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A visit to this original house will give everyone a chance to get their "Hands on History." Children of all ages have an opportunity to try out various chores, lessons, toys, and games. Guests may enter and leave at will.

The orientation walk is designed to help guests plan their visit. Guides share the latest information on programming, dining, and shopping options. Guests get an overview of the 18th century community and learn about the restoration of Williamsburg. The experience lasts approximately 30 minutes.

Included in all Historic Area or Museum admission passes.  Tours depart every 10-15 minutes.

Children between the ages of 3 and 7 explore Benjamin Powell’s property using familiar riddles and rhymes along with bits and pieces like a stub of candle or a hank of wool. Where did we get the wool—Baa! Baa! Can they jump the candlestick like Jack? How does the Powell garden grow? After their experience children and the rest of the family can take their time and visit the main house. They may even remember some other rhymes that fit the time and place.

Please Note: This tour is designed for non-reading or early reading pre-school and kindergarten children using 18th century nursery rhymes and discovery of artifacts and activities at the Benjamin Powell property. Children will become familiar with the nursery rhymes and the artifacts associated with each rhyme and will discover these artifacts and recite the rhyme associated with them during their exploration of the Powell property. Each child will experience the feeling of finding and claiming their own little piece of Colonial Williamsburg.

Due to limited space, free reservations are required for all children and accompanying family members.

See an extensive collection of American and British antiques. See furniture, metals, ceramics, glass, paintings, prints, firearms, and textiles from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries and the Public Hospital of 1773. Attend lectures and musical performances in the Hennage Auditorium. Visit the Museum Store and the Museum Café.

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Enjoy changing exhibitions of American folk art, the colonial and contemporary artists and craftspeople who work outside the mainstream of academic art to record aspects of everyday life. Attend lectures and musical performances in the Hennage Auditorium. Visit the Museum Store and the Museum Café.

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Programs and exhibitions at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum are supported by the DeWitt Wallace Endowment Fund.

Children between the ages of 3 and 7 explore Benjamin Powell’s property using familiar riddles and rhymes along with bits and pieces like a stub of candle or a hank of wool. Where did we get the wool—Baa! Baa! Can they jump the candlestick like Jack? How does the Powell garden grow? After their experience children and the rest of the family can take their time and visit the main house. They may even remember some other rhymes that fit the time and place.

Please Note: This tour is designed for non-reading or early reading pre-school and kindergarten children using 18th century nursery rhymes and discovery of artifacts and activities at the Benjamin Powell property. Children will become familiar with the nursery rhymes and the artifacts associated with each rhyme and will discover these artifacts and recite the rhyme associated with them during their exploration of the Powell property. Each child will experience the feeling of finding and claiming their own little piece of Colonial Williamsburg.

Due to limited space, free reservations are required for all children and accompanying family members.

The Children's Orientation Walk is designed to assist guests with planning their visit and will highlight options that families will enjoy. Guides share the latest information on programming, dining, and shopping options. Guests will receive an overview of the 18th century community and specifically understand what childhood and family life was like in the 18th century. The walking tour lasts approximately 30 minutes.

Between 1776 and 1781 people in Williamsburg faced awesome challenges as they created a new self-governing society against the backdrop of war.  The Revolutionary City recreates critical moments that relive Williamsburg's role in the American Revolution and the War for Independence. 

Come take part in these events and the everyday life of the city against the backdrop of momentous, world-changing historic events.  Meet famous patriots like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Patrick Henry, and lesser known people such as Barbry Hoy, a poor woman whose husband became a prisoner of war; enslaved African Americans like Kate, Hannah and Marcus who debate whether to escape to the British, and a Baptist preacher named Gowan who talks about his hopes for the future where all citizens are equal.

Meet the men and women – rich and poor, great and humble, free and enslaved – who live through these extraordinary times and create our nation.

Guests are free to come and go through the course of this two-hour event. 

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Find out what to look for and how best to enjoy the sights and sounds of the Revolutionary City scenes and events that take place today.

The Declaration of Independence is read to the citizens of Williamsburg. This news arrives only a few weeks after Virginia's representatives have adopted their own Declaration of Rights and a Constitution for the new state.

Guided tours by knowledgeable museum volunteers introduce you to some of the masterworks on exhibit, such as paintings, ceramics, furniture and silver.

Included in museum admission ticket.

Programs and exhibitions at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum are supported by the DeWitt Wallace Endowment Fund.

The American turncoat--now British Brigadier General--Benedict Arnold seizes Williamsburg. Redcoats raise the British flag over the Capitol and announce the rules of occupation.

The Children's Orientation Walk is designed to assist guests with planning their visit and will highlight options that families will enjoy. Guides share the latest information on programming, dining, and shopping options. Guests will receive an overview of the 18th century community and specifically understand what childhood and family life was like in the 18th century. The walking tour lasts approximately 30 minutes.

The Allied American Army has been gathering in Williamsburg, eager to engage the British. As the time to march grows near, the general addresses the citizens concerning the final preparations and his resolve for victory at Yorktown.

Guided tours by knowledgeable museum volunteers introduce you to the whimsical and fascinating paintings, sculpture, textiles and more from Mrs. Rockefeller's original collection, for which the museum was founded.

