Join Hammond-Harwood House for their annual Pumpkin Walk! Celebrate the spooky season with games, crafts, snacks, storytelling, face painting, and a costume parade around the Hammond-Harwood House mansion. This event will also feature a brief tour of the mansion to introduce children to colonial superstitions and the special architecture of the Hammond-Harwood House. Wear your […]
Night was a perilous time in early America as thieves, wayward travelers, and even evil spirits lurked around the corner for our early ancestors. Families engaged in a process of shutting in, barring the front door, and retreating to the inner sanctity of family life. Others chose to frequent taverns and frolic in the night, […]
Collectors’ Day 2022 features two perspectives on the artist Charles Willson Peale and collecting. Dr. Wendy Bellion, Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware, will focus on Peale himself as a curator. Art collector Stiles Tuttle Colwill will discuss how he created a collection of works by Peale and his family over the […]
The Hammond-Harwood House invites you to a Yuletide Open House. Come see the seasonal decorations presented by the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland & the Annapolis area Garden Clubs. Accompanied with music from The Renaissance Singers of Annapolis! Refreshments & Shopping in the Museum Gift Shop
Explore the Hammond-Harwood House’s collection of nine elaborate clocks from the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries. The tour begins with an in-depth history of timekeeping from sundials to Chinese water clocks. The invention of the pendulum in the 17th century modernized horological devices and a rising artisan class created clocks for elite and middle-class […]
Families are invited to the mansion for a festive morning of holiday stories and crafts. Children will enjoy story-time amidst the splendor of the ballroom decorated for the season. After the story, children will be invited to our activity classroom where they will create holiday decorations and learn about a Dutch Christmas tradition!
Participants will enjoy a 90-minute guided tour of the house that compares the customs and social graces of the Loockerman family, who lived in the Hammond-Harwood House in the early 19th century, with those of characters in Jane Austen novels.
Participants will enjoy a 90-minute guided tour of the house that compares the customs and social graces of the Loockerman family, who lived in the Hammond-Harwood House in the early 19th century, with those of characters in Jane Austen novels.
Join us for an evening of music, poetry, and merrymaking as we celebrate this annual tradition! This year’s Twelfth Night concert will feature joyous baroque duets by Monteverdi and Vivaldi along with a selection of everyone’s favorite traditional carols. The setting is the historic candlelit ballroom of the Hammond-Harwood House. Critically acclaimed sopranos Elissa Edwards […]
Join us for an afternoon of music, poetry, and merrymaking as we celebrate this annual tradition! This year’s Twelfth Night concert will feature joyous baroque duets by Monteverdi and Vivaldi along with a selection of everyone’s favorite traditional carols. The setting is the historic candlelit ballroom of the Hammond-Harwood House. Critically acclaimed sopranos Elissa Edwards […]
Hammond-Harwood House Museum and the Maryland State Archives are co-hosting a project to collect and preserve Maryland’s diverse food traditions. Do you want to learn more about the Hunt and how you can participate? Join Food Historian and Recipe Hunt Chair, Joyce White, for a virtual presentation detailing the inspiration for the Hunt and ways […]
Join us on February 5th with a demonstration with horologist Stephen Sieracki, the “Dysfunctional Clock Therapist,”. Watch as he explains some mysteries of three of our 18th and early 19th century clocks. See the clocks up close and learn about their distinctive features. Have an old or unusual clock? Bring pictures from your phone and […]
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