Join us this April at Morris-Jumel Mansion for Family & Community Day and celebrate Passover by crafting your own afikomen cover! The afikomen tradition, where a piece of matzah is hidden for children to find, has been a cherished part of Passover for generations. Beautifully decorated afikomen covers have long been used to protect and honor this special matzah. Don’t miss our chance to create your own afikomen bag to protect the special treasures in your life! Materials are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Join us this April at Morris-Jumel Mansion for Family and Community Day and celebrate Passover by creating your own afikomen covering! The tradition of the afikomen, in which a piece of matzah is hidden for children to find, has been a treasured part of Passover for generations. Beautifully decorated afikomen coverings have long been used to protect and honor this special matzah. Don’t miss the opportunity to create your own covering to protect the special treasures in your life! Materials are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
It’s important to start every story at the beginning, so in MJM’s upcoming commemorative exhibition “What the House Saw: 260 years of stories from MJM’s Collection & Community,” we are starting with before the Mansion was built in 1765. We will be rolling out each era in the exhibition for the rest of 2025’s Virtual Parlor Chats under the banner Connect260. During May’s installment of Connect260, join Dr. Matthew Reilly, CCNY professor and archeologist to talk about the work he’s done with Mansion staff in the preparation of Indigenous artifacts for this exhibition from past excavations of the Morris-Jumel property. Find out more about the Indigenous History of the Mansion in May’s installment of Connect260!
Dr. Matthew C. Reilly is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Programs at the City College of New York and Co-Subfield Coordinator for Archaeology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He currently directs archaeological research in Barbados and with the Back-to-Africa Heritage and Archaeology project in Liberia. His work explores issues of race, colonialism, heritage, slavery, sovereignty, and freedom in the Caribbean and West Africa. In addition to multiple peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, he is the co-editor of Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados: Past Present, and Future Research Directions (2019) and author of Archaeology below the Cliff: Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society (2019).
Opera Night!
Friday December 20th at 7pm
Nine of stellar Venezuelan soprano Maria Brea’s voice students will sing a variety of opera pieces. This is the fourth time Maria has brought her students to the Shrine, and each time it has been a wonderful evening. By donation, with proceeds to benefit the Shrine.
Competition-winning pianist Maxim Anikushin plays music of Ravel, Tshcikovsky, Beethoven and others in this Christmas concert for all. Suggested donation of $15.
