The Museum & Grounds are now closed to the public.
The Museum will reopen for Self-Guided Tours on April 3rd. Guided Tours resume on April 28th.
Tickets now available.
The Museum & Grounds are now closed to the public.
The Museum will reopen for Self-Guided Tours on April 3rd. Guided Tours resume on April 28th.
Tickets now available.
Join us for our fourth annual Eric Pape fine art exhibition at the Hammond Castle Museum, featuring a significant collection of pen and ink illustrations by Eric Pape (1870 to 1938). Many of these works were recovered from Pape’s locked studio decades after his death and have not been publicly exhibited in over a century. Included are illustrations originally created for The Arabian Nights, Tales of Wonder and Magnificence, Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris, Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Shakespeare and The Heart of a Child by Gertrude Slaughter.
This year’s exhibition will feature 73 works on loan from renowned conflict zone photographer Bruce Haley. These pieces have recently been cleaned and conserved and have not been publicly exhibited since Eric Pape’s death in 1938. The illustrations are being loaned from Haley’s extensive art collection in Northern California. The exhibition will also include more than a dozen works from Dr. Gregory Conn’s personal collection, previously exhibited at the Queen Christina House Museum and the Museum Kloster in Zeven, Germany.
Admission to this temporary exhibition also includes self-guided tour access to the Museum. Guests will also have the opportunity to view the sole remaining Eric Pape mural on permanent display in the Dr. Gregory Conn and Dr. Sagrario Ortega Room in the Lower Den.
9:00 am – 3:30 pm, and the last admittance is at 2:45 pm.
Admission to the exhibition and Self-Guided Tours:
Please note: The Invention Room and Natalie Room will be closed to the public during this exhibition as we prepare to open our two new temporary exhibits: Inside the Faraday Cage: “The Science of Things That Aren’t So” and “A Tale of Two Pianos: (Invention Room feature), both of which will open on Saturday, May 2nd.
This year’s exhibition will feature 73 works on loan from renowned conflict zone photographer Bruce Haley. These pieces have recently been cleaned and conserved and have not been publicly exhibited since Eric Pape’s death in 1938.
The artwork is primarily on loan from the private collection from renowned conflict zone photographer Bruce Haley. A number of pieces will be from the private collection of avid Pape collector and biographer Dr. Gregory Conn, one of the world’s leading experts on the 20th-century artist. Click Here To Learn More About Pape
During your visit, you will also be able to view The Wireless Naval Battle of Gloucester Bay, the only surviving mural by the famed artist. The mural was designed as a gift for John Hays Hammond Jr., the inventor and Museum’s founder. Installed and on permanent display in what is now the Lower Den exhibit room, this oil painting depicts a fictitious battle in Gloucester Bay. Pape based the scene on his own experiences with Hammond and was heavily influenced by Hammond’s work for the military. The naval battle scene includes Hammond’s own radio towers, which he erected on the bay shore, as well as the searchlight that Hammond installed for light-controlled, guided vessels.
The restoration work on the twenty-two-foot-long by two-foot, ten-inch-wide mural was generously sponsored by Dr. Conn and his wife, Dr. Sagrario Ortega. The project was completed in 2020.
