Museums in Brandywine Valley 13
Art, history, science, and children's museums.
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Brandywine Museum of Art
Three generations of Wyeth family art in a converted 19th-century grist mill on the Brandywine River, surrounded by native-plant gardens.
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Delaware Art Museum
Pre-Raphaelite paintings, American illustration by Howard Pyle and his students, and a sculpture garden.
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Tyler Arboretum
One of the oldest arboretums in the Northeast, with venerable trees, wildflower meadows and miles of woodland trails.
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Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
Henry Francis du Pont's country estate, with a celebrated museum of American decorative arts and a naturalistic garden planned to bloom in waves from spring to fall.
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Delaware Museum of Nature and Science
A natural history museum for families in Greenville, with dinosaurs, seashells and hands-on discovery rooms.
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New Castle Historical Society
Historic houses in Old New Castle, Delaware's colonial capital, where William Penn first landed in America in 1682.
