Posts Tagged ‘Museums’
in Museums, What's New
July 19, 2011
King’s Colour flag
View the “King’s Colour” in the online feature New in the Collection. Zoom in to see close up the flag that first flew during the French and Indian War when it was issued to the British Army’s 96th Regiment of Foot under Colonel George Monson. The regiment was retired in 1765.
You may also see the flag when you visit The Colonial Williamsburg Art Museums.
New in the Collection is an online adaptation of the Colonial Williamsburg journal’s regular fixture “Just Arrived,”
in Museums, What's New
June 24, 2011
Museums Celebrate 26 Years
Join us tonight as we celebrate the 26th birthday of The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg. Watch free the movie Night at the Museum 2: the Battle of the Smithsonian, tour the Museum, enjoy free cake and ice cream, and purchase a picnic dinner. Bring your lawn chairs or a blanket. We’ll see you there!
Lawn opens for seating at 5:00 p.m.
Movie begins at 8:45 p.m.
July 9, 2010
Quilts at the center of our newest exhibit
“Material Witnesses: Quilts and Their Makers,” the newest exhibition at Colonial Williamsburg’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, offers testimony about the people who created the textiles as it generates new questions that remain unanswered.
Learn more about the exhibit.
As part of their documentation and design, coverlets and quilts often include written words — words that record the lives of the makers who signed the textiles, often proclaiming personal beliefs through patriotic or religious messages. Other textiles reveal their tales more quietly, their stories coaxed into daylight only through avid research of various records, including genealogies of the makers. Yet other stories are told through motifs of the textile creation itself, such as an appliquéd patriotic eagle, a woven rose sprig or the embroidered outline of the maker’s hand.
The “Material Witnesses: Quilts and Their Makers” exhibition is made possible by a gift from the Turner-Gilliland Family Fund of Menlo Park, Calif., and reflects Mary Gilliland’s interest in textiles. She and her husband, Clinton, have supported Colonial Williamsburg through restricted and unrestricted gifts since 1980.
Explore the Colonial Williamsburg Art Museums.
in Museums, Visit & Events, What's New
March 23, 2010
25th Anniversary Lecture Series at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
Join Barbara Luck, Curator of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, as she shares details of Steve Harley’s brilliantly colored landscapes from the 1920s. This Thursday, March 25, 7:00 p.m., in the Hennage Auditorium, at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum. A Colonial Williamsburg admissions ticket, museum pass, or Good Neighbor Card provides access for the public.
Learn more about the 25th Anniversary Lecture Series at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum.
in Multimedia, Museums
March 16, 2010
Browse collections online with eMuseum
Explore our museum collections online with eMuseum. More than 4,000 antiques and works of art are archived in this online database along with images, place, maker, date, and condition.
in Multimedia, Museums, Podcasts, What's New
March 15, 2010
Podcast: New in the Collection
In this week’s podcast, Chief Curator and Vice President for Collections, Conservation and Museums Ron Hurst describes the rare and poignant objects that joined the Colonial Williamsburg museum collections in 2009.
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