Kids Create!

$5/person; children 5 and under FREE

Join us for another Kids Create STEM Saturday Event with author/illustrator Rachel Dougherty

Hands on activities and labs for children and families of all ages and abilities including a learning lab session on underwater caissons with NJ geologist Pierre Lacombe!

Kids Create will run throughout the day on July 20, 2019, from 11:00a.m. to 4:00p.m.

Experience the Roebling legacy with your children, through STEAM learning and play! Pre-registration is encouraged but not required.

Emily Roebling STEAM Day Camp!

“ Water and Industry ”

August 5 – 9, 2019

10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

$250 per camper for non-members; $230 per camper for Roebling Museum Members

The Roebling Museum is excited to host its 7^th annual summer camp, August 5 –9, 2019 from 10:00am – 3:00pm daily.

Explore technology and history at the Roebling Museum’s Emily Roebling STEAM Day Camp. Students going into 5th through 8th grades this fall can join our experienced educators to supplement their education in science, technology, engineering, arts/architecture and mathematics (STEAM).

This year’s theme is Water and Industry… Campers will explore the importance of the Delaware River, study the use of underwater caissons to build bridges and other structures, build an engineering project with professional engineers from the Parsons Corporation, and visit to the SPLASH Steamboat Floating Classroom.

Tuition includes field trips, lunch and snacks daily.  Applications MUST be received by July 31st.

Named for Emily Warren Roebling, the courageous wife of Washington Roebling, who helped to build the Brooklyn Bridge and became widely regarded as the world’s first female field “engineer,” the Emily Roebling STEAM Day Camp is open to elementary and middle school girls and boys in 5^th thru 8^th grades.  Guided by experienced STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) and museum educators, students will discover the science of bridge, civil and structural engineering. These well-rounded junior engineers will also learn about the history of the Roebling factory, village, and workers. They will learn about the technology behind famous Roebling products like wire rope, and acquire the engineering skills needed to design and build their own structures. This year we will focus on the building blocks of the Roebling Company both literally and figuratively, while we discuss and experiment with casting and brick-making and building, among many other topics.

This year’s camp will be 5 days. As always, parents and guardians are invited and encouraged to arrive early for pick-up on the last day of camp, to see and enjoy the camp-goers’ final products, and to celebrate their accomplishments. Activities during the week will include a field trip, hands-on STEM labs and experiments, and opportunities to meet and work with experienced and emerging STEM/STEAM professionals.

Camp registration forms are available below or at the museum.  Tuition for the week includes daily lunch and snacks, and is $250 per camper for Non-Members, $230 per camper for Roebling Museum Members. Through the generosity of the New Jersey Historical Commission (a division of the Department of State), several regional foundations, corporate sponsors, and private donors, Roebling Museum makes camp tuition scholarships available for students eligible for free and reduced lunch. Parent(s)/guardian(s) seeking camp tuition support are asked to provide a written request, addressed to the camp director. Email the Roebling Museum at rmuseum@roeblingmuseum.org for more information.

You may pay by credit card on-line but applications must be emailed to rmuseum@roeblingmuseum.org or mailed to the Roebling Museum, PO Box 9, Roebling, NJ 08554 by the July 31 deadline.

2019 STEAM Camp Application

The Roebling Museum received an Operating Support Grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State, as well as support from Investors Foundation, Roma Bank Community Foundation, MKM Foundation, NJM Insurance and PSEG Foundation. Additional support provided by: Janie Schildge, Jeff Krusen, Allison Moore, Ellis Family Foundation, Bill and Linda McDonald, and The Dean and Jenny Fund.

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Calling ALL Roebling, NJ Gardeners!!!
Saturday, June 1st from 10am-3pm in the
Historic Village of Roebling, New Jersey

When the Roebling steel plant was open and homes were supplied by the company, many of the workers and their families grew beautiful gardens. Often the company would sponsor competitions to allow the residents to show off their gardens.

