Its' opening celebration in 1929 [[on the 50th anniversary of the invention of the incandescent light bulb)....
During their 50th anniversary year in 1979, the Village and Museum also prominently recognized and publicized the 100th anniversary of Edison's invention of the first commercially successful incandescent light bulb. While visiting Washington DC in April of that year, I asked an employee at the Smithsonian's Museum of History and Technology why they did not even have a small temporary display in recognition of the anniversary. His response basically was "has it been a century already?"