The nonprofit Historic Trappe – a historical society, Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, and house museum-in-one –announced a new curator to oversee exhibitions, acquisitions and collections.
Christopher Malone, per Historic Trappe’s Facebook page, will also assist in the interpretation of the nonprofit’s four historic sites: the Dewees Tavern, Muhlenberg House, Speaker's House, and Muhlenberg Parsonage.
At present, Malone serves as curator and digital marketing manager for Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia. Similar to his work at Historic Trappe, Malone processes church archives, curates small exhibitions, and produces social media content for the archives center.
Malone holds a master’s in architecture from Syracuse University and a master’s from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware.
His thesis on the way Moravian material culture was influenced by outsider visitation during its first century in Pennsylvania won the E. McClung Fleming Thesis prize.
Malone, publisher and editor of the Facebook/Instagram blog “The Daily Antiquarian,” also contributes as a writer for Maine Antique Digest and Americana Insights.
Historic Trappe is dedicated to preserving and conserving the stories of the people, places and events that shaped Trappe Borough.
According to its website, its Center for Pennsylvania German Studies in the Dewees Tavern has five exhibition galleries on furniture, fraktur, textiles and more. The Henry Muhlenberg House is a furnished museum that explores the families of Lutheran pastor Henry Muhlenberg, including his son Gen. Peter Muhlenberg.
Historic Trappe’s third site, The Speaker’s House, was the home of Frederick Muhlenberg and remains an ongoing restoration site.
Muhlenberg parsonage, built in 1745, is also under the banner of Historic Trappe, and is undergoing architectural investigations presently.
