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Exhibitions & Collections  
   
The Collection  
The Museum’s artifacts reflect more than two centuries of North Fork life and culture and its buildings represent significant examples of local architecture. The diverse collection includes 18th- and 19th-century furniture, notable maritime paintings, decorative arts, and local tools. The Museum’s substantial collection of historic documents and photographs is open to researchers by appointment.
   
Exhibitions:  

 

Oysterponds' Changing Face: The First Millennia

Exhibition open July 3 through October 2nd:

Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, 2-5 pm

Explore the history of a community defined by tradition and transition from the area’s first people to British settlement and the post-Revolutionary incomers. Why did they come and how did they shape their community? The first part of a two-year look at who we have been and who we are through artifacts spanning 15,000 years. Swanson Gallery of the Old Point Schoolhouse, Village Lane, Orient

   
Orange Webb House Maritime Tour

Tours July 3 through October 2nd: Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, 2-5 pm


Come back to the historic 18th century Orange Webb House to discover the area’s rich maritime history with a new self-guided tour. More than twenty paintings of maritime interest, scrimshaw, documents and other artifacts tell the compelling story of life at the water’s edge until the dawn of the 20th century.

Orange Webb House overlooking Poquatuck Park, Village Lane, Orient.
Exhibition open July 3 through October 2nd:
Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, 2-5 pm
   
Village House Undressed
July 3 – October 2
Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, 2 pm – 5 pm
Village House was always a locus of activity in the community from its early use as a tavern, store and school within Augustus Griffin’s home to its transformation into a fashionable boarding house by the Vail family by the late nineteenth century. This witness to so much of Oysterponds history is currently undergoing scholarly study, much-needed repairs and restoration. Unfurnished for the first time in decades, the building tells stories of its past from the ceiling beams and door hinges to the floorboards and the shards of china found beneath them. This “undressed” exhibition lays bare the building’s past and plans for the future.
This exhibition is FREE to the public and made possible by grants from the New York Council on the Humanities and the Suffolk County Office of Cultural Affairs.
Village House, Village Lane, Orient
   
Donations:  
OHS welcomes and encourages the donation of appropriate materials related to Orient and East Marion. If you are interested in donating an item, please contact the office at (631) 323-2480.

 

Oysterponds Historical Society

Village Lane, PO Box 70, Orient, NY 11957   631-323-2480

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