The exhibition’s genealogical section, tracing the life of Joost Springsteen, the Boss’s earliest New Amsterdam ancestor, offers ways to explore beyond the town’s famous son. Parked in the museum’s garden is an antique truck the musician and his manager used to travel from gig to gig – and to Woodstock. Clothes, including boots and a leather bomber from the 1980s, sit alongside a Bruce Springsteen board game created and marketed in Europe by a French fan. There are unreturned keys from hotels Springsteen stayed at early in his career, and a letter to his landlady where he admits to practising his autograph. ![]() Some are the MCHA’s own, others come from the Springsteen Archives of Monmouth University in Long Branch (his town of birth), with more from private collectors and the Boss himself. ![]() More than 150 objects are on display at the exhibition, which runs until the end of September 2020. Scrapbook made by Bruce Springsteen’s mother, Adele.
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