"Going Places" - New Exhibition at the Harbor History Museum

Winter Hours begin February 1, 2012:

Weds-Sat: 10-4pm

Sunday: 12-4pm

Closed: Mon & Tues

New exhibit at the Harbor History Museum; "Going Places"

Visitors will be transported to a time where carriages--not cars--ruled the road. These forerunners of automobiles and trucks were absolutely essential to American life in the 1800s. Carriages came in an amazing assortment of sizes, shapes, and finishes, from the buckboard phaeton to the sidebar buggy.

Going Places explores the culture, evolution, and eventual demise of horse-drawn transportation, from the early nineteenth century, through the industrial revolution, and into the 1900s and the dawn of the automobile age.

The exhibition also covers a broad range of questions: How were carriages made and repaired? Where were they sold, and who could afford them? The answers are surprising, and frequent parallels to today’s car culture make Going Places a fascinating journey.