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Daylong series of activities exploring the adventure, romance, excitement and hardships experienced by seafarers.

Lewes event provides visitors with an opportunity to experience seafaring lives of adventure, romance, excitement and hardships, and to honor mariners who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Follow us on: Featured Online Exhibit Segregated Sands: Beach-Going in Jim Crow Era Delaware This exhibit brings to the forefront the history and stories of the Black American experience at Delaware’s segregated beaches during the Jim Crow era. If you’re inspired by this exhibit and would like to tell your story, then we invite you to […]

Tours and other interpretive programs take place throughout normal operating hours. Large groups that are interested in a tour must make reservations in advance by calling the museum at 302-645-1148. Exhibits & Displays First and Second Floor Galleries Delaware Railroads: Elegant Travel and Timely Transport This exhibit utilizes photographs; and posters, tickets, timetables, maps and […]

Contest challenged amateur photographers to submit images of what makes Lewes unique.

The Zwaanendael Museum is a showcase for Lewes-area maritime, military, and social history. Modeled after the town hall in Hoorn, the Netherlands, the museum commemorates the founding of Delaware’s first European settlement by the Dutch in 1631. Swanendael Settlement The following text is taken from the interpretive panel of the de Vries Monument located on […]

Donated plastic will be used to offset the purchase price of a recycled-plastic bench.

Tours explore the surviving hull section of an 18th-century shipwreck.

Open between July 8 and 15, 2020, contest seeks photos of what makes Lewes unique.

Walking tours explore the darker and more unusual aspects of Lewes, Delaware history.

Tours explore the surviving hull section of an 18th-century shipwreck.

The Zwaanendael Museum, a long-time showcase for Lewes-area history, has been chosen as Delaware Today’s Readers’ Pick Downstate Museum.

Kaitlyn Dykes and Anthony Batterton are helping the museum bring to life the Lewes-area’s maritime, military and social history.

Devon Filicicchia and Patrick Ruhl are helping the museum bring to life the Lewes-area’s maritime, military and social history.

Employee helped develop many of the programs now in use at the museum.

Coastal Style Magazine’s Best of 2021 celebrates the finest museums, programs and services that the Eastern Shore has to offer.