The Waterfront Museum Receives A Website Development Grant

from The Robert D. L. Gardiner Foundation

Brooklyn, NY -- The Waterfront Museum is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a Website Development Grant from The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation. Funds will be used to hire CDT Workshop, a popular Brooklyn website consultant who will enlist the user-friendly, WordPress WBM (Web-based Management) platform. The Museum’s website produces 60,000 hits annually and features information on our programs, the artists, exhibitions, educational opportunities, directions to the Museum as well as links to other related sites. The updated site will become more mobile phone friendly, ADA compliant and will enable the Museum to provide a searchable database to explore our artifacts and collection which will become accessible to scholars, journalists, artists, students and community members.

“The Waterfront Museum is an excellent example of innovative historic adaptive reuse. This floating museum, located in an incomparable setting, has become a community center offering history, culture and interactive experiences to all of New York.” said Kathryn M. Curran, Executive Director of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation.

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/.