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At the Museum

Available Tuesday-Friday. Note: there is limited availability for field trips for the 2023-24 school year. Please email school@winterthur.org for availability. All Title I bus scholarships have been claimed.  Adopt an Object Grades Pre-K-2  Students investigate daily life…

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The Story of Winterthur

Amid the hills of the historic Brandywine Valley, where the paper was milled for the Declaration of Independence and where three generations of Wyeths have painted landscapes, Winterthur sits as it has for generations, a grand…

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In Your Classroom

Available on Mondays. Note: there is limited availability for field trips for the 2023-24 school year. Please email school@winterthur.org for availability. Limited to schools within 30 miles of Winterthur All programs are 60 minutes and limited to 25…

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Bloom Report #25

Winterthur Museum, Gardens & Library WINTERTHUR BLOOM REPORT #25  October 1, 2020 70F, partly cloudy +: Abundant fbb: Flower-bud breaking b: Some bloom fb: Full Bloom pf: Petals falling/drying pb: Past bloom (few remain) ber: Berries,…

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Major Plant Groupings

In 1962 an interviewer asked Henry Francis du Pont (1880-1969) to discuss the defining aesthetic principles of his great naturalistic garden at Winterthur. Du Pont replied, “For me, color is the thing that counts more than any other.”…

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About H. F. du Pont

Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969) was born at Winterthur and, in his words, “always loved everything connected with it.” A member of Delaware’s industrialist du Pont family, he studied at Bussey Institution, Harvard’s college of practical…

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Winterthur/UD Program in Art Conservation

The Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC) is a graduate-level program jointly sponsored by the University of Delaware and Winterthur. It is a three-year course leading to a master of science in art conservation.…

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