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2010 Press Releases

July 26 , 2010
Flagler Museum Receives Grant to Translate Audio Tours
The Flagler Museum announces a $95,198 grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services to translate the Museum's
ninety-minute audio tour into Spanish, French and German.

April 9 , 2010
Flagler Museum Welcomes Local Students for Florida Heritage Month
In conjunction with Florida Heritage Month the Flagler Museum welcomes more than 100 fourth and fifth grade students for an interactive presentation with novelists Edwina Raffa and Annelle Rigsby on April 19, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.

March 22, 2010
Flagler Museum Hosts IMPACT Program with U. B. Kinsey/Palmview Elementary School
The Flagler Museum will welcome 25 students from U.B. Kinsey/Palmview Elementary School for a five-week Intergenerational Mentor
Program for Art, Culture, and Technology (IMPACT) beginning April 13, 2010.

March 18, 2010

Flagler Museum Celebrates Annual Founder's Day with Free Admission
On June 5th each year the Flagler Museum celebrates its anniversary by opening to the public free of charge in honor of the Museum’s
founder, and Henry Flagler’s granddaughter, Jean Flagler Matthews.

March 5, 2010

Flagler Museum Summer Camps Explore Crime Investigation, Inventions, and Magic
The Flagler Museum will offer three Summer Camps focusing on Crime Investigation During the Gilded Age, Inventions that Changed the World, and Magicians and Magic in the Gilded Age.

February 10 , 2010

Flagler Museum Presents a Mother’s Day Tea
The Flagler Museum’s Café des Beaux-Arts will open specially for Mother’s Day on May 8, 2010 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m and on May 9, 2010 from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m..

February 2, 2010

Special Event Cover Postcard Commemorates Flagler Museum's 50th Anniversary
On February 6th, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., the Flagler Museum will celebrate its 50th anniversary as a public museum with a Special Event Cover postcard.

January 17, 2010

Bluegrass Fills the Air at the Flagler Museum
Two renowned Bluegrass groups, Cody Schuler and Pine Mountain Railroad, and The Larry Stephenson Band will perform at the Flagler Museum's sixth annual Bluegrass in The Pavilion Concert on April 10, 2010.

January 13, 2010

Celebrate Easter with the Flagler Museum’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt
The Flagler Museum will host an Easter Egg Hunt and Egg Roll on April 3, 2010

2009 Press Releases

December 29, 2009
The Flagler Museum presents the Winter Exhibition New World Eden: Artist-Explorerers in the American Tropics
On exhibit at the Flagler Museum, New World Eden: Artist-Explorers in the American Tropics from January 26 through April 18, 2010

December 22, 2009
Flagler Museum Hosts Gilded Age Museum Directors Forum
The Flagler Museum will host a Forum with seven Directors of Gilded Age house museums on January 8th at 6:30 p.m., 2010

November 18, 2009
Celebrate Valentines Day at the Flagler Museum
The Flagler Museum's Café des Beaux-Arts will offer romantic Tea-for-Two Valentine's packages from February 12 - 14, 2010

October 13, 2009
Celebrate the Holiday Season at Whitehall
Beginning December 1st Whitehall's first floor is decorated in traditional Gilded Age magnificence

October 6, 2009

Flagler Museum Announces 2009/2010 Season Programs

The Flagler Museum continues to provide visitors with interesting and unique programming during the 2009/2010 Season. Please include
the following events and dates in your calendars.

August 27, 2009
The Flagler Museum Invites Grandparents and Grandchildren to a Day of Special Activities
Share your own family history by celebrating Grandparents Day at the Flagler Museum. The Museum will celebrate Grandparents Day on September 13, 2009.

July 29, 2009

THE FLAGLER MUSEUM PRESENTS A Spirit of Simplicity: American Arts and Crafts from the Two Red Roses Foundation

The Flagler Museum’s forthcoming exhibition, A Spirit of Simplicity: American Arts and Crafts from the Two Red Roses Foundation, will feature nearly 150 objects illustrating the range of American Arts and Crafts style.

