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Summer 2021 Guest Experience All Outdoor Programs are Weather Permitting Begins June 13, 2021 Updated June 21 Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg–10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Daily Discover our collections of fine, decorative, and folk art in our expanded gallery space. Visit through the new entrance and explore all new exhibitions, Museum Store and Café. • Visit with tradespeople in the galleries to explore techniques and tools used in their trades - Daily: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. • Donors who contribute $250 or more annually to the Colonial Williamsburg Fund are invited to visit with a Nation Builder on Sun & Thu at 10:30 a.m. (except July 4) in the Hennage Auditorium. A free reservation ticket is required. • Take a 20 min. guided tour of Museum favorites in "At a Glance" - Daily at 10:30 a.m. • Enjoy programs in the Hennage Auditorium at 10:30 a.m., 1:30 & 4:30 p.m. Check schedule at the Art Museums. • Take one of several guided tours and then create a work of art - Daily at 12:30 p.m. • After you browse through the galleries, stop in to create your own work of art in "Art Stop" - Daily at 3:30 p.m. • Join in a Museum Murder Mystery on Wednesdays at 4 p.m. Adult: $10.00, Youth: $5.00, Child: $5.00 Charlton Stage Experiences - Daily 11:45 a.m., 2:45 & 4 p.m. • Visit a Nation Builder - Daily 11:45 a.m. & 2:45 p.m. • American Indian Life Series - Sun–Wed: 4 p.m. • Created Equal - Fri-Sun in July: 4 p.m. • Drawing the Line - Fri & Sat in Aug-Sep 4: 4 p.m. • Joy In the Morning - Fri & Sat in June: 4 p.m. • My Story; My Voice - Thu: 4 p.m. Historic Sites – 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. American Indian Interpretation - Sun-Thu: 10 a.m.–12 noon • African American Religion exhibit – Daily Governor's Palace East Courtyard • Wythe House & Yard Exploration – Daily American Indian Encampment - Sun-Thu: 1:30–3:30 p.m. • Capitol Exploration – Daily Custis Square Archaeology Project - Mon-Fri 9:30 a.m. Take a guided tour of the first floor entering through the –12 noon & 1–4 p.m. Courtroom and exiting through the House of Burgesses. Rediscover Custis Square Tour - Mon: 9:30, 11 a.m. & 1:30, 3 p.m. • Courthouse Exploration – Daily Experience justice in the 18th century in an original building. Entertainments at the Play House Stage – Sat & Sun in • Governor's Palace Exploration – Daily June; then Mon–Sat: 11 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. Explore the first floor of the first Virginia governor's home. Fire a Flintlock Musket - Fri-Tue: 9:30, 11:00 a.m. & 1:30, 3 p.m. • Presbyterian Meetinghouse – Daily Fire live rounds at a target from reproduction 18th-c. firearms. Many dissenting Protestants worship in meeting houses. Williamsburg Lodge Adult: $95.00, Youth: $95.00 • Public Gaol Cell Yard – Daily Freedom's Paradox – Daily: 10:00, 11:00 a.m., 12 noon, & 1:45, 2:45, 3:45 p.m. • Randolph Kitchen & Yard Exploration – Daily Walking tour, explore the paradox of the institution of slavery. Discover the household, home to 27 enslaved people. Begins at the Randolph House Private Family Tour - Daily: 10:15 a.m. Historic Trade Shops – 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Your private guide will lead your family through town. • Apothecary – Sun–Tue, & Fri Begins at the Geddy House Family Group: $50.00 • Bindery – Sun, Mon, Thu, Sat Public Auction - 6/18, 7/2, 7/4, 7/30, 8/13, 8/27, & 9/3 at • Cabinetmaker & Harpsichord Maker – Thu–Sun 12 noon; 6/19, 7/24, 8/7, 8/21, & 9/4 at 1:30 p.m. • Carpenter's Yard – Daily Auction Stage next to the Magazine Yard • Cooper – Mon, Tue, Fri, Sat Summer Breeze Concerts - Wed: 6 p.m. • Engraver – Tue, Wed, Sat On the lawn in front of the Art Museums • Growing a Colonial Garden – Daily Ghost Walk Junior– Daily: 5:30 & 6:45 p.m. Appropriate for ages 4+ (45 min.) • Governor's Palace Kitchen – Sun–Tue In Front of Weaver Adult: $8.00, Youth: $8.00, Child: $8.00 • Gunsmith Shop – Sun, Mon, Tue, Fri Haunted Williamsburg– Daily: 7:00 & 8:30 p.m. • Joinery – Sun, Mon, Wed Brave centuries of scares! (1 hr.) • Military Activity – Daily Play House Stage Adult: $19.00, Youth: $12.00, Child: $12.00 Magazine Yard Music That Binds– Tue, June 15 & 22: 7:30 p.m. • Milliner & Mantua-maker – Sun, Mon, Tue, Fri Governor's Palace Stage Adult: $19.00, Youth: $12.00, Child: $12.00 • Prentis Field – Daily Revolutionary Points of View– Wed & Fri: 7 p.m. • Printing Office – Sun, Mon, Thu Charlton Stage Adult: $16.00, Youth: $9.00, Child: $9.00 • Public Leather Works – Sun, Mon, Wed, Thu • Silversmith – Tue, Wed, Sat • Tailor – Sun, Thu, Sat • The Public Armoury – Daily Visit the Blacksmith (Daily), Tinsmith (Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat), Wheelwright (Sun, Mon, Wed, Thu), Shoemaker For more information and (Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat), Foodways (Fri in the Kitchen). updates about today’s events, • Weavers at Work – Tue, Wed, Thu, Sat scan this QR code. • Wigmaker – Mon, Wed, Thu .
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  • “Lafayette in Williamsburg” (Walking Tour)

