Since April is Religion Month and this year marks the 300th anniversary of Bruton Parish Church, we thought we’d take a closer look at how God and spirituality were critical aspects of everyday life in the colonial capital—so much so that going to church was the law! We’ll take you behind the scenes of our ongoing exhibit Faith, Community, and Change currently on display inside our Art Museums….
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Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose! Say What?
What do Thomas Jefferson, an American moose, and a French naturalist have in common? It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but it’s actually the subject of Dr. Lee Dugatkin’s book entitled Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose. Lee Dugatkin will be at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg to fill us in on this little-known story! …
Textile Symposium Tackles Question: What Makes This Uniquely American?
Colonial Williamsburg Offers to Save Iraqi Artifacts from ISIS Destruction
Members of ISIS recently took sledgehammers and other tools to ancient artifacts across Iraq not to preserve them-but to destroy them. Colonial Williamsburg is now offering to keep some of the vulnerable artifacts safe until the threat is gone.
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The Colonial Williamsburg Archives -From A to Z
Colonial Williamsburg’s Archives and Records Department is charged with preserving the history of the Foundation.
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Antique Forum Examines Southern Backcountry
By Karen Gonzalez
The word may conjure images of primitive styles and rustic furniture, but as the 67th annual Antiques Forum demonstrates, the pieces are actually quite elegant.
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Early American Dollhouses: They Just Don’t Make ’em Like They Used To!
As a little girl who grew up in the 80s, I can remember playing with my Barbie “Dream House” for hours. I would carefully place Barbie, Ken, and Skipper around the table to eat with their tiny plastic forks, then sit them on their red velvet couch to watch their make-believe television. Yep. Those were the days. So imagine how my inner child did backflips when I learned about the dollhouse exhibit inside our Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg. I just had to see it for myself. I just had to.
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Where the Future Meets the Past
Kirsten Moffitt in the Materials Analysis Lab
Museum materials analysis takes a futuristic turn with the new Conservation Analytical Lab. There, conservator Kirsten Moffit can focus the rays of an x-ray fluorescence spectrometer, an infrared micro-spectrometer and a fluorescence microscope and learn secrets spaced between an object’s molecular bonds….
Legends of a Colonial Insane Asylum
Michael Myers famously escaped Smith’s Grove Sanitarium in 1978’s Halloween, a classic horror movie I must watch annually on Halloween night. It’s a tradition I’ve continued for many years.
In 1773, the Public Hospital opened in Williamsburg. I visited the hospital and spoke with Jan Gilliam, Manager of Exhibit Planning for Colonial Williamsburg….
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