ZIMMERLI SPONSORS DAY TRIP TO HISTORIC ESTATE, NATURE PRESERVE & ART MUSEUM JUNE 12

Day Trip— Locust Grove and Dia:Beacon WHEN: June 12, 7:15 AM to 7 PM COST: $125 members, $145 nonmembers Travel packages include bus fare and gratuity, museum entrance fees, guided tours and lunch. Curators from the Zimmerli accompany each trip to add insight and connect each destination to their museum. For information, call 848.932.6771 or email membership@zimmerli.rutgers.edu.     Locust Grove Historic Estate, Museum and Nature Preserve Overlooking the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie, New York, the 200-acre Locust Grove Estate includes an Italianate villa designed in 1851 for artist and inventor Samuel F. B. Morse by architect A. J. Davis. Fifty years later the house was renovated and expanded for new owners William and Martha Young. Their daughter, Annette Innis Young, eventually created the foundation that preserves the Estate as a museum today. The Estate opened to the public in 1979 and today features the Young family’s 15,000-piece collection of furniture, paintings, and decorative arts, just as they were used in the early years of the twentieth century. (Click on titles for more information) Dia:Beacon Dia:Beacon is part of Dia Art Foundation’s constella­tion of sites. Occupying a former Nabisco box printing factory on the banks of the Hudson River, Dia: Beacon presents Dia’s collection of art from the 1960s to the present, as well as special exhibitions, new commissions, and public and education programs. Since its opening in May 2003, Dia:Beacon has helped transform the city of Beacon into a vibrant arts destination for visitors from the region, New York City, and beyond. Lunch at the Coyote Grill is included. For details and registration, visit the webpage. FREE ADMISSION: May 16, 17, and 18 Join us in celebrating Rutgers University—New Brunswick Alumni Weekend Rutgers University Commencement Association of Art Museum Directors' (AAMD) Art Museum Day   The Zimmerli's operations, exhibitions, and programs are funded in part by Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and income from the Avenir Foundation Endowment, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Endowment Fund, and the Voorhees Family Endowment, among others. Additional support comes from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; the Estate of Victoria J. Mastrobuono; and donors, members, and friends of the Zimmerli Art Museum.