2021 Winterthur Garden Symposium
The Secret Garden Friday, September 17, 9:00 am–5:00 pm Registration is now closed. Frances Hodges Burnett’s 1911 novel The Secret Garden has been a gateway to gardening for generations…
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Marian Coffin Symposium
This fall marks the 150th birthday of Marian Coffin, the pioneering woman of landscape architecture who designed the gardens of Winterthur, Gibraltar, Winterthur, and Mt. Cuba, the University of Delaware…
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Inlay and Marquetry Conference
Image: Gerrit Jensen, marquetry panel, London, 1685. Courtesy of Burghley House, Lincolnshire. The Wonder of Wood: Decorative Inlay and Marquetry in Europe and America, 1600–1900 A Winterthur Museum, Garden &…
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Needlework Conference
The Needle’s I: Stitching Identity October 6–7, 2022 Needleworkers have always used needle and thread to tell stories of family, memory, and tradition as they stitched samplers or clothing.…
Furniture of Eighteenth-Century Newport, Rhode Island
Explore materials, techniques and points of connoisseurship of 18th-century furniture from the Winterthur collection made in the Newport, Rhode Island workshops of the celebrated Townsend and Goddard families of cabinetmakers…
Shifting Tides: Art in the 18th-Century Caribbean
April 20–21, 2023 Join leading and emerging scholars, museum professionals, and community partners as we rethink narratives surrounding colonial art in the Caribbean region. Shifting Tides: Art in the 18th-Century Caribbean aims…
The Denig Manuscript Project: Art Making in the Early American Borderlands
Early in 2020, Winterthur received the gift of an extraordinary leather-bound manuscript made in the 1780s by Ludwig Denig (1755-1830), a shoemaker and apothecary who live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The…
Ann Lowe Fashion Symposium
In the Legacy of Ann Lowe: Contemporary American Fashion October 20-21, 2023 Ann Lowe (ca. 1898–1981) designed couture-quality gowns for six decades for America’s most elite women, including Jacqueline Kennedy,…
March into Spring
Winterthur is pleased to host the Hardy Plant Society/Mid-Atlantic Group’s annual conference, A Changing World. Plant and garden book vendors will be on-site for perusal and purchase. Registration required. Register…
Looking Back to the Future: Realizing the “Afric-American Picture Gallery”
Almost Unknown, the Afric-American Picture Gallery brings to life William J. Wilson’s 1859 fantastical essay. This symposium will explore broader approaches to how Wilson’s essay can be integrated into American…