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All Winterthur Members receive free admission and additional benefits when a valid Winterthur Membership card is presented at botanical gardens, arboreta, and conservatories that participate in the American Horticultural Society’s Reciprocal Admissions Program. Visit the AHS’s…
Treasures on Trial: The Art and Science of Detecting Fakes reveals the intriguing tales of more than 40 forgeries and counterfeit objects of all types. This exhibition poses the questions: Do we see what we think we see?…
Winterthur has a secret. Scattered throughout our lounges, libraries, laboratories, and offices is a collection of midcentury modern furniture that has as much of a story to tell about American design as the furniture that populates…
Winterthur’s ceramics collection includes about 19,000 objects of types made in or imported into America from the 1600s through the mid-1800s. The earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain in the collection represent a broad range of manufacturing and…
With Hammer in Hand: A Story of American Craft Discover the story of three generations of the Dominy family, skilled craftsmen who worked and traded in the racially diverse community of East Hampton, Long Island, in…
Artfully crafted in fascinating forms, the Campbell Collection of Soup Tureens features sculpted metals, precious porcelains, and elegant earthenwares among the materials found in this wide range of tureens and soup-related objects made in Europe, Asia,…
Winterthur’s American furniture collection is the largest and arguably the finest in the country. With a wide range of regional and stylistic forms, the collection of more than 9,000 objects spans the mid-1600s to the 1870s.…
From the outset of his collecting in the 1920s, Henry Francis du Pont recognized the importance of portraits, paintings, prints, and maps to the room settings he was creating at Winterthur. In December 1929, he wrote to dealer…
Henry Francis du Pont began collecting American glass early in his career, and by 1924 his private collection included more than 70 pieces. As well as selecting objects for their color and design, du Pont strove…
Metalsmiths who settled in colonial America and trained successive generations of craftsmen left a legacy of metalwork important to all aspects of life. Winterthur’s impressive collection of American-made and imported metalwork encompasses more than 21,000 objects…