Event Calendar

Take a tour and sample some Delaware Craft Beer! The best deal in town, for $5 you get the tour, five samples, and a pint glass to take home. Sample our signature beers, Hop Mountain and Fordham Copperhead, as well as the Delaware Beer Bracket winner, Oak Barrel Stout. More

Presented by the Delaware Art Museum Council, the Holiday House Tour is always a seasonal highlight! Tour 10 spectacular Wilmington area homes bedecked for the holiday season. The Tour also features 12 talented regional artisans, who will display their wares at the Museum on Tour day.  More

The Delaware Choral Society will present Handel's Messiah on December 8, 2012, at Wyoming United Methodist Church in Dover, DE. The not-to-be missed event will feature Handel's popular oratorio, MESSIAH, which will be performed by the 90+ voice membership of DCS, as well as featuring world renowned soloists and an incredible orchestra of local talent, including many members of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra. Tickets will be $25 for General Admission, $20 for Military and Seniors, and FREE for… More

Shop for great gifts and enjoy family-friendly activities plus, pick up your handmade Holly wreath! More

Use nature’s bounty to make a wreath for the holidays! Meet at the Nature Center. Cost is $10 per person and includes natural materials to make a vine wreath. Please bring clippers and gloves. Pre-registration required. More

On Saturday, December 8, 2012 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. the New Castle Historical Society’s (NCHS) Amstel House and Dutch House will be open for candlelight tours along with the Delaware Historical Society’s (DHS) Read House & Gardens and the New Castle Court House Museum, operated by the State of Delaware. Visitors will walk from one historic site to the next along New Castle’s charming brick sidewalks, lined with festive luminaries, and may even meet a group of carolers… More

"Come back for...A celebration of THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS 2012. A family event sponsored by The New Castle Presbyterian Church "355 Years in the Community" & The New Castle Visitors' Bureau, New Castle, DE, on Saturday, December 8, 2012, from 10:00 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. at The New Castle Presbyterian Church, 32 East 2nd Street, and Historic New Castle, DE. For information call (302) 328-3279 or visit our website at www.newcastlepreschurch.org. All events are free! A full day of… More

Alison Stigora Natural Forces Constance S. and Robert J. Hennessy Project Space September 7 – December 9, 2012 Stigora creates elaborate gallery installations using burnt wood. Her work explores human activity and the destructive forces of nature. More

Family Fun every Saturday - FREE hot apple cider, holiday hayrides, and smores by the fire - Fresh-cut locally grown Christmas trees - Fresh local wreaths - Handcrafted gift baskets - Great gift ideas and holiday goodies - Special guests each Saturday 11/24: Book signing 12/1: Miss.Jackie sings children's favorites and local honey samples from our beekeeper Warren Seaver 12/8: Santa and Mrs.Claus and local honey samples 12/15: Book Signing and local honey samples *Check website for times of… More

The world’s most well-known holiday story gets a completely new sound – along with a different title – this year at Clear Space! This musical incarnation of the Charles Dickens classic debuted off-Broadway in 1992 and has subsequently played in theatres across the country. Composer (and CSTC Artistic Director) Doug Yetter is at the forefront once more as the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, journeying through London of past, present and future on a flight of transformation. Bring the… More

Kozma presents colorful, hand-embroidered pencil drawings of organo-geometric forms that generate a dialogue about the natural and built environment. More

All Your Holiday Favorites, LIVE On Stage at New Candlelight Theatre! ARDENTOWN, DE- This holiday Season, New Candlelight Theatre will present Christmas by Candlelight, a musical revue that will warm the hearts of theatre-goers of all ages. “It is the story of a small American town putting up their Christmas show in the local theater. A town not unlike Ardentown”, says Bob Kelly, consulting artistic director and writer/director of Christmas by Candlelight. The show will include over… More

Experience an Old English Christmas inspired by children's book illustrator Randolph Caldecott and his seasonal interpretations from Old Christmas. More

The image of the eagle has been an important icon in the history of the du Pont family. The du Pont family came to America on the ship “American Eagle," the DuPont Company's first product was Eagle Gun Powder, and decorative arts collected by Mrs. Louise du Pont Crowninshield were adorned with eagles, a common symbolic element in Federal-style furnishings. This exhibit is on display in the du Pont family ancestral home, Eleutherian Mills. Included in regular admission and tour. Free for members.… More

Commemorating the nation’s most successful university-museum partnership, A Lasting Legacy explores the changing roles of conservation and curatorial scholarship over the past 60 years. More

Glimpse nineteenth- and early twentieth-century holiday entertaining in Eleutherian Mills, the du Pont family ancestral home. The morning room is ready for the New Year’s Day Calling, originally a tradition in which men visited ladies with whom they were acquainted, enjoyed some refreshment, dropped off a calling card, and wished them a happy New Year before moving on to the next house. Men competed to visit the most ladies; women vied to get the most calling cards. The du Pont family… More

Nicholas Kripal: New Work E. Avery Draper Gallery September 22, 2012 – January 6, 2013 Kripal’s elegant ceramic forms derive their shape from disposable food containers of the past. His work straddles the line between fine art and design. More

Kripal’s elegant ceramic forms derive their shape from disposable food containers of the past. His work straddles the line between fine art and design. More

Winterthur’s major new exhibition, Uncorked! Wine, Objects & Tradition, is a joyous celebration of objects and imagery created in response to society’s love of wine. Featuring more than 300 objects, Uncorked! explores how wine was marketed, consumed, and enjoyed in America and Britain from the 1600s through the 1800s. A wide range of materials are represented, from wine bottles, decanters, and cellarettes to lead figures of Bacchus and “Champagne Charlie” song sheets.… More

Yuletide at Winterthur: A Feast for the Eyes, November 17, 2012–January 6, 2013. Experience traditions of the past and dazzling entertaining displays in this special wintertime tour. Whether you are taking in the breathtakingly decorated trees, the colorful and exquisite room and food displays, or the winter wonderland of the garden, Yuletide at Winterthur is sure to be a feast for your eyes. In addition to the magical Yuletide tour, a full series of special events, performances, and… More

Young Country specifically examines how artists living in “fringe” art centers are re-defining ideas of fine art, class, and “country” in America. More

Timothy and Stephen Quay are American-born stop-motion animators whose latest film brings to life the medical history and intrigue behind the Mutter Museum’s collection of 19th century scientific anomalies. More

Freak Antique: Contemporary Art Curios DuPont II GalleryOctober 27, 2012 – February 10, 2013 Great expeditions, colonialism, geographic wonders, industrialization, genetic mutations, freak shows, and classical antiquity are some of the subjects of this exhibition-as-cabinet-of-curiosities. More

Girandola uses duct tape to render local, national and global cultural icons. From the Taj Mahal to vintage cars and L.A. diners, his large-scale canvasses reflect layered social commentary through a folk vernacular. More

Amazing food, value and fun for the entire family! Over 70 individual owner operated shoping including PA dutch meats, baked good and much more!.  More