Division launches on-line calendar of events
Calendar provides comprehensive, long-term listings of programs taking place at the division’s five museums, and at the Buena Vista Conference Center.
Take a seaside vacation—and see where Delaware’s modern history began
Delaware’s Atlantic Ocean resorts offer a wide variety of historical attractions including Swanendael, the site of Delaware’s first European settlement.
First State National Historical Park to be created
Legislation passed in Congress in December 2014; awaiting President Obama’s signature.
Thirteenth annual Delaware Day competition winners announced
Program encourages students to study the U.S. Constitution.
‘An Illegal Activity: The Underground Railroad in Delaware’ exhibit closed on Dec. 7, 2014
EXHIBIT CLOSED on Dec. 7, 2014.
Oliver Berliner, grandson of the inventor of the phonograph, to speak at the Johnson Victrola Museum
Oct. 4, 2014 program to focus on one of the pioneers in the music industry: Emile Berliner.
History was made here: Cooch-Dayett Mills
Historic Newark mill was built in the 1830s.
‘Emeline Hawkins: Her Journey from Slavery to Freedom on the Underground Railroad’ exhibit closed on July 23, 2017
Exhibit closed on July 23, 2017
‘Simple Machines’ display at the John Dickinson Plantation
Display focuses on the six simple machines (inclined plane, screw, wedge, pulley, lever, and wheel and axle) that constitute the elementary building blocks of which many more-complicated machines are composed.
Exhibit ‘Delaware and the War of 1812’ closed on March 19, 2016
EXHIBIT CLOSED March 19, 2016.
