The Waterfront Museum Receives A Collections Consultants Grant from The Robert D. L. Gardiner Foundation

Brooklyn, NY -- The Waterfront Museum is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $13,792 Collections

Consultant Grant from The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation. Funds will be used to hire two consultants .

Frank & Glory, a renowned museum services firm will help develop the Museum’s By-Laws & Collection

Management Policy. Dr. Johnathan Thayer is a maritime studies/urban history researcher and a public history/

archival studies educator. Johnathan will create a digital platform to enable artifacts and images to be accessible

online. QR codes will also be developed to enhance the visitor experience for non-English speakers and those with

hearing disabilities.

"The Waterfront Museum offers a unique cultural and educational experience. The maritime history it represents,

along with its role as a community center brings the waterfront story to life. RDLGF is very pleased with our

collaborative efforts." said Kathryn M. Curran, Executive Director of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation.

"This grant will allow the Waterfront Museum to provide more equitable and impactful access to its collections,

which embody the material history of the City's relationship to its waterways.” said Dr. Johnathan Thayer, Assistant

Professor at Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies (CUNY).

ABOUT THE WATERFRONT MUSEUM

The Waterfront Museum is housed aboard the 1914 Lehigh Valley No. 79, an all-wooden railroad barge docked in

Red Hook Brooklyn. The barge formerly carried up to 300 tons of perishable cargo between ships in the New York

Harbor and train terminals prior to today’s system of containerization which utilizes trucks, highways, bridges and

tunnels. Rescued from extinction in 1985 by entertainer/juggler David Sharps, the one-of-a-kind barge operates

today as a US Coast Guard-certified attraction vessel. The Barge is a floating museum, classroom and showboat

providing free year-round, bi-weekly open boat visits, school field trips and showboat performances featuring a

music, theatre, dance and vaudeville.. For more information visit www.waterfrontmuseum.org.

ABOUT THE ROBERT D. L. GARDINER FOUNDATION

The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation's mission is to promote the advancement of our regional history.

The Foundation is inspired by Robert David Lion Gardiner’s personal passion for New York history. For more

information, please visit https://www.rdlgfoundation.org/.