| The Hagley Museum and Library is located at 298 | | | | to 4:00 p.m. |
| Buck Road East, Wilmington, Delaware 19807 with a | | | | January 2, 2008 through March 14, 2008 closed |
| telephone number of 302-658-2400. | | | | Under new management of Fleur de Lis, the Berlin |
| The Hagley Museum and Library sits on 235 | | | | House Restaurant will resume regular daily hours on |
| picturesque acres along the Brandywine River. Hagley | | | | Saturday, March 15, 2008. |
| is home to the DuPont Company. The park-like | | | | Admission Prices |
| museum resembles the home and work life of a 19th | | | | Adults - $11 |
| century industrial community. Visitors have the | | | | Students and senior citizens - $9 |
| opportunity to ride along the Brandywine River to tour | | | | Children under six - Free |
| the first DuPont family home in America, and | | | | Groups welcome year-round by reservation. Call |
| participate in a mid-nineteenth-century school day. | | | | weekdays for information - 302-658-2400, ext. 259 |
| Period machines powered by water and steam are | | | | Exhibits include:o DuPont Science and Discovery: |
| visible as you stroll through a formal French garden. | | | | Offers visitors a look at 200 years of DuPont |
| The first office of the DuPont Company and a barn | | | | Company historyo DuPont: The Explosives Era: Details |
| filled with antique vehicles that include an early | | | | the DuPont family's decision to come to America, |
| nineteenth-century Conestoga wagon is on site here. | | | | choice of a site for the black powder manufactory, |
| Learn about the intricacies of making gunpowder, | | | | early years of the company, concentrated exploration |
| DuPont's original product. A key step in the gunpowder | | | | of the role of explosives in nineteenth- and |
| production process is the Brandywine River's falling | | | | early-twentieth-century life.o Eleutherian Mills: First |
| water turning a sixteen ton iron wheel to mix the | | | | DuPont Family home in America built in 1803, sits on the |
| ingredients. | | | | crest of a hill, a charming Georgian-style residence |
| In the fall season, Hagley offers visitors a charming | | | | furnished with antiques and memorabilia of the five |
| journey back to the nineteenth century in a setting of | | | | generations of DuPonts associated with the home, has |
| natural splendor. There is a special magic in the air as | | | | an adjoining, restored French-style garden created by |
| you enjoy the seemingly endless array of nature's | | | | E.l. DuPont, who was an avid botanist. Near this |
| colors, a meandering river and the sound of honking | | | | residence are two other exhibits, the First Office and |
| resident Canada geese. | | | | the Barno Easy Does It! How Machines Make Life |
| The spring season is full of blossoming trees and | | | | Easier: A colorful, interactive exhibit featuring hands-on |
| flowers as the river winds its way through the original | | | | fun for education and adventure. Includes wheels and |
| DuPont black powder manufacturing, estate, and | | | | axles, levers, gears, and pulleys, Lift It platform, rack |
| gardens. There are wildflowers, azaleas, dogwoods, | | | | and pinion steering mechanism, a bicycle, simple |
| daffodils and Canada geese. | | | | machines from work and home that include a |
| Christmas at Hagley features a heated bus to | | | | wheelbarrow, the whirring of an eggbeater, and the |
| transport groups back to a nineteenth-century style | | | | power of a line shaft. This exhibit is open only on |
| holiday celebration. Holiday decorations include nature's | | | | weekends.o Hagley Powder Yard: Massive stone mills, |
| bounty complemented by toys and ornaments from | | | | storehouses, a waterwheel to recall the time when |
| both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. | | | | waterpower was the source of energy. The exhibits |
| The Hagley Museum and Library is an example of | | | | and working models tell the history of the economic |
| early American industry that includes restored mills, a | | | | and technological expansion of the Brandywine region |
| workers community, and the ancestral home and | | | | and the nation. Powdermen and machinists |
| gardens of the DuPont family. | | | | demonstrate a water turbine, a steam engine, a |
| The library furthers the study of business and | | | | powder tester, and a working machine shop.o |
| technology in America, especially the Middle Atlantic | | | | Workers' Hill: Focuses on the social and family history |
| region. Collections include individuals' papers and | | | | of the workers who operate the powder mills. |
| companies' records ranging from eighteenth-century | | | | For more information about the different kinds of tours |
| merchants to modern telecommunications and illustrate | | | | offered at the Hagley Museum and Library in |
| the impact of the business system on society. | | | | Wilmington, Delaware, visit them online or call |
| Museum Hours:o Regular Hours - now through January | | | | 302-658-2400, ext. 203 |
| 1, 2008: Open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.o Winter | | | | Rental of Facilities |
| Hours - January 2, 2008 through March 14, 2008. Open | | | | The facilities of the Hagley Museum and Library are |
| weekdays for one guided tour at 1:30 p.m. Open | | | | available for use by community groups and |
| weekends 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.o Closed Thanksgiving | | | | organizations. Contact them at 302-658-2400, ext. 203 |
| Day and Christmas Day | | | | or visit them online for more information. |
| The Belin House Restaurant Hours: | | | | Source: The Hagley Museum and Library Online |
| Open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. through | | | | Important Disclaimer: The URL address in the resource |
| December 1, 2007, closed on Thanksgiving Day. | | | | box of this article is not associated with any of the |
| December 1-24, 2007, closed Monday through Friday, | | | | attractions mentioned in this article. This article and the |
| Open weekends 11:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. December 15, | | | | web site are offered as a resource for formulating |
| 2007 closed | | | | vacation ideas. |
| December 26, 2007 to January 1, 2008 Open 11:30 a.m. | | | | This article is FREE to publish with the resource box. |