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Roebling Museum in the Main Gate
Six galleries will exhibit the complete history of the Roeblings: inventions, products, factories, bridges, the family, the workers, and the village they built.
Origin
The Roebling Museum Project was developed by the Roebling Historical Society over ten years ago. As part of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cleanup of the 240-acre Superfund site that was once the Roebling plant, the EPA is spending $6.1 million as a pilot project to refurbish the Main Gate building of the Roebling plant as a 7,500 square foot museum. They are also cleaning up seven acres of surrounding land to exhibit major industrial artifacts from the plant, including a 28 ft. Flywheel, a pair of elevated Craneways and a Steel Charging Pot and Ladle that are already on display.
Roebling Museum
Executive Director Appointed
Patricia Millen
The Board of Directors of the Roebling Museum appointed Patricia Millen Executive Director. Patricia has a strong resume in museum administration and is well prepared for the position. Her duties will include fund raising, overseeing the development of exhibits and educational programs that lead to a successful opening of the museum.
She began her work on October 6, 2008 from the newly opened Museum office on the corner of Hornberger and Delaware Avenues in Florence
Township, NJ.

Mission Statement
The Mission of the Roebling Museum is to document, preserve and exhibit the history of the John A. Roebling's Sons Company, the Roebling family and Village of Roebling. Its focus is on the industrial and technological achievements of the company and also on the unique social history of the company's workforce and the town it created. The Museum bridges a storied past and present by providing exhibits and lecture, directed at the interests of the world-wide public while also serving as a resource for school curriculum programs and academic research.

Board of Directors
The new Roebling Museum Board of Directors was created in January '07 to oversee fund-raising and the development of exhibits for the industrial heritage museum to be created in the Main Gate Building and the surrounding millyard.
The unique 20-member board includes six direct descendents of the Roebling family, including board chair, Linda McDonald, who is a great-great-great grand daughter of John A. Roebling , six members of the Roebling Historical Society, two former Roebling workers and a current council member. Clifford Zink, author of Spanning The Industrial Age: A History of John A. Roebling's Sons Company, has been retained as historic preservation consultant.

PHOTOS WERE TAKEN OF THE MUSEUM DURING RESTORATION