Exhibitions

From the Collection: Prints by Lucia Minervini

On view Winter 2024

Ten years ago, Lucia Minervini created a suite of solar plate etchings, drawing on Voelcker-Orth family photos in the Museum’s archive. The art was exhibited as part of her installation, Die Weisse Frau. The prints explore the hopes and aspirations, particularly of the women, who resided in the house before it became a museum. Ms. Minervini’s work invites visitors to pause to sense a place and time, and to reflect upon a family’s dreams and experiences.

Online exhibition:

Finding the Family: A Look into the Lives and Times of the Voelker-Orth Family

Finding the Family explores the lives of the Voelker Orth family through the local and historical happenings they experienced. The online exhibition highlights moments in the lives of Conrad, Theresa, and Elisabetha as we follow three generations of the family through the early 20th century.

The exhibition is organized by Carine Norvez, a tour guide at the Museum. She developed the exhibition while she was a CUNY Culture Corps intern studying items in our archive last year. Ms. Norvez has located period news articles and materials from a variety of sources to create a context for the papers and images left to the Museum. An audio text version accompanies the print.

Click here to see Finding the Family