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Date Posted: Thursday, September 5th, 2019

Historical play about the Delaware patriot by museum historic-site interpreter David Price.


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Date Posted: Tuesday, February 18th, 2020

Museum to feature a workshop on cross stitch, a form of embroidery in which X-shaped stitches are used to form a picture.


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Date Posted: Tuesday, August 21st, 2018

Eleven Lenapé-themed programs to be presented at three downtown Dover locations.


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Date Posted: Tuesday, May 8th, 2018

Tours explore the surviving hull section of an 18th-century shipwreck


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Date Posted: Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018

Event will include scholarly presentations on My Lord’s Gift, a 17th century archaeological site in Queenstown, Md.; and the Coleman Farm, Reedy Island and Fort Casimir sites in Delaware.


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Date Posted: Tuesday, August 7th, 2018

Holmes and Dr. Watson attempt to solve a grisly murder based on an actual Dover court case.


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Date Posted: Sunday, December 19th, 2021

Work is underway to restore the Weldin House in Wilmington. Find out what HCA has planned.


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Date Posted: Tuesday, January 21st, 2020

Highlights include programs on Black leaders in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, African Americans on the Eastern Shore and screenings of the three-part “American Epic” which explores how the ordinary people of America were given the opportunity to make records for the first time.


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Date Posted: Wednesday, May 15th, 2019

Archaeological investigation seeks to find evidence of the fort originally built by Dutch settlers in 1651.


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Date Posted: Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018

Naval engagement played a decisive role in America’s victory in its struggle for independence from Great Britain.


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Date Posted: Wednesday, March 24th, 2021

Site likely holds the enslaved individuals and other African Americans who lived, worked, and died on land owned by the Dickinson family.


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Date Posted: Monday, January 22nd, 2024

Organizers of the 2024 Delmarva Archaeology and History Symposium are calling for presentations for the April 27 event.


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Date Posted: Wednesday, September 12th, 2018

Program cancelled due to Hurricane-Florence-related cancellations by panelists.


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Date Posted: Thursday, October 25th, 2018

Program cancelled based on anticipated heavy rain and wind.


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Date Posted: Monday, December 12th, 2022

By Paul Nasca, curator of archaeology at the Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs Without a doubt, the single largest and most challenging artifact to care for in the state’s archaeological collections is the hull remnant of the HMS DeBraak. The HMS DeBraak was a British warship that was escorting and protecting a convoy of […]


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Date Posted: Monday, January 17th, 2022

By Elizabeth Coulter, Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs Curator of Collections The Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs has recently accessioned two works by contemporary artists James Wyatt and J the Artist that memorialize the political and social moment of 2020. The Division currently accepts donations to the state’s Historic Collection, and […]


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