June 24 – August 27, 2005
at the Delaware History Museum

What does the Historical Society of Delaware collect?  

Why does the Society collect what it does 
and how is it used to teach Delaware history?  

What stories do collection objects tell?

Click here to view some of the exhibit.

In the new exhibition at the Delaware History Museum this summer, Rodney to Roth: Delaware’s Collected Memories, the Historical Society of Delaware will answer these questions through a unique and eclectic display of some of the thousands of recent acquisitions.

Rodney to Roth features a small cross section of recent acquisitions of the Historical Society of Delaware from 2000 through the present.  Each year hundreds, sometimes thousands, of items enter the Library and Museum collections through donation, trade with a similar institution, or purchase.  This exhibition will feature photographs, manuscripts, works of art, ephemera, historic costumes, industrial artifacts, decorative arts, furniture, and items of virtually every description collected since the millennium.

Every potential acquisition poses the question: which history are we preserving and is it representative of the experience of Delawareans?   Visitors will see how the Society deals with these questions, as well as how Delaware history can be shown through items collected and given.

The Delaware History Museum
504 Market Street in Wilmington, Delaware
(just a short distance from the Amtrak station!) 

Hours:
Monday through Friday, Noon to 4 p.m.
Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 
Admission: $4 Adults, $3 seniors/students
$2 children 2-18, under 2 are free. 

For more information call 
(302) 656-0637 during museum hours