Exploring how design and technology allowed Edward F. Caldwell and Company to offer a variety of lighting and decorative items in order to attract business and remain competitive, this exhibition includes examples of the company’s work in many of the mansions built (or remodeled) during the era.
This exhibit analyzes the effects of early consumerism and explores the origins and impacts of household goods in the 18th and 19th centuries.
This exhibition takes a deeper dive into the context and symbolism of early portraits to better understand the transmission of ideas and their impact on people over time.
The author Erik Larson once wrote, "One of the things I've always loved is collecting telling little details."
You’ll be humming your favorite Christmas songs as you view a selection of the period rooms decorated for Christmas. Each features a different Christmas carol written in the decade the room depicts. What can the song tell us about the time period it comes from?
It’s 1781. The Revolution is over, and we are no longer colonists! We are citizens of an independent nation.
Explore the American Home! Each of these 31 period rooms looks like you’re stepping into a room from the past. You can peek into an 1810s bedroom, 1820s dining room, 1860s parlor, and many more. Compare how homes have changed over the years; which features do we still use today, and which have fallen by the wayside?
Discover what Americans saved, made, and bought to maintain a connection to the American Revolution.
This summer from May 26 – July 9, a Dunlap Broadside, as well as the two draft copies of the U.S. Constitution will be on loan at the DAR Museum from the American Independence Museum in Exeter, NH as part of our current exhibition, Remembering the American Revolution: 1776-1890.
What Our Founders Built, We Must Preserve
Learn how DAR members selflessly and tirelessly dedicated themselves to the war relief effort of World War I
Find special initiative opportunities for every interest and every budget!