April 9, 2009

Campers Explore Crime Scenes, Inventions, and Magic

The Flagler Museum will offer three Summer Camps focusing on Crime Investigation During the Gilded Age, Inventions that Changed the World, and Magicians and Magic in the Gilded Age.

April 21, 2009

Flagler Museum Celebrates 50th Anniversary with Free Admission

On June 5th each year the Flagler Museum celebrates its anniversary by opening to the public free of charge in honor of the Museum’s founder, and Henry Flagler’s granddaughter, Jean Flagler Matthews.

April 3, 2009

FLAGLER MUSEUM OPENS NEW ELEVATOR- Disabled Visitors Can Tour Whitehall’s 2nd Floor For The First Time

The Flagler Museum will open a state-of-the-art elevator on April 7th. The new “green” elevator will make the second floor of Whitehall wheelchair accessible for the first time since the Museum opened in 1960.

February 28, 2009

Signed Peter Cooper Note Purchased for Flagler Museum by Harris Private Bank

The Flagler Museum has acquired an important hand-written and signed note by industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper. This addition to the Flagler Museum’s collection was underwritten by Harris Private Bank.

February 24, 2009

Tempesta di Mare Closes Series at the Flagler Museum
The 10th annual Flagler Museum Music Series concludes with Tempesta di Mare in concert on March 3rd.

February 17, 2009

Author Discusses Golf’s Golden Age and Legendary Players
The Flagler Museum's annual Whitehall Lecture Series focusing on Sports Legends of the Gilded Age concludes with author David Normoyle discussing Golf's Golden Age: The Legendary Players of the 10s and 20s on March 1st at 3:00 p.m.

February 11, 2009

Flagler Museum Hosts Exhibit Gallery Talk With Curator

The Flagler Museum will host a free Gallery Talk with Dr. Carol Troyen, the curator of A Mother’s Pearls: Children in American Paintings, on February 24th.

February 10, 2009
Internationally Celebrated Violinist Yi-Jia Susanne Hou Performs at the Flagler Museum

The 10th annual Flagler Museum Music Series continues with violinist Yi-Jia Susanne Hou in concert on February 19th.

February 9, 2009
Author Discusses America’s Greatest Underdog Olympic Team
The Flagler Museum's Whitehall Lecture Series focusing on Sports Legends of the Gilded Age continues with author Susan Saint Sing discussing The Wonder Crew: The Untold Story of a Coach, Navy Rowing, and Olympic Immortality on February 22nd.

February 3, 2009

Flagler Museum Hosts Mother’s Day Tea

The Flagler Museum’s Pavilion Café will open specially for Mother’s Day on May 10, 2009, from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

February 2, 2009

Baseball’s Greatest Year Subject of Flagler Museum Lecture

The Flagler Museum's Whitehall Lecture Series focusing on Sports Legends of the Gilded Age continues with author Cait Murphy discussing Crazy ‘08: The Greatest Year in Baseball History on February 15th at 3:00 p.m.

January 30, 2009

Flagler Museum Invites Children To Exhibition Activity And Tea

The Flagler Museum will host a special children’s activity in conjunction with the current exhibition of A Mother’s Pearls: Children in American Paintings on February 7th.

January 26, 2009

Legendary Boxer John Sullivan Subject of Flagler Museum Lecture

The Flagler Museum's Whitehall Lecture Series focusing on Sports Legends of the Gilded Age continues with author Adam Pollack discussing John L. Sullivan: The World’s First Gloved Heavyweight Champion on February 8th.

January 22, 2009

Cyclist Major Taylor Subject of Flagler Museum Special Lecture

The Flagler Museum begins the 24th annual Whitehall Lecture Series with author Todd Balf discussing Major Taylor: The World’s Fastest Human Being on February 1st at 3:00 p.m.

