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Museum Blog

Five Big Reasons to Shop Small This Weekend

This coming weekend, as you kick off the holiday season with family and friends, you’ll be hearing a lot about November 26 – Small Business Saturday...
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The Ones That Got Away

During the course of planning Rural Modern, before there was a confirmed checklist of paintings that will appear in the exhibition, there was a wish list. Just like Christmas, while you hope to get everything on your wish list, you know inevitably you...

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Start with Art: 5 Tips to Get Toddlers to Love Museums

There is a common misconception that a museum is not a place to bring a toddler. Here at the Brandywine River Museum of Art, we want to reassure you that not only is it appropriate to bring your little one to the museum, a museum visit has many benefits.
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In the Footsteps of the Artist

Visitors to the N. C. Wyeth or Andrew Wyeth studios know just what a powerful experience it can be to stand in the place where a work of art was created. This applies not just to the artists’ studios, but to other places in the world where an artist set up an easel and...

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Celebrating August

August is a special month at the Brandywine. Our gardens are painted purple and gold with an ongoing parade of butterflies of every species. The bubbling river is filled with laughing families in canoes. Trees planted on local farms last fall are beginning to peek over their protective...

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