Featured Events

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. Bring a picnic or pre-order from Caffe Gelato. 

Hagley’s 2020 Fireworks Shows Canceled

Spend a Summer Saturday at Hagley and relax while fishing on the Brandywine.

Roger Horowitz interviews Ai Hisano about her recent book, Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat.

Launch stomp rockets and create your own balloon pinwheels that demonstrate Newton’s Third Law of equal and opposite reactions! 

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

Roger Horowitz interviews Laura Phillips Sawyer about her recent book, American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition,' 1890–1940 (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Sawyer, an associate professor at Georgia State University, used the Chamber of Commerce of the United States collection at Hagley in her research.

Learn how living things get their unique traits and discover what strawberry DNA looks like with out a microscope! Visitors of all ages are invited to discover solutions to science and engineering challenges at Science Saturday. 

Join one of our Hagley guides for an introductory tour of Hagley’s patent model collection.

CANCELED - Experience the wonders of automotive innovation. Browse through more than 500 antique and restored cars that date from the early 1990s all the way back to the early twentieth century. This year’s theme is “Dream Rides: American Sports Cars.” The show features vehicle parades, motoring music, video and pedal car racing, and food court. 

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. The 3-mile roundtrip walk to the du Pont ancestral home and back will be open for guests to wander and enjoy the beauty of the property.

Sound is produced by vibrations.  Create a musical instrument that will vibrate to make sound. Visitors of all ages are invited to discover solutions to science and engineering challenges at Science Saturday. 

Dr. Kevin Tennent discusses his recent research at Hagley, funded by one of our grants. Dr. Tennent, Senior Lecturer at the University of York School of Management, used Hagley materials in his research on American industrial democracy between 1913 and 1935.

Learn how batteries and circuits power our world and make a buzzing Monster Bot! Visitors of all ages are invited to discover solutions to science and engineering challenges at Science Saturday. Experiment with different tree leaves to discover their hidden colors 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.

Held in two of Hagley’s historic buildings, this marketplace brings talented artisans from the Mid-Atlantic area to display and sell fine arts, crafts, and gourmet items. This premier show will feature works in wood, pottery, jewelry, fibers, metal, and other media and includes a specialty outdoor food market.

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. Photography beginners or experts will enjoy this experience. Ability to walk some distance and carry your own equipment is necessary. 

Optical illusions and tricks of the mind will have you guessing what's real! Test out your perception and make a spinning disc picture.  Visitors of all ages are invited to discover solutions to science and engineering challenges at Science Saturday. Optical illusions and tricks of the mind will have you guessing what's real! Test out your perception and make a spinning disc picture. 

Invisible magnetic fields can be used in so many ways.  Build a magnet toy and tinker with the force! Visitors of all ages are invited to discover solutions to science and engineering challenges at Science Saturday. 

Free admission for current military members, veterans, and their families.

Experience the du Pont ancestral home decorated for the holidays and the “Holiday Entertaining” exhibition. 

On Saturday, December 5, Bring the kids to take photos with Santa!

Discover how thermal energy is transferred and create your own insulated bottle.

Enjoy a rare opportunity to see Eleutherian Mills, the first du Pont family home built in America, dressed for the holidays and illuminated with softly glowing lights.