Current Exhibits

THE PARLOR DRESSES UP IN WEDDING FINERY

Posted on May 1, 2022 in Current Exhibits, Decorative Arts, Exhibits

Wedding Season has arrived in the Parlor!

On view through August 2022

The Birth of the Bob

Posted on Mar 3, 2022 in Current Exhibits, Exhibits

Inspired by National Women’s History Month, our latest history display celebrates a style that took the world by storm over 100 years ago.

The Mystery of the 1939 World’s Fair Paintings

Posted on Oct 12, 2021 in Current Exhibits, Exhibits

Extraordinary mural-size paintings on view at the Trenton City Museum

Gallery Five, Upper Floor

Trenton’s Treasures

Posted on Sep 13, 2021 in Current Exhibits, Exhibits

Showing of Robert Sakson’s watercolors extended!

TRENTON’S TREASURES: A WATERCOLOR RETROSPECTIVE

In our upper floor galleries

TRENTON MADE: MAJOLICA

Posted on Mar 31, 2021 in Current Exhibits, Exhibits, Featured

A tribute to Potteries of Trenton Society (POTS) Victorian Majolica properly refers to two types of majolica made in the second half of the 19th century in Europe and America. First, and best known, there is the renowned mass-produced majolica decorated with colored lead glazes, made in Britain, Europe and the US; typically hard-wearing, surfaces molded in relief, vibrant translucent glazes, in occasionally classical but mostly naturalistic styles, often with an element of High Victorian whimsy. In Trenton, two producers of majolica were Arsenal and Eureka potteries. Second,...