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Museums : The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
325 West Francis Street
Williamsburg, VA 23185
Ticket required.
Open daily 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., March 17-December 31, 2008
Opened in 1985, this museum is home to an extensive collection of American and British antiques. See furniture, metals, ceramics, glass, paintings, prints, firearms,and textiles from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Attend lectures and musical performances in the Hennage Auditorium.
Enter through the Public Hospital of 1773, a three-part exhibit on mental illness and treatment methods.
The Museum Store (open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.) offers a range of books, music, jewelry, gifts, and accessories reflecting the museum's collection of 18th and early 19th-century decorative arts.
The Museum Café (open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.) offers sandwiches, soups, beverages and desserts.
New exhibits on view
A Child's-Eye View
Captured Colors: Four Battleflags of the American Revolution
American Schoolgirl Needlework: Records of Virtue
The
Museums of Colonial Williamsburg offer a special audio tour written and
recorded by teenagers for teenagers called “Teen
Takes: A New Angle on Art.” Museum curators augment the
teens’ insights during the hour-long tour of 17 decorative arts
and folk art pieces. The audio tour devices are available daily at the
museum’s front desk in the museum lobby and are free to ticketed
guests. Colonial Williamsburg Productions and Antenna Audio Tour produced
the tours.
Listen
to a sample clip
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