    “Lafayette in Williamsburg” (Walking Tour)

    Other Sites to Visit • African American Religion exhibit– Explore the religious heritage of Africans and their Virginia descendants. Lafayette in • American Indian Interpretation– Explore the diverse cultures of Native peoples striving to preserve their traditional way of life and learn about the roles they played in creating a new country. Williamsburg • Apothecary – Learn how medicine, wellness, and surgical practices of the 18th century compare to today. • Cabinetmaker & Harpsichord Maker – Watch expert woodworkers fashion the intricate details of luxury products with period hand tools. AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LAFAYETTE • Capitol – Take a guided tour of the first floor entering through the Courtroom and exiting through the House of Burgesses. Annual Meeting 2021 June 13, 2021 • Carpenter’s Yard – Discover how the carpenters use hand tools to transform trees into lumber and lumber into buildings. • Courthouse – Experience justice in the 18th century in an original building. • Gunsmith – See how rifles, pistols, and fowling pieces are made using the tools and techniques of the 18th-century. • Joinery – Watch our experts use saws, planes, hammers, and other tools to fashion wood into the pieces of a future building. • Milliner & Mantua-maker – Shop for latest hats, headwear, ornaments, and accessories. Watch as old gowns are updated to the newest 18th-century fashion. • Tailor – Touch and feel the many different sorts of fabrics and garments that clothed colonial Americans, from elegant suits in the latest London styles to the sturdy uniforms of Revolutionary soldiers. • Public Leather Works – Discover how workman cut, mold, and stitch leather and heavy textiles. • Printing Office & Bindery – Watch and learn as printers set type and use reproduction printing presses to manufacture colonial newspapers, political notices, pamphlets, and books.
  • Williamsburg Reserve Collection Celebrating the Orgin of American Style

    Williamsburg Reserve Collection Celebrating the Orgin of American Style

    “So that the future may learn from the past.” — John d. rockefeller, Jr. 108 williamsburg reserve collection Celebrating the Orgin of American Style. 131109 colonial williamsburg Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg, the capital of the colony of Virginia, owed its inception to politics, its design to human ingenuity, and its prosperity to government, commerce and war. Though never larger in size than a small English country town, Virginia’s metropolis became Virginia’s center of imperial rule, transatlantic trade, enlightened ideas and genteel fashion. Williamsburg served the populace of the surrounding colonies as a marketplace for goods and services, as a legal, administrative and religious center, and as a resort for shopping,information and diversion. But the capital was also a complex urban community with its own patterns of work, family life and cultural activities. Within Williamsburg’s year round populations, a rich tapestry of personal, familial, work, social, racial, gender and cultural relationships could be found. In Williamsburg patriots such as Patrick Henry protested parliamentary taxation by asserting their right as freeborn Englishmen to be taxed only by representatives of their own choosing. When British authorities reasserted their parliamentary sovereign right to tax the King’s subjects wherever they reside, Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, James Madison, George Washington and other Virginians claimed their right to govern themselves by virtue of their honesty and the logic of common sense. Many other Americans joined these Virginians in defending their countrymen’s liberties against what they came to regard as British tyranny. They fought for and won their independence. And they then fashioned governments and institutions of self-rule, many of which guide our lives today.
  • New Membership Program Offers Value and Supports the Growing Art

