EXHIBITIONS

Beacons of the Delaware

For LILAC’s 90th birthday in 2023, we launched on-board exhibits about our ship’s history and restoration. We will continue to add to these displays in coming years.

We are also screening one of our veteran interviews, Steve Vani remembering his days as a LILAC seaman, in the Main Gallery/CPO Mess.

On display in the Petty Officers’ Quarters is an exhibit highlighting the lighthouses and lightship tended by LILAC, which was previously exhibited at the National Lighthouse Museum in late 2023.

Trinity Lightship, UK, by Elaine Marie Austin

Past Exhibitions

2024 - Tom Fox: Take a Walk on the Old West Side Waterfront

2022 - Graciela Cassel: River Dreams

2021 - Melissa Godoy Nieto: Waters Change, Colors Fade

2021 - 88 LILAC

2019 - Voices of Lighthouses: Paintings by Elaine Marie Austin

2019 - Vestiges of Industry: Maritime Studies by Jean Miele

2018 - Innerspace Microsculptures by Andrew Paul Leonard

2018 - Nocturnal Flora by George Kroenert

2017 - Bell 8, by Deirdre Towers

2017 - Weathered and Splintered, by Ryan Frank

2017 - Shipwrecks of New York’s ‘Great’ Lakes

2017 - The Hidden Hulks of New York Harbor