One Dollar Admission returns to Hagley Sundays in February and March 2013

CONTACT: Meg Marcozzi, Hagley Museum and Library Marketing Manager

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

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One Dollar Admission returns to Hagley Sundays in February and March 2013

            Wilmington, Delaware – February and March 2013 - Enjoy the picturesque winter landscape along the Brandywine at Hagley Museum and Library for $1 every Sunday in February and March 2013 (excludes Easter Sunday, March 31). Experience the warmth of the Steam Engine house and industrial ambiance of the Machine Shop, tour Eleutherian Mills, and dine at the Belin House Organic Café. One dollar admission gives visitors 235-acres to explore. Use Hagley’s main entrance off Route 141 in Wilmington, Delaware.

Eleutherian Mills

            A tour of Eleutherian Mills, the first du Pont family home built in America, reveals the stories of five generations of du Pont family members, from E. I. du Pont, founder of the DuPont Company, to Louise du Pont Crowninshield, his great-granddaughter. Tours of the residence are guided and run every half hour from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Powder Yard

            Walk through remains of the original DuPont gunpowder mills on a self-guided tour or stop to watch demonstrations of nineteenth-century equipment.

Belin House Organic Café

            The Café will feature $1 hot dogs and blueberry lemonade every Sunday in February and March. It will also serve a seasonal menu.

Family Activities

            Children and their parents will enjoy the exhibit “DuPont Science and Discovery.” Gaze at polymers under a microscope, peer through a space suit, or pose for a picture in Jeff Gordon’s #24 DuPont NASCAR. Take a short walk by the Brandywine to the “Easy Does It!” exhibit where kids can lift their parents on a platform and move a wheelbarrow with a fifty pound weight using simple machines.

            Hagley Museum and Library collects, preserves, and interprets the unfolding history of American enterprise. The museum is located off Route 141 in Wilmington, Delaware. Call (302) 658-2400 weekdays for more information or visit www.hagley.org.

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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

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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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