For Immediate Release
December 22, 2011
Contact: Patricia Millen @Roebling Museum
609-499-7200
E-mail: patricia.millen@ roeblingmuseum.org
Roebling Museum Announces 75th Anniversary Plans for Golden Gate Bridge in 2012!
Roebling Museum awarded Grant and Program Partnership with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
Florence Township, NJ
The Roebling Museum announces plans to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge beginning in May of 2012 and throughout the year with special programs on what has often been called the most beautiful suspension bridge in the world. The Museum will open a new exhibit, “Spinning Gold”; host a public lecture, and a Golden Gate Bridge Birthday party for young visitors to include engineering programs with an emphasis on the construction of suspension bridges.
The wire rope for the Golden Gate Bridge was made at the Roebling factories in New Jersey and Roebling bridge men traveled from Trenton and Roebling to San Francisco to install the great cables and suspender ropes for one of the most stunning suspension ever built. Roebling bridge men, working with Roebling engineers, spun the cables in place using an aerial traveler wheel invented by the Roebling Company. In one eight-hour shift, the bridge men could install over 1,000 miles of cables! As a result, the cables for the Golden Gate Bridge were finished eight months ahead of schedule and contained 55,144 wires made by the Roebling Company. At the time, they were the largest cables ever spun!
The Museum was awarded a grant the New Jersey Council for the Humanities to help fund the new exhibit on the Golden Gate Bridge with never-before-seen photographs from the Roebling Archives of the bridge under construction. The exhibit will open on May 26, 2012, the 75th birthday of the bridge and to correspond to the National celebrations held all over the country and spearheaded by the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. The Roebling Museum is an east coast partner in the country-wide celebrations. More information about the national events can be found at the Conservancy’s web site, www.goldengatebridge75.org.
The Roebling Museum is open April to December and winter months by appointment.
The Roebling Museum is dedicated to telling the story of John A. Roebling’s Sons Company located in Roebling and Trenton. The new exhibition is made possible with a grant from the NJ Council for the Humanities, a state partner with the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations in the exhibit do not necessarily represent the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. The Roebling Museum is located on 100 Second Avenue in Roebling. Parking is available at the back of the Museum just off Hornberger Avenue. Visitors may take the Light Rail; the museum is a short walk from the Roebling stop. For more information call the museum offices at 609-499-7200—and visit the WEB site @ www.roeblingmuseum.org.
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