EASTON, Pa. -
Sept. 26, 2013 -
PRLog -- Easton, PA, September 23, 2013– The National Canal Museum (NCM) will open its doors free of charge and offer $5 Canal Boat Rides on Saturday September 28
th, 2013 as part of
Smithsonian magazine’s ninth annual Museum Day Live! A nationwide event, Museum Day Live! Offers free admission to all visitors presenting a Museum Day Live! ticket at a participating museum or cultural institution.
According to Tom Stoneback, Director of the NCM, “The Museum’s hands-on exhibits and education programs show how the coal-carrying canals and its peoples led the region’s nationally significant role in the building of America. Hugh Moore Historical Park and The National Canal Museum is a Smithsonian-
affiliated organization in the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor. It's where geography and geology met human genius and energy-a confluence which transformed the United States from a rural, agricultural society into an industrial power. The industrial revolution began, and America was, literally, built here.
The Museum Day Live! ticket is available at
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/. Visitors who present the Museum Day Live! ticket will gain free entrance for two at participating venues including The National Canal Museum for one day only. One ticket is permitted per household, per email address. For more information about Museum Day Live! 2013 and a list of participating museums and cultural institutions, please visit http://www.smithsonianmag.com/
museumday/.
For 50 years the Smithsonian-
affiliated and AAM-accredited Museum has collected and archived tens of thousands of artifacts, documents, and photographs which tell this nationally important story of America's industrial revolution as it was fueled by coal and delivered by canal. Our location in Hugh Moore Park, along the only remaining and operating section of an anthracite coal canal (with mule-drawn boat) that tells the canal story and houses the artifacts, is the perfect place to interpret the region's role in the revolution of American industry. The uniquely located Park at the confluence of the Lehigh and Delaware Rivers, is not only the central location in the corridor, the only place in America where three canals intersected, but a microcosm of the entire corridor's natural resources and industrial development.
The National Canal Museum and Canal Boat are open on weekends through October 5th from Noon until 5 pm. Canal boat rides depart at 1, 2, 3, and 4 pm. The Museum is located at Hugh Moore Park, 2750 Hugh Moore Park Road. Easton, PA. For more information:
610-923-3548 or www.canals.org.
