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Ellis Island Closed Until Further Notice
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Special Exhibits
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STATUE OF LIBERTY NATIONAL MONUMENT AND ELLIS ISLAND
CURRENT EXHIBITS Library Hall - Third Floor So I Come to America: Detroit Pre-World War I Immigrants Between 1890 and 1914, tens of millions of people left their homes to make new lives in the United States. Thousands of these immigrants settled in the city of Detroit, Michigan. Between 1980 and 1983, Robert Gordon, a professor and Library Director at Siena Heights University in Michigan, photographed and interviewed 50 Detroit-area pre-World War I immigrants. All but 3 of these entered the U.S. through Ellis Island. Many of them were from the Russian, Austro-Hungarian, German, and Ottoman Empires. This exhibit consists of 15 of Gordon's portrait photographs featuring immigrants from Central Europe along with excerpts from his oral histories.
Dormitory Galleries - Third Floor Merika: Emigration from Central Europe to America 1880-1914 At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, more than 3 million people emigrated from Austria-Hungary to the United States, and most of them passed through Ellis Island. The aim of this exhibition is to show the background of this great exodus, how the emigrants traveled, and their new lives in America - as well as focus on individual stories of a few chosen immigrants. Short films of interviews with emigrants who left Austria-Hungary in the 20th century will be included in the exhibit. The exhibition is organized by the City Museum of Rijeka, Republic of Croatia. UPCOMING EXHIBITS: Library Hall - Third Floor Dormitory Galleries - Third Floor The Stilled Passage: A Photographic Journey through Ellis Island's Un-Restored Buildings This exhibition of color photographs by photographer Philip Calabria, is intended to introduce the museum visitor to the beauty, mystery and evocative scenes that reside within the unrestored buildings of Ellis Island. Using both artificial and natural light, the photographs capture the varying surfaces inside the buildings that mark time, weather and the presence of the many lives that passed through them. The goal of the exhibit is to engage visitors in the metaphor, drama and emotional richness of these spaces and enable them to leave with a greater understanding and appreciation of Ellis Island beyond the public areas. The exhibit is organized by Philip Calabria, Chair, Visual Arts Program, Northfield Mount Hermon School; the Northfield Mount Hermon School. |
Did You Know?
The Guastavino Ceiling in the Great Hall: Rafael Guastavino Moreno (1842 –1908) was a Spanish architect and builder. He created a "Tile Arch System" patented in the United States in 1885 used for constructing robust, self-supporting arches and architectural vaults using interlocking terracotta tiles and layers of mortar, it is found in some of the most prominent Beaux-Arts landmarks across the United States