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Future Exhibits
at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
Changing Keys: Keyboard Instruments for America 1700-1830
This exhibition will explore the evolution of spinets, harpsichords and pianos in the eighteenth century. Featuring over 25 instruments including spinets, harpsichords, and pianos, ranging in date from 1700 to 1830, the instruments are drawn from Colonial Williamsburg’s significant collection of English keyboards. Many have never been exhibited before. Keyboard instruments were an integral part of the cultural milieu of Virginia’s colonial and post-colonial period. The second known public performance on a piano in America took place at the Raleigh Tavern. The exhibit explores the differences in the various types of keyboards as well as the evolution of the instrument over time. Two reproductions are included so that they can be played for visitors, for what is an instrument without its sound? Models of detailed aspects of the keyboard allow visitors further insight into the workings of the instruments. Opening November 22, 2012 through September 7, 2014
Opens Thursday, November 22, 2012
Painters and Paintings in the American South
A ground-breaking exhibition that brings together paintings by artists working in the eighteenth-century South and those produced abroad for southern patrons. Opening March 23, 2013.
Historic Triangle
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