January 22, 2009

Bluegrass Fills the Air at the Flagler Museum

Bluegrass artists Dailey & Vincent and Grasstowne headline the Flagler Museum’s annul Bluegrass in The Pavilion Concert on April 18, 2009 at 3:30 p.m. Tickets are $30 and all proceeds benefit the Southern Arts Federation’s emergency relief fund for Gulf Coast cultural intuitions.

January 20, 2009

The Prima Trio Performs at the Flagler Museum

The 10th Annual Flagler Museum Music Series continues with the vivacious Prima Trio in concert on February 3rd.

January 12, 2009

Celebrate Easter with the Flagler Museum’s Egg Hunt and Egg Roll

The Flagler Museum's Whitehall Society will host an Easter Egg Hunt and Egg Roll on April 11, 2009.

January 8, 2009

The Santa Fe Guitar Quartet Performs at the Flagler Museum

The Flagler Museum Music Series continues with the Santa Fe Guitar Quartet in concert on January 20th at 7:30 p.m.

January 7, 2009

Celebrate Valentines Day at the Flagler Museum

The Flagler Museum's Pavilion Café will offer romantic Tea-for-Two Valentine's Day packages from February 12 to14. Each special Tea-for-Two includes a $15 gift card to the Museum Store, box of premium Whitehall chocolates, Valentine's Day rose, and keepsake photo.

January 6, 2009

Flagler Museum Announces the Whitehall Lecture Series

The theme of the 24th annual Whitehall Lecture Series is Sports Legends of the Gilded Age. The Series presents expert scholars, authors, and speakers from prominent museums, universities, and cultural institutions from around the world

2008 Press Releases

December 22, 2008

Flagler Museum Presents a Special Lecture BARNUM: America’s Greatest Showman

The Flagler Museum welcomes author Philip B. Kunhardt III for a special lecture, BARNUM: America’s Greatest Showman, on January 4, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.

November 25, 2008

Flagler Museum Expands its Whitehall Collection™ line of products

The Flagler Museum has added to its Whitehall Collection™ line of products just in time for the holiday gift giving season. Bring home the grandeur and elegance of the Gilded Age with specially designed products inspired by Whitehall’s classic designs.

September 24, 2008

Flagler Museum Announces 2008 - 2009 Season Programs

The Flagler Museum continues to provide visitors with interesting and unique programming during the 2008 / 2009 Season.

March 13, 2008
Flagler Museum Sponsors Children's Book Debut
The Flagler Museum will sponsor a special book debut with the authors of the children's historical novel, Kidnapped in Key West at Pleasant City Elementary School on Wednesday, March 26th, at 11:00 a.m.

March 6, 2008

Bluegrass fills the air at the Flagler Museum

The Flagler Museum will host a Bluegrass Concert with performances by Steve Kaufman and the Larry Stephenson Band on Saturday, April 12th beginning at 3:30 p.m. Tickets are $30 and all proceeds will benefit the Southern Arts Federation's emergency relief fund for Gulf Coast cultural institutions damaged by hurricanes.

February 21, 2008

Flagler Museum Receives $1 million to Open Research Library

The Flagler Museum received a $1 Million dollar charitable contribution from the Estate of Henry F. Harris. The Museum will use the funds to build the Henry F. Harris Research Library.

February 14, 2008

Flagler Museum Recognizes Florida Heroes

During the Carnegie Heroes Lecture on Sunday, March 9, 2008, the Flagler Museum will recognize two heroes who voluntarily risked mortal peril while attempting to save the life of another person. Paul D. Meeks and Charles T. Carbonell, Sr. will receive the prestigious Carnegie Hero Medal from Carnegie Hero Fund President Mark Laskow during a special lecture and ceremony beginning at 3:00 p.m. in the Museum's Grand Ballroom.

February 5, 2008

Flagler Museum Hosts Appraisal Weekend with Tim Luke

The Flagler Museum will host Appraisal Weekend with expert appraiser Tim Luke of HGTV's "Cash in the Attic" and Public Television's "Antiques Roadshow" on April 5 and 6, 2008.

