Lockwood Mathews receives national award

From left: Katherine Kane, American Association of State and Local History Council chair; Susan Gilgore; and John Dichtl, AASLH president and CEO. Photo courtesy of AASLH.

Norwalk”™s Lockwood Mathews Mansion Museum has received the “Leadership in History Award of Merit” from the American Association of State and Local History. Museum Executive Director Susan Gilgore, traveled to Austin, Texas, to receive the award during a banquet.

The museum was recognized as being among “the best in state and local history” for its exhibit “The Stairs Below: The Mansion”™s Domestic Servants, 1868-1938.” It was a museum-wide exhibition and guided tour, with focus on documents, artifacts, images, costumes, and uniforms ”“ and the mansion plan itself ”“ displayed throughout the period rooms of the building.

While the exhibition officially closed last year, a portion remains open. The project was aimed at launching a cultural dialogue on class, race, ethnicity, politics, labor relations, and social history during a half-century of ascendancy and through the lens of two households.

More information on schedules and programs at LMMM is at lockwoodmathewsmansion.com.