Presentation: Good Stories about Great Stuff

Every object in our collection has an interesting back story. Discover who created the object, who owned it, and how it ended up in the Colonial Williamsburg Collection. Each week an object will be explored by a curator, conservator, educator, archaeologist, or historian.

March 4: Faces of Early Williamsburg: Portraits from the Colonial Capitol - Kate Rogers

March 11: Adding a Friendship Album to the Collection - Emily Nootbaar

March 18: An Archaeological Discovery from the Williamsburg Powder Magazine - Eric Schweickart

March 25: Home Movies - Tracey Gulden

April 1: Hunting, Murder, and Bacon - Christina Westenberger

April 8: New Paintings Accessions Laura Barry

April 15: Arms from Flixton Hall - Erik Goldstein

April 22: Hunting, Murder, and Bacon - Christina Westenberger

April 29: Tobacco Hoes from an Archaeological Perspective - Sean Devlin

May 6: Material Culture and the Public Hospital - Margaret Perry & E. Katherine Hargrove

May 13: An Archaeological Discovery from the Williamsburg Powder Magazine - Eric Schweickart

May 20: The Excavation of a Rare Bleu Persan Flower Urn - Kate McEnroe

May 27: Material Culture and the Public Hospital - Margaret Perry & E. Katherine Hargrove

June 3: Conserving Firearms from the Magazine - Isabelle Lobley

June 10: New Research in Paintings - Laura Barry

June 24: Archaeological Collections Highlight - Sean Devlin

July 1: Hull & Sanderson: Silver - Erik Goldstein

July 8: Faces of Williamsburg: Portraits from the Colonial Capitol - Kate Rogers

July 15: Tally Ho! Conservation of a Child’s Riding Toy from 1880 - Aliza Taft

July 22: Treating Two Large Glass Vessels - Charlotte Li & Katie Linder

July 29: Conservation of an 18th-C. Wall Gun - Tina Gessler

August 19: Costume Mounting and Display - Jackie Peterson-Grace

August 26: Archaeological Collections Highlights - Sean Devlin

 

Programs are subject to change.