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The University of Southern Indiana’s Historic New Harmony is participating in Smithsonian Magazine’s Museum Day on Saturday, September 22 at the Atheneum Visitors Center. Museum Day is an annual celebration of museums and cultural institutions across the country to provide free entry to anyone presenting a Museum Day ticket.
For Museum Day, Historic New Harmony is taking a closer look at Women in New Harmony by offering two special one-hour tours at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. The tour will visit the Frances Golden exhibit in Thrall's Opera House, the Leota Loop exhibit in the Scholle House and end at the Fauntleroy Home with a discussion about the Minerva Society.
The Minerva Society, a literary club for the younger women of the town, was founded by Constance Fauntleroy in 1859. It is considered one of the earliest women's clubs in America with a written constitution and by-laws; the Society was disbanded in 1863.
Tickets must be presented for the tour and are available now for the public to download at smithsonianmag.com/museumday.
For more information contact Claire Eagle, New Harmony experience coordinator at ceagle@usi.edu or 812-682-4488
