Starting in the 1970s Winterthur Museum and Gardens began offering holiday tours, Yuletide has since become a holiday tradition. Tours of the museum were so successful the director of the museum ...

WINTERTHUR, Del. (AP) – The museum at the Winterthur mansion – one of the most famous sites in Delaware – will closed for February and part of March to save money. Spokeswoman Vicki Saltzman says it’s ...

A pair of du Pont cousins, one in love with a woman and the other devoted to plants, used their vast family fortune to create a pair of mansions within minutes of each other in the Brandywine Valley, ...

Unless you are an antiques dealer or collector, you may stifle a yawn at the idea of spending a day admiring “the world’s finest and most extensive collection of early American decorative arts.” But ...

Looking for something to do this holiday season that will keep you out of the cold and capture the magic of the season? Take a tour of some of Delaware's house museums. It can be a fun afternoon and ...

Winterthur carries on the legacy of its famous founder, Henry Francis du Pont, by making visitors at the mansion and museum feel right at home. Once the home to the du Pont family’s well-known ...

Holiday happenings are chugging along at some area mansions, with toy train displays and decorated rooms. At the Brandywine Museum of Art, one gallery is transformed every Christmas for a huge model ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Winterthur Museum's new exhibition "Jacqueline Kennedy and H. F. du Pont: From Winterthur to the White House" opens May 7 and runs through Jan. 8, 2023. The following story was ...

"Downton Abbey" is a crowd-pleaser. When the fourth season of the award-winning British family saga opened on PBS in January, 10.2 million of us turned on our tellys. Fans relish the opulence and ...