We want to revive that tradition by providing a chance to show off your front yard or back yard garden. On Saturday, June 1 (rain day, June 2), the Roebling Museum will sponsor a town tour showing off our wonderful gardens. If you want be part of the tour, let us know. We will include you on the tour map.

Message, email or call the Roebling Museum by May 5th to put your Roebling garden on the tour!
robin.lovenduski@roeblingmuseum.org or 609-499-7200.

Tour tickets are currently available on this website! The garden show and tours will serve as a fundraiser for the Roebling Museum, a nonprofit organization. Go to: http://roeblingmuseum.org/events/roebling-museum-garden-tour/ to purchase your tickets today!

Sponsored by:

Join us for another installment of the Roebling Museum’s monthly Saturday Lecture Series

Saturday, May 11th from 1pm-4pm at Roebling Museum
$7 General Admission; $6 Museum Members

From the Fordham University Press website:
Named a Gift Book for the Discerning New Yorker by The New York Times

“In the Shadow of Genius” is the newest book by photographer and author Barbara Mensch. The author combines her striking photographs with a powerful first-person narrative. She takes the reader on a unique journey by recalling her experiences living alongside the bridge for more than 30 years, and then by tracing her own curious path to understand the brilliant minds and remarkable lives of those who built it: John, Washington, and Emily Roebling.

Many of Mensch’s photographs were inspired by her visits to the Roebling archives housed at Rutgers University, where she pieced together through notebooks, diaries, letters, and drawings the seminal locations and events that affected their lives. Following in their footsteps, Mensch traveled to Muhlhausen, Germany, the birthplace of John Roebling; to Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, where Roebling established a utopian community in 1831; to Roebling aqueducts and bridges in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York; and to the Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where Washington Roebling, the son of the famous engineer, valiantly served as a Union soldier. The book begins and ends with Mensch’s unique photographs of the Brooklyn Bridge, including never-before-seen images captured deep within the structure. The book creatively fuses contemporary photography with the historical record, giving the reader a new perspective on contemplating the masterwork.

Fernanda Perrone, Curator of Special Collections and the Roebling Family Archive at Rutgers University, has contributed a Foreword.”

Advance reservations are strongly recommended. If you do not wish to purchase your ticket on-line, please call the museum at 609/499-7200 to reserve your seat.

Saturday, May 25, 2019 at 8:30 AM – 7 PM

All aboard! Leaving from the historic South Jersey site where the Roebling Museum makes its home in Roebling, New Jersey, we’ll take a day-trip to the famed NY borough of Brooklyn. Home of the most loved and iconic bridges in the world, and the most amazing shopping, eating and outdoor experiences, too!

Our friend, Dom Gervasi of Made in Brooklyn Tours will lead our excursion for the day. From stunning views of the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, to the River Cafe and DUMBO Park…to the a walk along the waterfront of the East River, a visit to the Brooklyn Historical Society Annex, pix of the most famous view of the Empire State Building through a very special “lens,” and much more, you won’t want to miss this trip! Experience a bit of the Roebling legacy for yourself…in Brooklyn!

$90 per person. Tickets on sale soon at roeblingmuseum.org and by phone at 609-499-7200. Price includes travel to and from Brooklyn by coach bus, 4-hour professionally guided walking tour with multiple stops/sites, and a gourmet Brooklyn-made chocolate treat. Lunch at on your own at Empire Store with Time Out New York. (Tour participants will need an est. $20-$30 for lunch.) Bus departs from Roebling Museum before 9am and returns at 7pm. Free parking at the Museum. Participants can arrive as early as 8am on the day of the trip for a self-guided tour of the Roebling Museum and lite continental breakfast and coffee.

****The first 10 paid registrants for this bus tour will receive a special hand-made gift, courtesy of Made in Brooklyn Tours. ****

This tour also serves as a fundraiser to support the Roebling Museum, a nonprofit organization.

https://www.brooklynhistory.org/exhibitions/waterfront/

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