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Schifferstadt Architectural Museum Events

Shifferstadt Architectural Museum traditionally hosts four main events and a number of special events each year:

Bell and History Days
Beyond the Garden Gates
Special Speaker Series
Oktoberfest

Winterfest:Arts and Crafts Market,

FCLF Annual Meeting and Volunteer Appreciation Reception
Museums by Candlelight
3nd Annual Historic Homes trades Fair - Saturday, May 18, 2013   EVENT CANCELED
What Ails You: Medical History Days

Bell and History Day, April 6, 2013 Hours 10-4
Sponsored by the Tourism Council of Frederick County, this event opens the museum season with participation of all historic sites and museums. Special children’s activities, living history demonstrations and free tours of the museum highlight this seasonal Grand Opening.

Visitors can interact with living history demonstrators and look at displays and artifacts from 18th Century Maryland. Weather and schedules permitting, a local bell ringing choir may perform.

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Beyond the Garden Gates
Featuring both private and public gardens in Frederick's historic district and suburban areas, the tour allows visitors to glimpse some of the city's finest gardens. Local artists can be found illustrating their perspectives of the gardens on canvas at some of the locations. Schifferstadt serves as the rest area and refreshment stop with free tours of the Heritage Garden.

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Special Speaker Series 2013

 In collaboration with Frederick County Tourism and the Frederick War of 1812 Commemoration, there will be three days of presentations around the War of 1812 and Francis Scott Key:

Tuesday, September 10, 2013,  6 PM Community Room, C Burr Artz

Christopher T. George, Independent Historian and author, Terror on the Chesapeake: The War of 1812 on the Bay, Editor, Journal of the War of 1812
Presentation:
"The War of 1812 in the Chesapeake Bay."  This a detailed overview of what happened in the Bay during the War of 1812 with high-lights about the naval aspects during the battle.  

- Collaboration with the Frederick County Historical Society

Wednesday, September 11, 2013  6 PM Community Room, C Burr Artz

Troy J. Nowak, Assistant State Underwater Archaeologist,
Maryland Historical Trust
Presentation:
 "Underwater Archeology of the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake"

- Collaboration with the Monocacy Archeological Society

Thursday September 12, 2013,   7 PM  (location to be announced)

Vincent Vaise, Chief of Interpretation at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine and Hampton National Historic Site. 
Author of numerous published articles in the Journal of the War of 1812.
Presentation:
 “The Battle of Baltimore and the Birth of the Anthem”
Vaise will detail the causes of the War of 1812, why Baltimore was the subject of the British attack, and how soldiers, sailors, free African-Americans and civilians banded together to save their city. Audiences will learn how Francis Scott Key's words still resonate with us today.

Sponsored by Frederick County Landmarks Foundation and the Maryland Humanities Council 

- Collaboration with the Catoctin Center

Here is what you might have missed so far from the 2013 Speakers Series:

1/19/2012
Araby: Thomas House, Monocacy Battlefield, by Joy Beasley, Cultural Resources Manager, National Park Service, spoke at the C.Burr Artz Library on January 19th, 2013. Beasley discussed the painstaking efforts employed to preserve Thomas House to make it the successful, adaptive-reuse project it is today. This historic brick mansion ca. 1780 is an important landmark in the Frederick region. The famous property and house, and outbuildings, often was captured and recaptured by both Confederate and Union armies during the Battle of Monocacy, on July 9, 1864. Highlights of the talk will included historic preservation and sustainability as related to Araby: Thomas House, Monocacy Battlefield.

1/12/2013
Tyler Gearhart, Executive Director, Preservation Marlyland, discussed the difficult task of raising awareness and advocacy for preservation of important landmarks in Maryland and the Frederick region.

Past Lectures from the 2012 Speakers Series:

April 11, 2012
Striking Back: At the Edge of Empire in the Eighteenth Century
Warren R. Hofstra, Stewart Bell Professor of History, Shenandoah University discussed how backcountry counties in Maryland and Virginia were named “Frederick” after English Princes and Lord Proprietors in the eighteenth century and how that was indicative of the role that imperial interests played in the settlement and political organization of the first frontier in American history.

March 20, 2012
Award-winning journalist, and author of Here Lies Jim Crow: Civil Rights in Maryland, spoke about Frederick’s often over-looked role in the civil rights movement from Chief Justice Roger Brook Taney’s Dred Scott ruling to local efforts to break down Jim Crow prohibitions.

Watch the FCLF Home Page for other current listings.

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Oktoberfest at Schifferstadt, October 19-20, 2013
This traditional eating, drinking and dancing festival takes place the third full weekend of October each year, rain or shine. It features a beer tent, German food (wurst from the purveyor to the German Embassy), oompah band, German cultural activities, juried arts and crafts, colonial living history demonstrators and children’s fun. Admission is free to the Oktoberfest grounds. Tours of the Schifferstadt Architectural Museum are available and include special hearth cooking demonstrations. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Oktoberfest 2012 at Schifferstadt was a great success! The weather cleared just in time and the crowds were possibly record size. A big THANK YOU goes to all the Landmarks volunteers, the Fredericktowne Rotary volunteers, demonstrators, scouts, and crafters and artists who make this popular annual fundraiser possible.

The 2013 Oktoberfest at Schifferstadt will be October 19-20. Mark your calendars!

If you are an artist/crafter and are interested in participating in upcoming events, email fredcolandmarks@aol.com

or call 301-668-6088 for more information.

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Winterfest: Arts And Crafts Market at Schifferstadt.

Dates to be announced

Old Schifferstadt will come alive with the sights and sounds of a new winter event. A limited number of artisans and crafters will display their finest traditional hand-made work indoors at Schifferstadt. The museum gift shop will also be open. Hours on Saturday are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday hours, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.. 2013 date will be announced soon.

Our Annual Meeting took place on January 12, 2013.

Museums by Candlelight, Saturday, December 14, 2013

This celebration of the winter holiday season rounds out the museum season on the second Saturday of December from 12:00-7:00. Living history demonstrations, music, children’s crafts, and a traditional Pennsylvania Dutch belsnickler take you back in time to holiday life for a colonial German household. Volunteer docents will give tours.

The gift shop has hand-made, local, beeswax candles and lotion bars, and Scherenschnitte ornaments (a German tradition of decorative cut paper). Live music by young musicians periodically throughout the day and at 5pm.

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2013 EVENT CANCELLED

Historic Homes Trades Fair, The Original Green!

Assisting homeowners with improvements and renovations to older homes. Featuring demonstrations of carpentry, decorative metal work, masonry, flooring, roofing, landscape, insulation, heavy timber and more, plus experts from around the area who specialize in restoring and repairing historic structures the correct way. Visitors could ask questions and watch demonstrations of real craftsmen at work. This event takes place on the lawns surrounding Schifferstadt Architectural Museum. In addition, there will be a flea market for salvaged architectural materials. Also enjoy foods, crafts and local plants.

Hours are 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. !

For more information contact Frederick County Landmarks

Foundation at 301-668-6088 or email fredcolandmarks@aol.com

If you would participate in this event as a vendor or demonstrator, or in the architectural flea market, contact George C. Harne, phone 301-293-4348,

email   george@georgeharnearchitect.com

Photos from past events

courtesy of Joe Sweeney

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What Ails You: Medical History Days(Past event)
 

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