Today, we are excited to launch the online version of the DAR Museum's current exhibition, A Piece of Her Mind: Culture and Technology in American Quilts. This exhibition explores ways in which women participated in traditionally masculine parts of society through the art of quilting. Although this exhibition will

The DAR Museum’s new exhibit is open! “A Piece of Her Mind: Culture and Technology in American Quilts” will be open in our main gallery through December 31, 2019.

The exhibit explores how women in the 19th century created quilts that reflected their makers’ involvement in the

Broderie perse, night-blooming cereus and watermelons share a completely reasonable relationship when you are talking about quilts. Particularly the ones on exhibit in Eye on Elegance: Early Quilts of Maryland and Virginia, featuring dozens of masterpiece quilts from DAR Museum’s collection. In support of the exhibition, museum staff

“Eye on Elegance: Early Quilts of Maryland and Virginia” is now open, and it’s getting rave reviews. The Museum’s new exhibit includes 36 quilts, twice what we can usually fit in the gallery.

The DAR Museum collection is particularly strong in quilts of this region, probably because of our location