Farms Afield: Delaware's Brandywine Valley will be hosted by Executive Director Vonda Givens and Director of Collections and Preservation, Jonathan Clancy.

Experience Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library (pictured above): Nestled in the rolling hills of the Brandywine Valley, Winterthur estate, with its 60-acre naturalistic garden, is the premier museum of American decorative arts, with an unparalleled collection of nearly 90,000 objects made or used in America since 1640. The collection is displayed in the magnificent 175-room house, much as it was when the family of founder Henry Francis du Pont called it home. Winterthur Library’s extensive collection of rare books and manuscripts includes Gustav Stickley’s business records. Our full-day experience at the Winterthur estate, planned especially for the Stickley Museum’s group, includes a visit to the garden, guided tours of the home and its collections, and a tour of the library. Our library tour will be led by a Winterthur librarian, who will share fascinating materials from their Stickley and Arts and Crafts archives. Our experience will include time for self-guided exploration at the end of the day.

Tour The Delaware Art Museum with Dr. Sophie Lynford (pictured below): The Delaware Art Museum boasts the most comprehensive collection of British Pre-Raphaelite art in the United States. This fall, the museum will present "The Rosettis," a major international loan exhibition organized in partnership with the Tate Britain. It will be the only museum in the United States to host this exhibition after it closes in London. The exhibition features the art of the Rossettis, the family that includes Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (a detail of a Dante Gabriel Rosetti painting is pictured above), his wife, Elizabeth Siddal, and siblings, Christina, Maria, and William Michael Rossetti. The Pre-Raphaelites inspired generations of artists to blend realism with medieval revivalism, and the poets, writers, and painters of this prodigiously artistic family blended their passion for social justice with their commitment to reforming outdated academic artistic traditions. Our group will be treated to two Curator’s Tours with Dr. Sophie Lynford, the Annette Woolard-Provine Curator of the Bancroft Collection. Lynford will guide our group through the museum's Pre-Raphaelite collection and the special Rossettis exhibition.