    New Membership Program Offers Value and Supports the Growing Art

    The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation P.O. Box 1776 Williamsburg, Va. 23187-1776 www.colonialwilliamsburg.com New Membership Program Offers Value and Supports the Growing Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg Individual and family memberships offer value and benefits and support the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum “Dude,” tobacconist figure ca. 1880, museum purchase, Winthrop Rockefeller, part of the exhibition “Sidewalks to Rooftops: Outdoor Folk Art” at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum; rendering of the South Nassau Street entrance to the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg; “Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I”, artist unidentified, 1590-1600, gift of Preston Davie, part of the exhibition “British Masterworks: Ninety Years of Collecting at Colonial Williamsburg,” opening Feb. 15 at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum. WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (Feb. 5, 2019) –Colonial Williamsburg offers a new opportunity to enjoy and support its world-class art museums, the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, with annual individual and family memberships that provide guest benefits and advance both institutions’ exhibition and interpretation of America’s shared history. The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, which showcases the best in British and American fine and decorative arts from 1670-1840, and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, home to the nation’s premier collection of American folk art, remain open during their donor-funded, $41.7-million expansion, which broke ground in 2017 and is scheduled for completion this year. Once completed, the expansion will add 65,000 square feet with a 22- percent increase in exhibition space as well as a new visitor-friendly entrance on Nassau Street.
  • Nomination Form

    Nomination Form

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  • Natioflb! HISTORIC LANDMARKS Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT of the INTERIOR ^^TAT"E (Rev

    Natioflb! HISTORIC LANDMARKS Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT of the INTERIOR ^^TAT"E (Rev

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  • Regional Map

    Regional Map

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  • Tuesday, April 25, 2017 10 A.M. to 5 P.M

    Tuesday, April 25, 2017 10 A.M. to 5 P.M

    224 Tuesday, April 25, 2017 Williamsburg10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Photo courtesy of Nina Mustard Homes on this nine-property tour span in age from the beginning of the 18th century to a 21st century Colonial Revival. All are conveniently concentrated in two neighborhoods located near each other. Visitors will appreciate interiors that sparkle with floral designs by the Williamsburg Garden Club complementing spectacular antiques and artwork. Not to be outdone, the gardens of featured properties are prime examples of 18th century to current landscaping styles and include a city farm garden, shade gardens, a school garden, as well as formal and cottage gardens that represent the Williamsburg style. This year’s tour features five private properties in the College Terrace neighborhood that are opened for the first time for Historic Garden Week in addition to Historic Area properties and gardens - a full day of touring with 11 sites total. Start at the William and Mary Alumni house, which serves as tour headquarters, and walk or use the tour shuttle, included in the ticket. Enjoy lunch at the many establishments in Merchant’s Square and Colonial Williamsburg. Hosted by The Williamsburg Garden Club Chairmen Tickets: $50 pp. Cash/Check/Credit Card Dollie Marshall and Linda Wenger accepted at the following locations. Tick- [email protected] ets available at the Colonial Williamsburg Visitors Center on Monday, April 24, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Tuesday, April 25, 9 Advance and Tour Bus Ticket Sales Chairman a.m. until noon. Tickets are also available on tour day beginning at 9:30 a.m.
  • Colonial Williamsburg to Resume Limited Onsite Programming June 14

    Colonial Williamsburg to Resume Limited Onsite Programming June 14

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  • NOMINATION FORM for NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER Dal"E

    NOMINATION FORM for NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER Dal"E

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  • WILLIAMSBURG GARDEN CLUB Williamsburg 93

    WILLIAMSBURG GARDEN CLUB Williamsburg 93

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  • Black History Month 2019: Special Exhibition; Featured Programs Mark 40 Years of African-American Interpretation

    Black History Month 2019: Special Exhibition; Featured Programs Mark 40 Years of African-American Interpretation

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  • Learning from Yesterday . . . TODAY: a Day Trip

    Learning from Yesterday . . . TODAY: a Day Trip

    Learning from Yesterday . TODAY A Day Trip into History Department of Education Outreach Department of School and Youth Group Tours 2 INTRODUCTION A class field trip should be more than a day away from the classroom! It is an opportunity for an educational experience that complements the regular course of study, and it is imperative that teachers plan and implement activities that create worthwhile learning experiences for their students. The best way to accomplish this goal is to adopt a three-part strategy: careful preparation beforehand; meaningful exercises to engage students while at the site; and a thorough debriefing after returning to the classroom. This guide is designed to assist teachers who are planning a field trip to, but may lack background knowledge or familiarity with, Colonial Williamsburg. It is also meant to suggest new approaches for educators who have made a visit to Colonial Williamsburg part of their students’ instruction for many years. There are more ideas than can be used for a single trip, but all are provided so teachers can select those that best meet their instructional objectives and student needs. In addition to specific sample lessons, extra material has been provided at the end of each section that can be further developed into lessons. Some lessons overlap in subject matter, but offer alternative strategies or target different skills. Each lesson can be adjusted according to grade level and the time available to the teacher. This guide is intended to make a trip to Colonial Williamsburg a more enjoyable and worthwhile learning venture for all involved. Section 1: BEFORE THE VISIT – Set the Stage for Learning Sample Lessons and Additional Lesson/Activity Suggestions Teachers set forth the objectives for the visit and provide opportunities to gather needed background information for students to understand the purpose of the field trip.