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‘Global to Local: International Events and the First State’ series at the Zwaanendael Museum through March 24, 2018

Series explores how world events have impacted Delaware’s history.




‘Listen Up!’: How About Something Different?

Program took place between April 16, 2016 and April 8, 2017.




‘Lost Off Lewes: The British Warship DeBraak’

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




‘Lost off Lewes: The British warship DeBraak’

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




‘Making the First State Shine: 50 Years of Historic Preservation in Delaware’

18th annual Chautauqua to take place in Lewes, Del. from June 19 to 23, 2016.




‘Middletown Goes to War’ exhibit closed on June 30, 2016

EXHIBIT CLOSED June 30, 2016.




‘Mischief Managed: Throwing a Hotsy-Totsy Halloween Bash’ at the Johnson Victrola Museum on Oct. 30, 2020

Historical-theater presentation depicts a 1927 guide to throwing the perfect Halloween party.




‘Museum Minutes’: Sharing Delaware history digitally

Zwaanendael Museum staff created this series of short videos on local history after COVID-19 temporarily prevented physical visits to the museum.




‘Over There and Back Again!’ program at Dover, Del.’s Old State House on Nov. 11, 2018

Lead historic-site-interpreter Gavin Malone will portray a World War I veteran discussing the differences in American society between the 1910s and the early 1920s.




‘Queenstown and the Early Colonial Delmarva: An Archaeological and Historical Symposium’ at the New Castle Court House Museum on Oct. 13, 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.




‘Separation—Freedom for Delaware’ at the New Castle Court House Museum on June 9, 2019

Activities to include demonstrations by the First Delaware Regiment and “Caesar Rodney in his Own Words,” a historical play exploring the views of the famed Delaware patriot.




‘Service, Suffrage, and Swing: World War I Era in Delaware’

America’s participation in “the war to end all wars” will be brought to life during this five-day program that will take place at a variety of downtown Lewes, Del. locations from June 18–22, 2017.




‘Stitching on the Light: A Virtual Stitch Along’

Online cross-stitch embroidery program from the Zwaanendael Museum during January 2021.




‘The Amazing Hannah Penn’ — virtual living-history performance on Oct. 24, 2020

Virtual living-history program in which Jean Norvell portrays the proprietress of Pennsylvania and wife of William Penn.




‘The Empty Glass: Sherlock Holmes Comes to Dover’ to be presented at The Old State House on Aug. 18, 2018

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




‘The Rising Sun: The U.S. Constitution’: The Old State House’s Coffee-Hour Lecture Series to take place in April 2019

Fun and thought-provoking Constitutional programs to take place on April 4, 11, 18 and 25, 2019.