Daily News | Seaport Museum exhibit will explore the history of life and work on the Delaware riverfront
Many of those stories will be revealed in a new exhibit called “At the Water’s Edge: Working and living along the Delaware River” at theOpening April 14, it will be the first exhibit of the museum’s new Richard C. von Hess Foundation Gallery, which will be on the museum’s second floor.
The exhibition spans from early Native American settlement along the Delaware to the mid-1900s, and includes items like a sea chest from a ship called the Empress of China built shortly after the Revolutionary War. It was the first American ship to make it to China, said Bruns.
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