NYC’s South Street Seaport Museum Normandie Exhibit

December 1, 2009 on 9:43 am | In East Coast, Museums, New York City | Comments Off


New York City Explorer Pass: NYC AttractionsFamed luxury liner SS Normandie, which met an inglorious ending at the bottom of New York Harbor, comes back to life through photos, recreated interior and more than 100 remarkable items from the art deco era in the new exhibition, “Decodence: Legendary Interiors and Illustrious Travelers Aboard the SS Normandie,” which will open on Feb. 18 at the South Street Seaport Museum, at 12 Fulton St. (between Front Street and Water Street) in Manhattan.

The exhibition is organized into two parts: The Ultimate Ocean Liner and Art Deco Luxury Afloat.

The Ultimate Ocean Liner portrays Normandie as the premier passenger ship and conveys the experience of booking passage on the ocean liner.

Visitors will review Normandie promotional pamphlets and travel posters, then walk into re-created sections of the ship. Items to be displayed include the ship’s wheel, a model of Normandie, interior renderings and souvenirs from the ship’s maiden voyage.

The SS Normandie operated for the French line Compagnie Générale Transatlantique from 1935 to 1940 and made hundreds of commercial voyages between France and New York.

Dubbed a “floating palace,” the Normandie remains the most powerful steam turbo-electric propelled passenger ship ever built.

The United States took control of the Normandie during the German occupation of France and converted the ship into the USS Lafayette.

While being transformed into a military vessel in 1942, the USS Lafayette caught fire and sank in the New York Harbor. The cost of restoring the ship was deemed to great and the USS Lafayette was scrapped in 1946. “Decodence: Legendary Interiors and Illustrious Travelers Aboard the SS Normandie” will run through January 2011 and is free with the price of admission to the museum.

For more information, visit www.southstreetseaportmuseum.org

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