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This exhibit features three large-scale treehouses created by the country's best designers.
This exhibit features a selection of Rogers' large-scale sculpture, including bee beautiful beehives, flowers, butterflies and hummingbirds, all created from natural materials.
This exhibit delves into the sights, sounds and science of pollination.
This exhibit features over 100 patent models dating back to the 19th century.
The first du Pont Family home in America, Eleutherian Mills, was built by E. I. du Pont in 1803. Situated on the crest of a hill, it affords a commanding view of the Brandywine River, with a dam which
This exhibit focuses on the DuPont family's decision to come to America, the manufacturing of black powder and the role of explosives in 19th and early-20th-century life.
This fun, hands-on exhibit allows visitors to explore simple machine technology such as wheels, levers, gears and pulleys.
'From the Orient: Souvenirs From Captain Samuel Francis Du Pont's Voyage of 1857-1858.' This exhibit features decorative and fine arts, furnishings and other items colleged by Captain S
Massive stone mills, storehouses and a waterwheel recall the time when waterpower was the source of energy. Exhibits and working models tell the history of the economic and technological expansion of
This exhibit chronicles 200 years of DuPont Company history. Check out some of the company's innovative products, sit in Jeff Gordon's #24 NASCAR vehicle, admire an astronaut's suit and
This area focuses on the social and family history of the workers who operated the powder mills. Costumed interpreters reflect life during the late 19th century.
Almost forty years after he first inherited his family home at Winterthur, Henry Francis du Pont explained his motivation creating more than 175 period rooms. He said it was a desire to "show Ame
The ceramics and glass gallery showcases the remarkable survivors of these fragile art forms. Examples from Winterthur's extensive holdings of American glass and English, Chinese, French and Amer
The metals gallery includes displays of silver, brass and iron that illustrate how metals were formed into useful and beautiful objects. The displays explore the properties of different metals to disc
The Dominy Clock Shop and Woodworking Shop are reconstructions of shops used by the Dominy family, four generations of craftsmen who worked in East Hampton, New York, from the mid 1700s to the mid 180
'The Campbell Collection of Soup Tureens' at Winterthur is a permanent exhibition on display in Winterthur's Dorrance Gallery. This treasure trove of artfully crafted tureens in fascina
The 'In Wood' display presents aspects of Winterthur's world-renowned furniture collection. A cabinetmaker's chest of tools, samples of raw materials and designers' pattern bo
Visitors often think of Winterthur as a decorative arts museum and are therefore surprised to discover the caliber of works on display in this gallery. Many of the paintings, prints and drawings on vi
'In Style' offers an overview of the characteristics that distinguish the eight major design styles popular in America between 1640 and 1860. Glancing along the length of the gallery, the vi
Textiles were one of Henry Francis du Pont's first loves. From quilts to gowns, needlework pictures to bedcovers, Winterthur has some of the finest works of textile art made or used in America. T
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