General Information

• Hagley Museum is open every day of the year with the exception of Thanksgiving and Christmas. Tours are offered daily from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

• Free motorcoach parking is available on the premises.

• All tours require a minimum of fifteen participants.

• Two complimentary admissions are given with fifteen paying participants.

Machine Shop Demonstration • Tour operators may call for tiered pricing. group tours at hagley

• Group Tour Lunch payments are due two weeks in advance. Payments for tours themselves are due on the day of the tour. No advance deposit is required. Powder Yard Tour The DuPont Company manufactured gunpowder and blasting powder at Hagley from 1802 until 1921. This outdoor All group tour and group lunch reservations must be walking tour explores how the process of making gunpowder made in advance by contacting the Hagley Tour Office at developed and changed over the years. You will learn the (302) 658-2400, ext. 259, or [email protected]. steps involved in making the powder as well as the history of the Hagley Powder Yard. You will also see a gunpowder demonstration, a waterwheel at the Birkenhead Mills, and an operating steam engine. • $7 - two hours - fifteen to forty-six people Christmas at Hagley • Guided walking tour • Offered April 1 to October 31

Other Tour Options

Does your group have a special interest? Whether it’s gardening, science, needlework, or history, we will be happy to customize a tour to fit the special interests of your group or organization. Call the tour office for more information.

Group Tour Meal Options Group Tour meals are served in a historic building on Hagley’s property. The meal may be before or after your tour of Hagley. All meals are by reservation only, and early reservations are suggested. Continental breakfast, light to hearty lunches, and an afternoon tea are available options. Please call the tour office or visit www.hagley.org for menus. • $11 to $17 per person – twenty-person minimum Groups with fewer than twenty may eat at the Belin House

Restaurant. Reservations required, contact the tour office.

2008 05 1M Route 141 • Wilmington, Delaware • (302) 658-2400 • www.hagley.org Brandywine Tour Eleutherian Mills, the du Pont family home This tour visits Eleutherian Mills, the original (1803) home to five generations of the du Pont family, with its restored nineteenth-century French-style garden and the First Office of the DuPont Company. A second stop is made at either the Powder Yard, where demonstrations show the harnessing of water power, or the Visitor Center, where models and exhibits describe early industry along the Brandywine and the development of the DuPont Company. • $8 per person – two hours – fifteen-person minimum • Includes guide and bus transportation • Offered year-round*

Extended Brandywine Tour This tour serves the needs of adult groups who wish to spend a longer time at Hagley and to enjoy more fully the many points of interest throughout the property. The tour includes the Visitor Center; Powder Yard; Machine Shop; Workers’ Hill; the du Pont family home, barn, and garden; and the First Office of the DuPont Company. The group will tour for approximately two hours and then stop for a one-hour lunch break. Lunch may be either a Group Tour Lunch (additional cost) or a picnic lunch (provided by your group). Touring Gardens and Grounds Tour resumes after the lunch break. Hagley’s Craft Fair This tour highlights Hagley’s beautiful grounds. Your guide • $13 per person – five hours – fifteen-person minimum discusses the history of the gardens that E. I. du Pont planted • Includes guide and bus transportation on his property in the early nineteenth century. Enjoy a • Offered year-round* ride along the Brandywine River, with special attention to Hagley Museum and Library *Join us during the holiday season, the day after Thanksgiving landscape points of interest along the way. The tour includes a is where the du Pont story begins. through January 1, when Eleutherian Mills is wonderfully visit to the restored nineteenth-century French-style garden as It was here that E. I. du Pont decorated for the holidays. well as the Eleutherian Mills residence. created his gunpowder works in • $8 per person – two hours – fifteen-person minimum 1802 which led to a lasting legacy • Guide and bus transportation included throughout the Brandywine region. • Offered March 15 through October 31

Our scenic 235-acre campus Holiday Shopping Tour stretches along the banks of the Bring your group for a day at our annual craft fair on the third Brandywine River. See the first weekend of October. Enjoy a one-hour tour of the Eleutherian family residence, walk through Mills residence before exploring the many offerings of the the original mills of the DuPont artisans’ marketplace. Held in two buildings on our historic Company, and listen to the stories about the people who lived grounds, this annual event showcases the work of fifty and worked along the river. talented crafters. You will find jewelry, handbags, hand-carved wood items, artwork, pottery, hand-woven scarves, and much We invite you to explore the beginning of the du Pont heritage more. Please call the tour office (302-658-2400, ext. 259) for the before venturing on to the estates and gardens of later family dates of the craft fair. generations. We offer five tour packages with a variety of ways • $9 per person – fifteen to forty-six people to experience Hagley. • Includes walking tour and admission to the craft fair The Brandywine’s Most Beautiful Mile • Offered the third weekend of October (call for dates)