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Admission Packages & Tours
General Admission
A stunning house museum, a majestic garden, fascinating exhibitions-experience all these aspects of Winterthur each time you visit.
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Take an introductory tour of the house
See highlights of the collection in an array of beautiful rooms used by the du Ponts for entertaining, including the fabulous Chinese Parlor.
Experience the Winterthur Galleries
and special exhibitions
Extraordinary exhibitions highlight the very best from Winterthur and from distinguished institutions and collectors around the world.
View the
Campbell Collection of Soup Tureens
On permanent display in the Dorrance Gallery, this treasure trove of artfully crafted tureens captivates young and old alike.
Take a garden tram tour and stroll
in the
Winterthur Garden
Winterthur's 60-acre naturalistic garden showcases lyrical color combinations and a beautifully orchestrated succession of bloom.
Discover
Enchanted Woods
This award-winning, three-acre children's garden is a magical place where children can discover, explore, and play.
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Reserved Tour Packages
Space and availability for reserved tours is limited. Please call 800.448.3883 to confirm availability and make your reservation.
One-Hour Reserved Tour Package
Each season brings new ways to view Winterthur's glorious period rooms. This package includes all general admission features and one of the following one-hour reserved tours.
American Interiors
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Explore the lives of men, women and children long ago through the objects they owned. Settings for cards and tea reveal how early Americans spent their leisure hours.
Once Upon a Family
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Learn about the lifestyle of the du Pont family while exploring period rooms and garden spaces where they played, worked, and entertained. Designed especially for families with children age 4-11.
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Two-Hour Reserved Tour Package
For connoisseurs, students, or anyone interested in an in-depth exploration of the collection. This package includes all general admission features and one of the following two-hour reserved tours.
Winterthur Then & Now
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Winterthur was—and is—a country place, a beautiful house, a rare and unusual garden, and a center of learning and scholarship. This tour focuses on the life of the du Pont family in the first half of the 20th century, the development of the collection of American decorative arts, and the evolution of a private estate into a public resource.
Living With Antiques I
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This two-hour tour explores one half of the house. View American furnishings from the 1600s to the 1800s in the inviting rooms designed by H.F. du Pont. Among the highlights is Winterthur's outstanding collection of colorful Pennsylvania-German folk art.
Conservation
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(first Wednesday of every month)
Go into any major museum in America and odds are good that the conservators who care for the collections trained at Winterthur. On the first Wednesday of every month, from 1-3 PM, tour the world-famous conservation laboratories where works of art and antiquity are examined, studied, and cared for by expert conservators.
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Space and availability for reserved tours is limited. Please call 800.448.3883 to confirm availability and make your reservation.
Special-Subject and Private Tours
For a customized tour of the house or to study a particular aspect of Henry Francis du Pont's magnificent collection, ask about our Private Tours and Special-Subject Tours. Please call 800.448.3883 for more information and pricing. Reservations required three days in advance.
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