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The region's five largest gardens — Hagley Museum & Library, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, Longwood Gardens, Nemours Estate and Mt. Cuba Center — are in a constant state of rebirth and renewal. Every day something blooms, and every visit offers something new.
But other changes are in store as well. Here are four things you won’t want to miss:
American ingenuity oa n d i s p l a y a t H a g l e y
n innovative spirit is something
that’s practically in the water at Hagley Museum. Once it was the site of the original black powder works of the DuPont Company, powered by the mighty Brandywine River. Today, the museum of innovation counts almost 5,000 patent models among its collection — the largest private collection in the world — including the original models for Mason jars, Yale locks, corpse preservers, an artificial leg, and improvement in boats for duck hunting. Many are on display now, but a major exhibition is planned for 2017.
A Yule to remember
the region glistens with color and warm-hearted cheer around the holidays, from the twinkling lights of Longwood to the festive decorations at Winterthur and Hagley, and beautifully decorated homes in the historic towns of New Castle and Odessa.
For a complete seasonal guide, go online to visitwilmington.com/ holidays
An historic opening for the
Celebrating 100 years of
Anndrew Wyeth
o one has ever captured the
beauty and the humanity of the Brandywine Valley like Andrew Wyeth. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth, the Brandywine River Museum of Art presents “Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect,” a once-in-a- lifetime collection of more than 100 of his paintings and works on paper, some well-known and some rarely seen, in the first in-depth chronological examination of his career since 1973. The exhibit opens in June 2017 before moving to the Seattle Art Museum in October. (While at the Brandywine art museum, visitors may hop a shuttle to the original Andrew Wyeth Studio, the artist’s principal Pennsylvania work place from 1940 to 2008. Guided tours are available from April through November.)
Center for African American eritage and Old Town Hall
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renovation of the Delaware History Museum will finish in the fall
of 2016. Visitors will be able to tour the fully restored Old Town Hall, once the center of Wilmington politics and society. The new Center for African American Heritage will explore the African-American experience in an area rich with culture and history, in
a city that was one of the last stops on the Underground Railroad before freedom in Pennsylvania. Exhibits will highlight Delaware’s place as a coastal state, a colonial crossroads, and an industrial leader.
two-year, multi-million-dollar
Hike to History:
The east point of the Mason-Dixon Line
Delaware is the only state that lies east of the Mason-Dixon line. Discover the exact place where that historical line begins on the TRI-STATE MARKER
TRAIL recommended by the Wilmington Trail Club: Take a 3.5 mile loop from White Clay Creek State
Park Nature Center to the Tri State Marker — the point where Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland connect. About half the trail is
in White Clay Creek Preserve, Pennsylvania, and the rest is in Delaware. Continue another quarter mile, and you’ll
find the Arc Corner Monument marking the place where the Arc of Delaware meets the Mason-Dixon Line.
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