Merchant’s House Museum Announces Valentine's Exhibition and Concert

Exhibition: 19th-Century Valentines: Confections of Affection
Dates: Thursday, January 27, through Monday, February 28
Time: 12 to 5 p.m.
Location: Merchant's House Museum, 29 East Fourth Street (btwn Lafayette & Bowery)
Description: Ornate and extravagant lace paper valentines reached their zenith during the second half of the 19th century. See examples of handmade Valentine cards from the Museum's collection, as well as early manufactured cards. Included with regular admission: $10, $5 Student & Seniors, MHM Members free. Reservations not required.

Love in the Parlors: A Valentine in Concert
Date: Monday, February 14 (snow date Thursday, February 17)
Time: 7 pm
Location: Merchant's House Museum, 29 East Fourth Street (btwn Lafayette & Bowery)
Description: A 75 minute program of romantic songs and arias by 19th-century composers performed in the Museum's Greek Revival double parlors by members of the Bond Street Euterpean Singing Society: Anthony Bellov, Rosalind Gnatt, Jane Rady, Dayle Vander Sande. Bellini, Schumann, Gounod, Wagner, Amy Beach and more. $25, $20 Students & Seniors, $15 MHM Members. Reservations required; call 212-777-1089 or visit merchantshouse.org/events.

About the Merchant's House Museum
The Merchant's House Museum is New York City's only family home preserved intact - inside and out - from the mid-19th century. Home to a prosperous merchant-class family for almost 100 years, it is complete with the family's original furnishings and personal possessions, offering a rare and intimate glimpse of domestic life from 1835-1865. On the web: www.merchantshouse.org