77th Annual Antiques Forum: Town & Country

The Eighteenth Century witnessed the growth of urban centers as well as agrarian expansion throughout the British Empire. In the New Republic, Thomas Jefferson’s model based on the virtues of agrarianism could not suppress the emergence of a manufacturing nation. Colonial Williamsburg’s 77th Annual Antiques Forum: Town & Country explores the stories of objects, spaces, and people inhabiting both the metropolitan and rural worlds of the 17th through the early 19th centuries. From Jamaica to Ireland, Charleston to Texas, from the meticulously preserved to the miraculously discovered and restored, this year’s Forum has something for everyone. Furniture, textiles, paintings, archaeology, ceramics, unique collections, and new research take the stage for a Forum not to be missed.

In-person and virtual options.