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Spend a Summer Saturday at Hagley and relax with fun outdoor activities.

Dig into two very different gardens – one fed the du Pont family and the other DuPont Company workers in the nineteenth century. This tour explores the socioeconomic factors influencing the architecture, produce, and the philosophies of each garden. 

Hagley is offering two weeks of summer camp activities.  Camp provide a fun, hands-on environment in which to learn and make new friends.

Hagley is delighted to offer exclusive yoga classes with teacher Mary Currie for our members at the Household and above levels. Classes are held Tuesday and Thursday mornings.

Join us for Bike & Hike & Brews! Stroll, jog, or bike through the most beautiful mile of the Brandywine. 

Spend a Summer Saturday at Hagley and relax with fun outdoor activities.

Visitors will experience in-depth the devastating power of black powder while exploring the heart of the DuPont production yards. 

Don’t miss Delaware’s best fireworks show! 

Use an egg to demonstrate the principles of motion, showing Newton's laws in full force.

Spend a Summer Saturday at Hagley and relax with fun outdoor activities.

Visitors explore the geology of the Brandywine Valley and its impact on the milling industry.

Don’t miss Delaware’s best fireworks show! 

Spend a Summer Saturday at Hagley and relax with fun outdoor activities.

Visitors experience an in-depth, hands-on tour focused on gunpowder production in the Hagley Powder Yard and visit production areas rarely seen by guests. This tour ends with an explosive finish. 

Marcia Chatelain explores how fast food restaurants saturated black neighborhoods and became, as well, a focal point in the development of “black capitalism.”

Learn about buoyancy, density, and how boats stay afloat! Build your own boat and test how much cargo it can hold!

Spend a Summer Saturday at Hagley and relax with fun outdoor activities.

In the H2 Oh! walking tour, visitors discover the evolution of waterpower at Hagley.

Have a blast during your visit to Hagley with cannon firings in the Hagley Powder Yard!

Discover the fascinating stories of the immigrant workers who lived along the Brandywine and worked for the DuPont Company in the black powder manufactory.

Explore the properties of light and find out how light can bend and bounce. Don't let your eyes fool you!

Experience the wonders of automotive innovation at Hagley's Car Show.

Learn how living things get their unique traits and discover what strawberry DNA looks like with out a microscope! 

Have a blast during your visit to Hagley with cannon firings in the Hagley Powder Yard!

Take a Sunday stroll at Hagley! Hagley’s property will be open to give visitors a unique opportunity to take a leisurely walk to the residence and garden, normally only accessible by bus.

Take a Sunday stroll at Hagley! Hagley’s property will be open to give visitors a unique opportunity to take a leisurely walk to the residence and garden, normally only accessible by bus.

Katina Manko will lead off the fall series with a talk based on her just-published book, Ding Dong! Avon Calling! The Women and Men of Avon Products, Incorporated. 

Find the hidden colors in markers and leaves by separating their pigments using chromatography.

Families can take a hayride along the Brandywine to experience the beautiful fall foliage in the Powder Yard. Guests can create fall-themed crafts, and see a gunpowder explosion, roll mill in action, and working nineteenth-century machines.

Families can take a hayride along the Brandywine to experience the beautiful fall foliage in the Powder Yard. Guests can create fall-themed crafts, and see a gunpowder explosion, roll mill in action, and working nineteenth-century machines.

This marketplace brings talented artisans from the Mid-Atlantic area to display and sell fine arts, crafts, and gourmet items.

Families can take a hayride along the Brandywine to experience the beautiful fall foliage in the Powder Yard. Guests can create fall-themed crafts, and see a gunpowder explosion, roll mill in action, and working nineteenth-century machines.

Families can take a hayride along the Brandywine to experience the beautiful fall foliage in the Powder Yard. Guests can create fall-themed crafts, and see a gunpowder explosion, roll mill in action, and working nineteenth-century machines.

Learn how batteries and circuits power our world and make a buzzing Monster Bot! 

Families can take a hayride along the Brandywine to experience the beautiful fall foliage in the Powder Yard. Guests can create fall-themed crafts, and see a gunpowder explosion, roll mill in action, and working nineteenth-century machines.

Families can take a hayride along the Brandywine to experience the beautiful fall foliage in the Powder Yard. Guests can create fall-themed crafts, and see a gunpowder explosion, roll mill in action, and working nineteenth-century machines.

Visitors can take advantage of this unique opportunity to see the grounds of Hagley in a different light and meet one of our guides for a stroll through the property.

Looking for a safe place to trick or treat this Halloween? Head to Hagley for spooktacular activities!

Looking for a safe place to trick or treat this Halloween? Head to Hagley for spooktacular activities!

Have a blast during your visit to Hagley with cannon firings in the Hagley Powder Yard!

Have a blast during your visit to Hagley with cannon firings in the Hagley Powder Yard!

Create "fabric" out of plastic grocery bags and find a new use for it.

Wendy Woloson will close the fall series with a talk based on her book, Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America.

Employ the principles of drag and lift to make a satellite that floats at just the right height above "Earth." How high can you make it fly?