm: Artists’ studio open house; visit the art gallery

2012 Lecture Series

The Greenbelt Museum sponsors a free  quarterly lecture series in the Greenbelt Community Center. Topics focus on the period of the Great Depression to World War II and deal with history, material culture, social studies and art history.  In 2012, the Museum plans to feature topics related to Greenbelt’s 75th Anniversary. Lectures are held the third Tuesday of the month in January, April, July, and October, at 7:30pm in the Multipurpose Room # 201 in the Greenbelt Community Center, 15 Crescent Road, Greenbelt MD 20770.  To receive notices about upcoming programs,
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012, 7:30pm  -   Behind the Scenes of the new book Images of America: Greenbelt

 Join FOGM Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 7:30pm for our next lecture, a book talk by co-author Megan Searing Young about how she and co-author Jill Parsons St. John wrote and chose images for the new Arcadia book, Images of America: Greenbelt. Books will be for sale.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 7:30pm  – Greenbelt Maryland: Beyond the Iconic Legacy by Isabelle Gournay and Mary Corbin Sies

Tuesday, July 17, 7:30pm – International Greenbelt

 

2011  Holiday Events

 2011 Holiday Open House

We hope you’ll join us for our annual holiday open house!  If you’re in town, stroll over to the Greenbelt Museum’s historic house at 10B Crescent Road, following the city’s tree lighting. (If you live farther afield, come on by, there’s free parking across the street behind the public library.) Sip warm cider, take a free tour of the house which sparkles at night with holiday decorations, and peruse the gift shop which will be freshly stocked with new holiday merchandise. We’ll have the new Greenbelt book published by Arcadia, Images of America: Greenbelt, a new Cats Meow of the original gas station, and lots of vintage style toys for stocking stuffers. For information: greenbeltmuseum.org, museum@greenbeltmd.gov, or call 301-507-6582.   See you there!

 2011 Festival of Lights

Once again this year, the Greenbelt Museum will have items for sale at the annual Festival of Lights Art and Craft Fair held in the Greenbelt Community Center. Shop local and find unique gifts for everyone on your list. For more information about Festival of Lights, visit http://www.greenbeltmd.gov/recreation/index.htm

 

2011 Lecture Series

The Greenbelt Museum sponsors a free  quarterly lecture series in the Greenbelt Community Center. Topics focus on the period of the Great Depression to World War II and deal with history, material culture, social studies and art history.  In 2011, the Museum plans to feature topics related to the new Museum exhibit, Green from the Start: A History of Gardening in Greenbelt. Lectures are held the third Tuesday of the month in January, April, July, and October, at 7:30pm in the Multipurpose Room # 201 in the Greenbelt Community Center, 15 Crescent Road, Greenbelt MD 20770.  To receive notices about upcoming programs,
sign up for our free newsletter!

PAST LECTURES

July 19, 2011 – A Preservation Evening

 Sip lemonade by lantern light while learning about the historic fabric of our community! Join us for an old fashioned garden party with a brief informative talk about the architectural significance of the Museum’s 1937 cinderblock home. Special guest: historic preservationist Michael Leventhal, a winner of the 2011 Secretary of the Interior Historic Preservation Awards, recognizing outstanding contributions to the preservation of historic places. Greenbelt Museum Historic House, 10B Crescent, Greenbelt, MD  20770.  Free parking available across the street behind the public library.  Program offered in conjunction with the exhibition, Green from the Start: A History of Gardening in Greenbelt.

 

 

April 19, 2011   - Designing an Urban Potager with Cynthia Brown 

A traditional French kitchen garden – potager – mingles vegetables, fruits, flowers and herbs to make the function of providing food for the table aesthetically pleasing.  An urban potager uses every inch of available space, growing edibles and ornamentals on balconies, patios, porches and rooftops. Cindy Brown will eliminate excuses for excluding edibles with suggestions on what edibles to grow, unusual ways to grow them and how to do it all with style!  

Cynthia A. Brown is the Smithsonian Gardens’ Education Specialist and Manager of Collections and Education. She enjoys entertaining the public with her gardening trials and tribulations and is a regular contributor to Washington Gardener magazine and the Washington Post blog AllWeCanEat/Groundworks. She is a frequent speaker at many venues.

 January 18, 2011- Planning Your Own Victory Garden, Screening of historic short film

Mid-winter is traditionally the time that avid gardeners begin poring over seed and spring bulb catalogs. It’s the perfect time to start planning your spring garden whether you’d like to grow vegetables or flowers.

 

 

Join the Museum for a screening of an instructional video from the 1940s which details how a Maryland family plans their very own Victory Garden. Follow them through the process and learn tips for how to make the most of your  garden. Discussion to follow the film.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Seed to Supper:  A History of School Gardens and Their Role in Children’s Health

Tuesday, May 18, 2010,  7:30pm

Over the past decade there has been a resurgence in the school garden movement and plant-based education. School gardens have been used for a variety of purposes including plant and nature study, mathematics, language arts, art, entomology, physical education, home economics, cooperative learning, spiritual development, beautification, nutrition, social reform, food production, community service and even patriotism. Recent studies have shown that children who are a part of the process of growing and cooking their own food increase their fruit and vegetable consumption and live healthier lifestyles. This program will focus on the history of school gardens along with how gardening has been used successfully as a tool for improving eating habits and cultivating life skills in children.

 

Broadcasting to America: A Trip Through the Radio and Television Museum

March 16, 2010  7:30pm

Today people take for granted the Internet, cell phones, satellite communication, and cable TV with dozens of channels. Life in the early decades of the 20thcentury was markedly different. Just imagine what a thrill it must have been for people in the 1920s when they heard their first radio program! Did you know that in the 1920s, a top-of-the-line radio cost nearly as much as an automobile? When the first television sets appeared in stores, wide-eyed people clustered several deep in front of the show windows. Brian Belanger used images from the Radio & Television Museum, as well as examples of several different radios to remind us about how radio & TV broadcasting have changed our lives.  This event was attended by 44 people!

Lakeland Community Heritage Project

January 19, 2010

Learn about Lakeland, the historical African American community of College Park formed around 1890 on the doorstep of the Maryland Agricultural College, now University of Maryland. The story of Lakeland is the tale of a community that was established and flourished in a segregated society and developed its own institutions and traditions, including the area’s only high school for African Americans, built in 1928. Members of the Lakeland Community Heritage Project will discuss both the history of Lakeland and the experience of publishing a community history through Arcadia Press.

Do you have an idea for a possible lecture, please contact the Museum Director at 301-507-6582 or museum@greenbeltmd.gov.

Programs for Kids 

The Greenbelt Museum is happy to design tours and/or activities for children and students of all ages. Tours of the museum can be customized for specific subjects or lesson plans. Home schooling groups are also welcome. Please contact Museum staff at 240-542-2064 or greenbeltmuseumedu@gmail.com for more information.