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This Weekend's Events

Sat 02

Ice Spectacular 06:30am @ Longwood Gardens

Up-and-coming talents, professionals and Olympic-level ice skaters put on a show in Longwood's outdoor rink, which will be decked out in lovely holiday lights.


Sat 02

A Longwood Christmas 09:00am @ Longwood Gardens

Vistors can stroll through Longwood's lovely holiday decor, including floral displays, decorated trees and a dazzling light display. Live musical performances add to the festive air.


Sat 02

The Buds & the Bees: Pollination & the Secret Lives of Plants 09:00am @ Longwood Gardens

This exhibit delves into the sights, sounds and science of pollination.


Sat 02

Christmas at Hagley 09:30am @ Hagley Museum & Library

See the museum decked out in its holiday finest.


Sat 02

The Science of Supercroc 09:30am @ Delaware Museum of Natural History

This exhibit explores the world of the Sarcosuchus imperator, a 40-foot-long crocodilian animal that dwelt in the Sahara over 100 million years ago.


Sat 02

Greg & Jon Mort: Explorations 10:00am @ Somerville Manning Gallery

This exhibit features a selection of Jon Mort's graphite portraits and Greg Mort's serene oils and watercolors.


Sat 02

Period Rooms 10:00am @ Winterthur Museum & Country Estate

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


Sat 02

Ceramics & Glass 10:00am @ Winterthur Museum & Country Estate

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


Sat 02

Good Tidings to You 10:00am @ Winterthur Museum & Country Estate

'Good Tidings to You: Victorian Christmas Ephemera From the John & Carolyn Grossman Collection.' This exhibit features an assortment of Christmas-themed printed materials from the late 1


Sat 02

Yuletide at Winterthur 10:00am @ Winterthur Museum & Country Estate

Take a guided stroll through H. F. du Pont's mansion and delight in holiday ambience and festive decorations of yore, including a number of rooms that will reflect various seasonal vignettes.


Sat 02

Painting & Prints 10:00am @ Winterthur Museum & Country Estate

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


Sat 02

Frontier Delaware 10:00am @ Delaware History Museum

This two-part exhibit examines the history of Dutch and Swedish explorers in the Delaware region.


Sat 02

The Campbell Collection of Soup Tureens 10:00am @ Winterthur Museum & Country Estate

'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


Sat 02

Maxfield Parrish: Illustrated Letters 10:00am @ Delaware Art Museum

This exhibit features letters penned by a teenage Maxfield Parrish, in which he wrote about and illustrated his travels through Europe.


Sat 02

Dominy Shops 10:00am @ Winterthur Museum & Country Estate

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


Sat 02

Fantasies & Fairy Tales: Maxfield Parrish & the Art of the Print 10:00am @ Delaware Art Museum

This is the first travelling exhibition of Parrish's color lithographic prints, made from his original paintings.


Sat 02

That Was Then This Is Now 10:00am @ Barnstone Gallery

This exhibit compares contemporary American artworks with the work of master artists from the 18th-through-20th-centuries.


Sat 02

Guided Tours 10:00am @ Rockwood Museum

Tour this historic building, built by Quaker merchant banker Joseph Shipley between 1851 and 1854. Its Gothic revival architecture and enchanting landscape were designed by Shipley to reflect the beau


Sat 02

In Style 10:00am @ Winterthur Museum & Country Estate

'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


Sat 02

Metalworks 10:00am @ Winterthur Museum & Country Estate

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