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The Social History and Material Culture of Early American Music, as Seen and Heard through its Instruments, Will Delight Visitors in New Exhibition at the Art Museums of Colonial WIlliamsburg
- July 11th, 2022 08:29
In the 18th century, music was everywhere: in the workplace, the military campsites, the quarters of the enslaved, the church, the theater, the ballroom and the home. Music was an ...
Read More...New Exhibition that Recreates America's First Confederation-Era Department of Foreign Affairs in New York City to Open at Fraunces Tavern® Museum in June
- May 23rd, 2022 11:07
While Fraunces Tavern in New York City is one of the 18th-century’s best-known taverns and the site of General George Washington’s famous farewell to his officers at the end of the ...
Read More...Explore the Process of Restoring an 18th-Century Town in a New Exhibition Opening at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg
- March 14th, 2022 09:26
Decades ago a simple wooden board in use as a shelf was discovered in Belle Farm, an 18th-century house in Gloucester County, Virginia. It turned out to be much more than an untrained eye ...
Read More...The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Receives Gift of Rare Navajo Chief's Blanket
- November 1st, 2021 10:18
As America honors Native American Heritage Month in November, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation announces that it has received a rare Navajo First Phase Chief’s Blanket from the late ...
Read More...Colonial Williamsburg and William & Mary Announce Future Location of Williamsburg Bray School, Launch Joint Initiative to Research Building’s Complex History and Expand Understanding of Founding Era
- October 29th, 2021 09:24
What is likely the oldest extant building in the northern hemisphere used for the purpose of educating enslaved and free Black children is relocating to Colonial Williamsburg’s historic ...
Read More...Historic First Baptist Church’s Original Permanent Structure Discovered During Colonial Williamsburg Archaeological Dig
- October 7th, 2021 12:33
After a year of excavating the site of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, Colonial Williamsburg’s archaeologists believe they have found what they and members of First Baptist ...
Read More...The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Acquires Rare Paul Revere Tankard
- August 30th, 2021 06:51
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has added to its renowned American and British silver collection a rare tankard made ca. 1795 by America’s best-known colonial silversmith, Paul ...
Read More...Rare George Washington Indian Peace Medal Acquired by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
- July 12th, 2021 13:58
When George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United Sates 232 years ago in April 1789, the nation’s leaders were well aware that “peace medals” given as diplomatic ...
Read More...New Textile Exhibitions Await Visitors to the Expanded Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg in Summer 2021
- June 28th, 2021 15:01
Visitors to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, one of the two expanded Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia, will experience two new textile ...
Read More..."A Gift to the Nation: The Joseph and June Hennage Collection," an Exhibition to Honor a Landmark American Decorative Arts Bequest, to Open at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg This Month
- June 15th, 2021 09:53
Earlier this year, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation announced the most significant single American decorative arts bequest in its 90-year history: The Joseph H. and June S. Hennage ...
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