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Future Exhibits at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum

Conservation: Where Art and Science Meet

This exhibition presents a different way of looking at museum objects. Visitors will discover what is harmful to objects and what preserves them. Before an object is shown, conservators investigate each piece with a variety of fascinating techniques to understand the object and ensure its preservation for the future. Opening Summer 2010.

Opens Saturday, June 26, 2010

This Old Coffeehouse

This exhibition will explore the recent reconstruction of Charlton’s Coffeehouse, the first ground-up reconstruction along Duke of Gloucester Street in several decades which involved every department and trade in the Foundation. Learn how such a building could be so accurately constructed and furnished when seemingly very little was left of the original structure. Through archaeological, architectural, archival, decorative arts, and trades components discover the process of rebuilding the history, structure, and interiors of the coffeehouse. Through video, graphics, original objects, and touchable reproductions, visitors will learn firsthand what it took to bring the project to completion. Opens September 25, 2010.

Opens Saturday, September 25, 2010