Pages Tagged With: "museums"

Recyclables help Zwaanendael purchase bench

Museum collected more than 200 pounds of refuse to offset the cost of a new recycled-plastic piece of outdoor furniture.




Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer

Afro-British musician’s works were recorded by the Victor Talking Machine Company.




Save the date — 2021 Chautauqua

Entitled, “The I’s Have It: Industry, Innovation, and Invention,” activities to take place in Lewes and New Castle during September 2021.




Saving the Past, Shaping the Future in 2023

Hundreds of area students recently got to experience the wonders of historical exploration first-hand.




Schedule of Events, September 10, 2022

New Castle Court House Museum Facebook livestream and in-person on the New Castle Green All programs are free. Programs are offered in-person and some via Facebook livestream. “Songs of a […]




Schedule of Events, September 11, 2022

New Castle Court House Museum Facebook livestream and in-person in The New Castle Visitor Center at The Arsenal due to the weather All programs are free and are offered in-person […]




Schedule of Events, September 8, 2022

Zwaanendael Museum in-person and livestreamed on You Tube All programs are free and open to the public. Travelling Victrola Demonstration – 12:00 p.m. Join former historical interpreter Kay Powell as […]




Schedule of Events, September 9, 2022

Zwaanendael Museum in-person and livestreamed on You Tube All programs are free and open to the public. Travelling Victrola Demonstration – 12:00 p.m. Join former historical interpreter Kay Powell as she […]




Shades of Spring 2024 across First State historic sites

See the varied colors of recent native planting projects taking root at sites like Belmont Hall and the annual blossoming of tulips along the coast in Lewes as spring arrives at Delaware’s historic sites.




Social practices in art

Article explores artist Denis A. Volozan and his portrait of George Washington which hangs in The Old State House.




Statement about unauthorized media images of the John Dickinson Plantation burial ground

Dignity of those interred must be respected.




Submit photos — and win prizes — during the Delaware Day Adventure, Dec. 3–12, 2021

Explore the division’s museums, learn and explore Delaware history, and submit photos to win a prize.




Sussex Gardeners deck the halls of the Zwaanendael Museum

Holiday display through December 2016 features preserved flowers, fruit, evergreen branches and other plant material.




Sussex Gardeners make the holidays lively at Zwaanendael Museum

This recent holiday season, the Sussex Gardeners designed festive arrangements with live plants to decorate the Zwaanendael Museum.




Sussex Gardeners to decorate Zwaanendael Museum for the holidays

Decorations presented in conjunction with the Lewes Lights event.




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.