by The Trust | May 22, 2026
Antique Dollhouse Vault Opens for Rare Public Viewing at Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites 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...
by The Trust | Apr 28, 2026
Historic Wallpapers of the Cousins Apartment at Strawbery Banke Museum 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...
by The Trust | Nov 12, 2025
Quilting Connections 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...
by The Trust | Aug 7, 2025
New Exhibition Highlights Fashionable Silhouettes, From the Ideal to the Real 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...
by The Trust | Jul 24, 2025
Lyndhurst Presents Alexander Jackson Davis Exhibition 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...
by The Trust | Jul 3, 2025
Conserving Two Banners of Liberty by Matthew Skic Thanks to the generous support of the Decorative Arts Trust through the Dean F. Failey Fund, the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, PA, was able to accomplish the conservation treatments of two...
by The Trust | Aug 15, 2024
Exhibition Highlights Black Newporters of the 17th-19th Centuries The Newport Historical Society recently launched the exhibition A Name, A Voice, A Life: The Black Newporters of the 17th-19th Centuries (figure 1). Supported in part through a generous grant by the...
by The Trust | Aug 1, 2024
Read Summer 2024 Magazine Articles Online Select articles from the summer 2024 issue of The Magazine of the Decorative Arts Trust are now available in webpage format. Enjoy reading these fascinating articles online. “A Primer on Portugal” by Matthew A. Thurlow...
