Alden O'Brien, DAR Museum Curator of Costumes and Textiles

If you visit DAR Headquarters between now and the end of April, you will see something new and different in some of the DAR Museum period rooms: mannequins!

This year’s exhibit is installed in twelve period rooms on all four floors, instead of in the Museum Gallery, which will soon

Heidi Campbell-Shoaf, DAR Museum Director and Chief Curator

On October 7, years of research, collecting, and planning culminated in the opening of the DAR Museum’s current exhibition, “An Agreeable Tyrant: Fashion After the Revolution”.  Curator Alden O’Brien, applied her considerable scholarly knowledge of the clothing, history, and society of the early 19th century to the museum’s

Denise Doring VanBuren, First Vice President General and Editor-In-Chief

It’s exciting to share the inaugural edition of new blog installments that will regularly focus on the American Spirit magazine. This entry goes “behind-the-scenes” of a feature from the latest issue!

In addition to editing our Society’s publications since 2004, I was, coincidentally, involved in a story that is