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Delaware Art Museum

Museum · Delaware Art Museum

Pre-Raphaelites, Howard Pyle and the Brandywine illustrators, and a sculpture garden, on Kentmere Parkway. Free parking behind the building, which in Wilmington is worth saying. Thursday evenings are free from April to December.

The Delaware Art Museum's red brick facade with three tall arched glass entrances under a pediment, DELAWARE ART MUSEUM carved in the stone band above them, benches either side of a wide paved forecourt.

The front on Kentmere Parkway. The doors are the three arches; the parking is behind you.

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  • Closed Monday and Tuesday.
  • The free Thursday evening only runs April to December. In winter you pay.

What's inside

  • The Pre-Raphaelite collection
  • Howard Pyle and the Brandywine illustrators
  • American art and rotating exhibitions
  • A cafe and a gift shop

The details

Admission
Adults $18, seniors 65+ $16, students with ID $7, ages 7 to 18 $6. Free for members and under-7s. Free for everyone Thursday evenings 4pm to 8pm, April through December.
Restrooms
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Gift shop
Yes
Getting around
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Parking
Free on-site parking behind the building.

Where it is

Delaware Art Museum, 2301 Kentmere Parkway, Wilmington, DE 19806Directions →

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Opening hours printed in white vinyl on a glass door: Wednesday 10am to 4pm, Thursday 10am to 8pm with a 4pm closing from January to March, Friday to Sunday 10am to 4pm, Monday and Tuesday closed.

The hours, on the door. This is where the ones on this page came from — including the detail that the late Thursday stops between January and March.

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A granite sign reading COPELAND SCULPTURE GARDEN mounted on a boulder, with mown lawn, benches and several large sculptures among trees behind it.

The Copeland Sculpture Garden. Outdoors, and a different proposition from the galleries — whether you can walk it when the building is shut is still an open question here.

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A long low glass-walled pavilion beside mown lawn, with a large green-patinated bronze sculpture of a stylised figure on a cylindrical plinth in the foreground and a tarmac path curving past.

The glass pavilion and the lawn. Sculpture is visible through the glass from outside, which is worth knowing on a day the galleries are closed.

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