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Discover Winterthur
Discover the treasures in your own backyard on this admission-free day at Winterthur! Get outside and explore the garden, take a hayride over the hills, or learn something new in…
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Opening Weekend Activities
Enjoy pop-up tours, family-friendly activities, and a French-themed menu in the Visitor Center Café, celebrating the On Tour: Lafayette, America’s Revolutionary Rock Star exhibit, co-hosted with People to People of Delaware. Included…
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Truck & Tractor Day
Get up close to big equipment, suit up in firefighter gear, take a hayride, and more on this day of farm-style fun. Included with admission. Members free. This is a…
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Virtual Panel Discussion with Transformations Artists
Join select Transformations artists, including Aspen Golann, Elaine Ng, Joey Quinones, and Andrew Raftery, as they discuss their work and respond to audience questions. Moderated by Catharine Dann Roeber, director of Academic…
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Objects Up Close Virtual Lecture: Lancets & Smallpox at Winterthur Museum
Discover how a lancet tucked away in a medicine chest at Winterthur reveals the complex networks of the 18th-century material world, and how lancets became essential objects in combating smallpox,…
A Dickens Halloween
Gerald Charles Dickens, the actor and great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens, returns to Winterthur for performances from two of the author’s most haunting readings, “Sikes and Nancy” and “The Tale of…
A Dickens Halloween
Gerald Charles Dickens, the actor and great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens, returns to Winterthur for performances from two of the author’s most haunting readings, “Sikes and Nancy” and “The Tale of…
Murder Mystery
Join us for this first-ever event! You’ve been invited to a night of glamour and high society by H. F. du Pont in October 1924, but disaster falls before you…
Tailgate Tour: Winterthur’s Old Souls
Hear chilling stories of people who spent earthly time on the estate. Who were they? Do they still call Winterthur home sweet home? After this guided walk with Tyler Johnson,…
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How Well-Worn Books Tell Stories Lecture
We are often told not to write in our books. But for historians, written-in, well-loved books are precious resources that give us a glimpse into how people read and what…
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Objects Up Close Virtual Lecture: An Early 19th-Century Fireplace Bellows
Before the Industrial Revolution, fireplace bellows were decorative objects and essential household tools used to regulate flames. Learn about the conservation process of a deteriorating bellows in the collection and…
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Conservation Clinic
Bring your objects to this free event and faculty and students of the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation will consult on the condition, care, and possible conservation treatment…