Events & Exhibitions

Join us for a week of exploration, creativity and fun! Darien’s history will come alive for campers in a relaxing environment, while they create several engaging projects after exploring our museum and exhibitions.

Toast to the summer with Darien Library. Join us for music, mingling, and refreshments. Kick off your weekend with Cocktails in the Courtyard! Swing by and unwind after your workweek. Bring a friend and meet new people. As you mingle, enjoy music by Rob Silvan.

The Silhouette Lady returns to Museum of Darien at Open House event, Sunday, May 1st. Appointments are required and available from 10am-4pm to have children’s silhouettes created by The Silhouette Lady.

Lecture by Amy Kurtz Lansing, Curator Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT Kurtz Lansing will offer an overview of the artist colonies along the Connecticut coast.

Most people are familiar with Central Park's celebrated design by Frederick Laaw Olmsted and his co-designer Calvert Vaux, but few know the history of that landscape before Olmsted got his position in 1857 as superintendent.

Learn about forensic archaeology with a former state archaeologist! Discover how evidence is located at crime scenes with archaeological methods to solve legal cases.

Tour the Merritt Parkaway as a trail to visit the region's public libraries, among our greatest and most distinguished architectural treasures.

As the Impressionist movement took hold in the United States, artists flocked to Connecticut for inspiration. Join us as we celebrate the opening of a major exhibition featuring dozens of works by American Impressionists who called Connecticut home.

Nestled in the heart of Delaware's beautiful Brandywine Valley, Winterthur is an extraordinary museum, garden, and library. Tour through the unparalleled collection of American decorative arts on display throughout the magnificent 175-room house.

Who and where were the communities that drew Black New Yorkers to Lower Manhattan and how did they resist the racism that they faced? Hear the Tenement Museum highlight stories of how Black and African Americans shaped the Lower East Side as they made homes, started businesses, and formed communities.