It was a pretty wholesome scene for a Friday night opening in Williamsburg. But the peanut butter sandwiches and bundled-up babies weren’t misplaced, considering the subject at hand: milk.

The New York Food Museum’s new exhibit Over Spilt Milk showcases perfectly preserved propaganda, cartons and cartoons from the Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative’s fight against big business in Depression-era New York. Curator Hi’ilei Dye’s cotton-clouded dioramas are the highlights of the exhibit, for those who need a little art with their history, the proverbial cookies with their milk.

Mistrust of big business, love for locally farmed foods, it all feels so modern. “It’s not a story about total despair,” said Hi’ilei. “It’s got a postive side…these people gathered themselves up and fixed the market.” You know how the adage goes. It’s no use crying…

Over Spilt Milk | The City Reliquary | 370 Metropolitan Avenue | Williamsburg, Brooklyn | Saturdays and Sundays 12-6 through May 3