Thirty-minute tours begin at 12:00 and 2:00 p.m. Included in museum admission ticket.

Programs and exhibitions at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum are supported by the DeWitt Wallace Endowment Fund.

Guided tours by knowledgeable museum volunteers introduce you to some of the masterworks on exhibit, such as paintings, ceramics, furniture and silver.

Included in museum admission ticket.

Programs and exhibitions at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum are supported by the DeWitt Wallace Endowment Fund.

This in-depth tour of the museum's ceramics collection includes interesting stories about the craftsmen, their creations and the functions for which they were used. Learn more about earthenware, stoneware and porcelain from Europe, America and the Orient.

Programs and exhibitions at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum are supported by the DeWitt Wallace Endowment Fund.

Guided tours by knowledgeable museum volunteers introduce you to the whimsical and fascinating paintings, sculpture, textiles and more from Mrs. Rockefeller's original collection, for which the museum was founded.

Thirty-minute tours begin at 12:00 and 2:00 p.m. Included in museum admission ticket.

Programs and exhibitions at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum are supported by the DeWitt Wallace Endowment Fund.

Join a volunteer in the Ceramic Study Room to learn more about rare ceramic forms from Europe, America and the Orient.

Included in museum admission ticket.

Programs and exhibitions at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum are supported by the DeWitt Wallace Endowment Fund.

Ticketed event.

Tuesday, July 27 – Sunday, August 1

July 27–30, Aug. 1 shows at 4 and 6:15 p.m.

July 31 shows at 6 and 8:30 p.m.

Rated: R

Best Foreign Language Film—2010 Academy Awards

Based on the novel by Eduardo Sacheri, this crime thriller about judicial cover-ups and corruption in Argentina was directed by Juan José Campanella. Newly retired from his career in Argentina’s criminal court, Benjamin Esposito (Ricardo Darin), begins writing a novel about a case from this past that still haunts him. In 1974, a beautiful young newlywed was raped and murdered in her home. The case becomes a personal obsession that draws Esposito and his colleague, the brilliant but unreliable alcoholic Pablo Sandoval (Guillermo Francella), into ever riskier situations. Despite their dedication, however, inept officials and politics both internal and external to the court—the ’70s was a turbulent era in Argentine history—threaten to let justice slip away. Searching for an ending to his book, Esposito makes a startling discovery that compels him to redeem his past and seize his future.

Spanish with subtitles. July 27–30 screening room. 127 mins.

Reservations or additional tickets required. Call 1-800-HISTORY for prices and reservations.

Enjoy an interactive public audience with a Founding Father of our nation in the historical context of the 18th century, discussing political and social events of the day.

Guests may enter and exit any time during the program.

Ticketed event.

Shows at 4:15 and 6:30 p.m.

Rated: PG-13

Omar Razaghi, a 28-year-old university doctoral student, has won a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund—his brother, widow, and younger mistress—so he can get authorization to write the biography.

The City of Your Final Destination is three-time Academy Award–nominated director James Ivory’s (The Remains of the Day, A Room with a View, Howards End) 23rd collaboration with two-time Academy Award–winning screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

Based on the novel by Peter Cameron, the film stars Academy Award–winner Anthony Hopkins, three-time Academy Award–nominee Laura Linney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Omar Metwally (Munich).

July 31–August 6 screening room. 117 mins.

Reservations or additional tickets required. Call 1-800-HISTORY for prices and reservations.

Ticketed event.

Tuesday, July 27 – Sunday, August 1

July 27–30, Aug. 1 shows at 4 and 6:15 p.m.

July 31 shows at 6 and 8:30 p.m.

Rated: R

Best Foreign Language Film—2010 Academy Awards

Based on the novel by Eduardo Sacheri, this crime thriller about judicial cover-ups and corruption in Argentina was directed by Juan José Campanella. Newly retired from his career in Argentina’s criminal court, Benjamin Esposito (Ricardo Darin), begins writing a novel about a case from this past that still haunts him. In 1974, a beautiful young newlywed was raped and murdered in her home. The case becomes a personal obsession that draws Esposito and his colleague, the brilliant but unreliable alcoholic Pablo Sandoval (Guillermo Francella), into ever riskier situations. Despite their dedication, however, inept officials and politics both internal and external to the court—the ’70s was a turbulent era in Argentine history—threaten to let justice slip away. Searching for an ending to his book, Esposito makes a startling discovery that compels him to redeem his past and seize his future.

Spanish with subtitles. July 27–30 screening room. 127 mins.

Reservations or additional tickets required. Call 1-800-HISTORY for prices and reservations.

Ticketed event.

Shows at 4:15 and 6:30 p.m.

Rated: PG-13

Omar Razaghi, a 28-year-old university doctoral student, has won a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund—his brother, widow, and younger mistress—so he can get authorization to write the biography.

The City of Your Final Destination is three-time Academy Award–nominated director James Ivory’s (The Remains of the Day, A Room with a View, Howards End) 23rd collaboration with two-time Academy Award–winning screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

Based on the novel by Peter Cameron, the film stars Academy Award–winner Anthony Hopkins, three-time Academy Award–nominee Laura Linney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Omar Metwally (Munich).

July 31–August 6 screening room. 117 mins.

Reservations or additional tickets required. Call 1-800-HISTORY for prices and reservations.