by Lindsey Jancay    At the heart of the Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts is a state-of-the-art collection storage vault. Through the glass wall, guests see rows of dollhouses filled with rare furnishings and figures. Elizabeth Johnston Prime, a Bethlehem native,...

by Elizabeth Farish    The Penhallow-Cousins House in the Puddle Dock neighborhood of Portsmouth, NH, is overseen by Strawbery Banke Museum, the recipient of a 2026 Decorative Arts Trust Failey Grant. Built c. 1750 by Samuel Penhallow, a respected magistrate and...

by Laura Sims Peck The Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is an exceptional teaching and research collection. Home to nearly 14,000 global textiles, the state-of-the-art facility is nestled within the Nancy M. Bruce Center for...

by Lauren D. Whitley    Historic Deerfield’s exhibition Body by Design: Fashionable Silhouettes From the Ideal to the Real has generated significant traffic in the newly renovated Textile Gallery since it opened. The show draws on Historic Deerfield’s superb...

by Howard A. Zar    Although largely unknown today, Alexander Jackson Davis was America’s preeminent architect of the first half of the 19th century. Davis came to prominence as practitioner of the Greek Revival style but later initiated the stateside practice of...