Let Hagley’s Valentine’s Day Celebration Warm Your Heart

CONTACT: Meg Marcozzi, Hagley Museum and Library Marketing Manager

                         (302) 658-2400, ext. 238    mmarcozzi@hagley.org

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Let Hagley’s Valentine’s Day Celebration Warm Your Heart

                Wilmington, Delaware – February 2013 – Bring your loved ones to Hagley Museum and Library for Victorine’s Valentine’s Day on Saturday, February 9, 12:30 to 4 p.m. Families can enjoy making Valentine’s Day cards, decorating candy bar wrappers, and snacking on hot chocolate and gingerbread hearts. Activities are included in the cost of admission. Use main museum entrance off Route 141.

                Share the love! Discover how Valentine’s Day was celebrated in the past by viewing a display of antique Valentine’s Day cards and chocolate-themed treasures from Hagley’s collection. Tap your inner-artist and create a valentine for your special someone. Make a second valentine for someone living in a local nursing home to show that he/she is remembered.

                Get sweet, eat sweets! In the Gibbons House, learn how food was cooked and how families lived in the nineteenth century. Taste gingerbread hearts baked in the wood stove. Warm up with a cup of hot chocolate decorated with fixings from our Hot Chocolate Bar. For a gourmet treat, stop in the Belin House Organic Café and try a selection of $1 desserts.

Cherish your love! Honor the memory of Victorine du Pont Bauduy, the eldest daughter of the DuPont Company’s founder, who spent time as superintendent of the Brandywine Manufacturers’ Sunday School during the nineteenth century, by writing Valentine verses with a quill pen. Victorine lost the love of her life only ten weeks after her marriage, but she found love again in her passion for teaching. In the Brandywine Manufacturers’ Sunday School, visitors can experience what school was like in the nineteenth century.

Hagley Museum and Library collects, preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American enterprise. The museum is located on Route 141 in Wilmington, Delaware. Admission to the entire 235-acre museum is $14 for adults, $10 for students and senior citizens, $5 for children six to fourteen, and free for members and children five and under. Call (302) 658-2400 weekdays for more information or visit www.hagley.org.

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