Current Exhibitions
Mega Model Train Exhibition at the Morris Museum
Mega Model Train Exhibition
A highly popular exhibition featuring an intricate model train that meanders across a 288-square-foot landscape replicating a bustling city and pastoral scene, equipped with a waterfall, planetarium, and even a sasquatch.
It includes 500 feet of O-gauge track surrounded by an eclectic array of buildings, figurines, cars, trees, and all sorts of other interesting minutia. Along the sides of the display are 48 buttons, each activating a unique light or a moving device, allowing guests to interact with the exhibit. Almost like a real-life Where’s Waldo book, half the fun of Mega Model Trains is admiring the incredibly detailed scenes dispersed throughout.
The trains will be of interest for all ages, from fans of the Thomas the Tank engine to a scale version of the Amtrak Acela passenger train.
Open:
- Daily through the end of February 2019 (except on most Mondays when the Museum is closed)
- Monday, January 21, 2019 (Martin Luther King Jr., Day)
- Monday, February 18, 2019 (Presidents’ Day)
Detail from Installation of “Fever Songs,” at ODETTA Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Photo by Joshua Touster, 2018.
Sound Garden: Installations by John Morton and Jacqueline Shatz
Friday, November 16, 2018 – Sunday, February 24, 2019
Can sound be an artistic medium? Sound artists use technology, such as recording equipment and audio devices, to manipulate, restructure, and re-present auditory sensations in creative ways.
This exhibition features two immersive, interactive installations:
Fever Songs (2018) brings together the vocal traditions of different religions in an acoustic experience that explores spiritual commonality. Ten audio speakers respond to people’s movements around the room, interweaving and altering the various chants.
In The Voyage Out (2009) visitors activate a kinetic sculpture, triggering layers of spoken text and natural sounds related to Charles Darwin’s voyage aboard the ship HMS Beagle.
Hear an excerpt of Fever Songs on WNYC’s New Sounds with John Schaefer.
Andy Taylor, Uncle Sam, B-flat Trumpet, 1996. Photo Courtesy of the National Music Museum.
Trumpets, Weird and Wonderful:
Treasures from the National Music Museum
Sunday, October 7, 2018 – Sunday, March 17, 2019
Forget everything you think you know about the trumpet, the best-known member of the brasswind family. Trumpet-like musical instruments appear across time and cultures in surprising shapes, sizes, and features, from the conch-shell trumpet to the didgeridoo, from the valveless natural trumpet to the keyed bugle, from the Swiss alphorn to the s-shaped serpent.
By special arrangement with the National Music Museum, America’s preeminent collection of historic musical instruments, this exhibit of more than forty musical instruments, including audio and video demonstrations, will delight young and old, student and connoisseur.
See what some recent visitors from NYC posted about their trip to view this exhibition.
Friday, November 9, 2018 – Thursday, January 3, 2019
For the sixth year, the Morris Museum hosts an exhibition of the design and fine art pieces created by students at County College of Morris (CCM). The exhibition, consists of works produced by students taking Portfolio classes through CCM’s Department of Art and Design.
Gallery Tours
The Morris Museum offers tours of select exhibitions for groups of 10 or more.
Gallery Tours include educator-led programs for field trip students and adult groups, as well as self-guided browse tours.
Gallery Tour – Morris Museum.
