Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library will open its gates for free Saturday, Sept. 30, for Discover Winterthur, a program designed to make the former du Pont estate available to everybody. In addition to being able to tour a part of the 175-room mansion or see the beautifully elegant exhibition “Ann Lowe” American Couturier” about the heralded Black fashion desiger, the …
Rockwood Park and Museum will kick off its panoply of Halloween and paranormal events with its first Goth Ball, set for Sept. 29. “We’ve been leaning into our Best of Delaware status for paranormal tours – adding October programs like the haunted trails, oddities tour and the Revisionists in 2022 and 2023,” said Rockwood director Ryan Grover. “But the Goth …
Visitors have a choice in the Delaware Museum of Nature and Science‘s Be The Astronaut exhibit opening Saturday: Land on the moon, Mars or Jupiter. The exhibit, the first that the museum has offered since revealing its total gut-and-renovation a year ago, combines science and gaming. It not only allows kids to learn the science that put mankind into space, …
Hagley Museum and Library has rolled the success of its long-standing Bike, Hike and Brew nights and its Dog Days of Summer, which allowed guests to bring furry pals, into an all-encompassing Summer Nights program. Now every Wednesday night, patrons can bring their families and pets to the site of the Du Pont Co.’s gunpowder factory along the Brandywine …
A collection of Pete du Pont’s papers is now open to the public at Hagley Museum and Library. It includes decades 0f the former Delaware governor’s public writing, as well as photos, scrapbooks, recordings and correspondence with family members. Among the material in the archive are items related to du Pont’s 1988 campaign to be the Republican nominee for president …
A 150-pound gingerbread recreation of the Winterthur mansion will greet guests heading out on its Yuletide tour this year. The gingerbread house, which sits on a 4-foot-by-8-foot base, was delivered Thursday by Bredenbeck’s Bakery of Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. Its cakes have been featured on TLC and the Food Network. Diana Anello, head sugar artist for Bredenbeck’s, said she wasn’t …
Winterthur’s Artisan Market will return July 16-17 with more than 100 vendors scattered in five locations around the grounds. Guests can walk to them or ride a trolley along the garden pathway to quicker access, with entertainment giving the event more of an old-fashioned festival feel. Last year’s inaugural event was a raging success, partly because the 5,000-plus attendees …
A South American deer called a pudu died Saturday after becoming sick the day before at the Brandywine Zoo. The pudu, named Haechan after a K-pop star, came to Delaware in December to mate with the Wilmington zoo’s female, named Clover, and sire offspring. After seeming lethargic Friday and getting worse during the day, Haechan was moved to the Animal …
Mt. Cuba Center has used old spaces, 12,000 native plants and environment-friendly materials to give patrons a more charming way to enter its botanic gardens. Visitors now may park in a new well-landscaped two-level lot. It leads them to a building once used as staff housing where patrons may buy tickets on the way in and Mt. Cuba plants on …
During the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the reimagined Museum of Nature and Science, New Castle County Executive Matt Meyer told the crowd that his administration is going to propose a $500,000 grant for the institution. “Everything we do in county government right now – similarly to what’s going on in the city of Wilmington – is about diversity, equity and inclusion,” …