January 10, 2008

Flagler Museum To Host Special Lecture on Gilded Age Clocks and Conservation

The Flagler Museum will host “A timely marriage of technology and art: Clocks of the Gilded Age” with master conservator Bob Derochers on February 2, 2008

2007 Press Releases

December 18, 2007

The Flagler Museum presents Untamed: The Art of Antoine Louis-Barye

The Flagler Museum will exhibit Untamed: The Art of Antoine-Louis
Barye from January 15, 2008 through April 13, 2008. The Winter exhibition features 91 works...

July 12, 2007

Flagler Museum displays Eloquent Vistas: The Art of Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography from the George Eastman House Collection

The Museum's fall exhibition of seventy-eight extraordinary nineteenth-century photographic landscapes reveals the imaginative spirit of American photography from the 1850s to around 1900 and from the East to the vast “new” West.

July 5, 2007

Flagler Museum Announces 2007 - 2008 Season Programs

The Flagler Museum continues to provide visitors with interesting and unusual programming in 2007/2008 Season.  Please include the following events and dates in your calendars.

2006 Press Releases

December 12, 2006

Alexander W. Dreyfoos joins Flagler Museum Board of Trustees

Palm Beach, FL) The Trustees of the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum are pleased to announce that Alexander W. Dreyfoos has joined its Board of Trustees.

President of the Flagler Museum and great grandson of Henry Flagler, George G. Matthews, is thrilled Dreyfoos has joined the Board commenting, “Alex’s interest in and support of Art and Culture in this community is legendary and my fellow Trustees and I could not be more pleased that he has agreed to serve on the Board of the Museum.” The Flagler Museum’s Executive Director, John Blades, remarked, “I am very excited that Mr. Dreyfoos has joined the Board. His long-standing commitment to art and culture, and his extensive board experience will be a real asset to the Museum.”

December 12, 2006

Amazing Historical Florida Artifact Reproduced for the Flagler Museum by Tiffany & Co.

(PALM BEACH, FL) The Flagler Museum recently unveiled a replica of the Gold Telegram and Box created by Tiffany & Co. to commemorate the completion of the Over-Sea Railroad in 1912. The Gold Telegram, ornate vermeil box, and wooden storage case are the product of a six-year collaboration between the Museum and Tiffany & Co. Designers worked to recreate these unique and historically significant artifacts by utilizing period descriptions and the sole surviving photograph of the original box and telegram from the Flagler Museum Archives.

June 26, 2006

Statue of Henry Flagler to be Dedicated in Miami

(PALM BEACH, FL) B A statue of Henry Morrison Flagler will be dedicated on the Miami Dade County Courthouse steps, 73 West Flagler Street, in downtown Miami at 11:00 a.m. on July 28th, 2006 – the 110th anniversary of the incorporation of the City of Miami.

March 21, 2006
Flagler Museum Welcomes New Chief Curator
(Palm Beach, FL) Tracy Kamerer joins the Museum staff as Chief Curator. She will head the Curatorial Department a the Flagler Museum beginning May 1, 2006.

February 27, 2006
Martin Johnson Heade Painting Returns to Whitehall
(PALM BEACH, FL) The Great Florida Marsh by Martin Johnson Heade is now on exhibit at the Flagler Museum. Purchased in 1886, the painting was one of the first large paintings by Heade purchased by Henry Flagler. After more than eight decades the painting returns to Whitehall.

February 10, 2006
Statue of Henry Flagler to be Dedicated
(Key West, FL) B A statue of Henry Morrison Flagler was dedicated at the Ferry Terminal in Key West, Florida on
Friday, February 24, 2006 at 10 a.m.

January 3, 2006
Tiffany at the World's Columbian Exposition
(PALM BEACH, FL) The Flagler Museum presents a special exhibition, Tiffany at the World 's Columbian Exposition from
January 17 - April 16, 2006. This is the first time the amazing silver objects made for the Columbian Exposition have been exhibited together since 1893. This exhibit will only appear at the Flagler Museum.

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