Quirky toys, whimsical whirligigs, carousel characters, backwoods banjos, British ceramics, antique instruments, textiles, firearms, clothing and more await you at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum and the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum at Colonial Williamsburg.
Use your admission ticket or pass to see these distinctive collections.
As part of the final stages of our exciting 65,000-square-foot expansion, please follow signs to the temporary Art Museums entrance. Soon, the new visitor-friendly entrance will be ready to welcome you on Nassau Street.
Museum Expansion
The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg are expanding to provide new gallery space and improved access to the Dewitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Art Museum. The museums will remain open during construction.
Admission Tickets Grant You Art Museums Access Too!
Include a trip the Art Museums in your next visit, with a multiday or single day ticket. Or purchase a $14.99 ticket for just the Art Museums!
See if you can find the match to these nine clues as you explore our virtual tour of three exhibitions at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg.
Learn MoreExplore and search our Online Collections to learn more about The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's vast collections.
Learn MoreBritish Masterworks: Ninety Years of Collecting at Colonial Williamsburg
Textile Arts of Britain: A Commodity for the Colonies
To Arm Against An Enemy: Weapons of the Revolutionary War
Artists on the Move: Portraits for a New Nation
Upholstery CSI: Reading the Evidence
A Rich and Varied Culture: The Material World of the Early South
Richard Newsham’s Fire Engine
Rebuilding Charlton’s Coffeehouse
Revolution in Taste
Folk Art Underfoot: American Hooked Rugs
Navajo Weavings: Tradition and Trade
Down on the Farm
From Forge and Furnace: A Celebration of Early American Iron
America’s Folk Art
American Ship Paintings
Sidewalks to Rooftops: Outdoor Folk Art
German Toys in America
Conserving the Carolina Room
We The People: American Folk Portraits
With three museums in one, there’s so much to see and do at Colonial Williamsburg, so this is one mailing list you'll want to join. Stay informed about upcoming events, opening exhibitions, new programming, and be the first to get great special offers at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum and The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum as well as the living history museum.
Before an artifact or antiquity reaches Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Area or our Art Museums, it is analyzed, examined, treated, and documented by a team of conservation professionals, interns, and volunteers. Conservators work hand in hand with curators to preserve the cultural property in the Colonial Williamsburg collections.
Learn MoreAn internship or fellowship with Colonial Williamsburg Division of Museums, Preservation, and Historic Resources provides the opportunity to research, manage, interpret, preserve, and conserve the Foundation’s fine art, decorative arts, archaeological, architectural, and/or folk art collections, gaining professional experience through hands-on work.
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