31 Results for tag "Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg"

• Tour: Art Museums Overview

  Join us on a 20-minute guided tour and enjoy some Museum favorites at a glance.

• Presentation: Good Stories about Great Stuff

  Join a curator, conservator, educator, archaeologist, or historian to discover who created the object, who owned it, and how it ended up in the Colonial Williamsburg Collection.

• Museum Discoveries: Crafting the Collection

  After exploring the galleries, drop by the Education Studio and create a work of art inspired by an object on exhibit.

• DIY Craft: Quilting

  Discover the story of Susana Allen Hunter, quilter, and enjoy a mini quilting project.

• Presentation: Excavation to Programming

  Join a Nation Builder and a Colonial Williamsburg Archaeologist as they discuss important sites in Williamsburg from the 18th century to today.

• DIY Craft: Inspired by the Collection

  Celebrate National Craft Month at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg.

• Evening Program: Almost Past Service

  Join Mrs. Washington as she seeks advice from her enslaved woman, Doll, about the great decision ahead and the change it will bring to the entire family.

• Museum Discoveries: The Public Hospital of 1773

  Visit the Public Hospital of 1773 for a discussion about 18th-century mental health and the history of the reconstructed mental hospital.

• DIY Craft: Jane Austen

  Explore objects on exhibit through the works of Jane Austen, then make an inspired bookmark to take home.

• Presentation: Good Stories about Great Stuff Kids

  Calling all KIDS! Join us as we explore stories about objects chosen just for YOU!

• Presentation: 250 Years of Eastern State Hospital

  Join us for a discussion about 18th-century mental health treatments and the history of the reconstructed mental hospital.

• Presentation: Historic Trades Talk

  Join our experts from the Governor’s Musick ensemble or Historic Trade shops as they share their research with you.

• Performance: A New Republic

  This series of museum theater programs relate to the rights and responsibilities of citizenship and democracy.

• Performance: Revolutionary Acts

  This series of museum theater programs relate to the experience and meaning of the Revolution for the 18th-century Williamsburg community.

• Music: Art Museums

  Enjoy music that has come from distant shores to become our music.

• Art Museums Members: Stitched in Time

  Art Museum Members are invited to join us for a private tour of the exhibition Stitched in Time with Kim Ivey, senior curator of textiles.

• Music: Phillis Wheatley and the Music of Freedom

  Join the Governor’s Musick in a musical exploration of the paradox of freedom as seen through the poetry of Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved person and well-known poet.

• Music: From the Stories of Jane Austen

  Experience Jane Austen's world with music from the novelist's personal collection performed on the Organized Piano, a rare organ-piano hybrid instrument from Williamsburg history.

• Museum Discoveries: Textile Collection

  Drop in the art museums and take a sneak peek into the textile study storage drawers.

• Music: A 4th of July Grand Military Sonata

  Enjoy a musical celebration of this momentous day in American history with a 19th-century military keyboard sonata by James Hewitt, an American composer.

• Presentation: Pride not Prejudice

  Join members of the Gender and Sexual Diversity Research Committee to explore some of the exciting research they have uncovered.

• Music: Composed in Early America

  Join Kyle Collins, Governor's Musick keyboardist, and discover lesser-known solo keyboard works composed in early America, performed on Colonial Williamsburg's Organized Piano.

• Performance: Community Connections

  This series of museum theater programs relates to the need to belong, identify, and struggle with and against our community.

• Special Event: A Taste of Freedom

  This performance tells the story of Americus Weston’s journey to freedom during the Civil War, developed to commemorate Juneteenth.

• Special Event: An Evening with the Presidents

  Join George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison to discuss their experiences as presidents.

• Special Event: A Patriotic Celebration

  Celebrate Independence Day with the Governor’s Musick members as they play the music that saw our transition from English colonies to American states.