Name: Good To Great Presentations
Start: 2024-05-06T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-05-06T13:45:00-04:00
Location: Hennage Auditorium in the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg

Good To Great Presentations

May 6 @ 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm

May 3: Works by Black Artists an

Every object in the Art Museum’s collection has an interesting back story that you may never learn with out attending one of these interesting presentations that are part of your admission. During the presentation you will discover who created the object, who owned it, and how it ended up in the Colonial Williamsburg Collection. Each week an object will be explored by a curator, conservator, educator, archaeologist, or historian. This is another way they bring history to life! Here is the upcoming schedule

May 6: Material Culture and the Public Hospital – Margaret Perry & E. Katherine Hargrove
May 13: An Archaeological Discovery from the Williamsburg Powder Magazine – Eric Schweickart
May 20: The Excavation of a Rare Bleu Persan Flower Urn – Kate McEnroe
May 27: Material Culture and the Public Hospital – Margaret Perry & E. Katherine Hargrove
June 3: Conserving Firearms from the Magazine – Isabelle Lobley
June 10: New Research in Paintings – Laura Barry
June 24: Archaeological Collections Highlight – Sean Devlin
July 1: Hull & Sanderson: Silver – Erik Goldstein
July 8: Faces of Williamsburg: Portraits from the Colonial Capitol – Kate Rogers
July 15: Tally Ho! Conservation of a Child’s Riding Toy from 1880 – Aliza Taft
July 22: Treating Two Large Glass Vessels – Charlotte Li & Katie Linder
July 29: Conservation of an 18th-C. Wall Gun – Tina Gessler
August 19: Costume Mounting and Display – Jackie Peterson-Grace
August 26: Archaeological Collections Highlights – Sean Devlin

These presentations are in the Hennage Auditorium and require either museum admission, a Good Neighbor Pass or an Annual Pass. The Hennage Auditorium is on the ground floor of the Art Museum of Colonial Williamsburg Schedule of programs can change. More Event Info