SPECIAL PROGRAMS
Throughout the year the Decorative Arts Trust collaborates with museums and preservation organizations to create programs promoting special exhibitions, gallery renovations, and other noteworthy projects. These low-cost events range from day-long symposia to private tours and are open to all members. Join today!
Looking for virtual programs? See our Virtual Programs page.
UPCOMING
2026 New York Antiques Weekend and Emerging Scholars Colloquium
SPECIAL PROGRAM
January 23–25, 2026
2027 New York Antiques Weekend and Emerging Scholars Colloquium
SPECIAL PROGRAMS
January 2027
PAST SPECIAL PROGRAMS
2025 New York Antiques Weekend and Colloquium
SPECIAL PROGRAM
January 24–26, 2025
Diplomatic Reception Rooms Anchor D.C. Gathering
REVIEW: DECEMBER 2024 SPECIAL PROGRAM
2024 New York Antiques Weekend and Colloquium
SPECIAL PROGRAM
January 19–21, 2024
2023 Emerging Scholars Colloquium
SPECIAL PROGRAM
January 22, 2023
New York Antiques Weekend 2023
January 20–21, 2023
Scandinavian Design and the United States: Cultural Exchanges From 1890–1980
REVIEW: 2022 SPECIAL PROGRAM
New York Antiques Weekend 2022
January 21–22, 2022
“Borderlands” at The Huntington
REVIEW: SPECIAL PROGRAM
December 4, 2021
The Arts and Crafts Movement from John Ruskin to William Lightfoot Price
SPECIAL PROGRAM
November 6-7, 2021
Exploring Philadelphia Gardens in Fall: International Influence in Landscape and Design
REVIEW: SPECIAL PROGRAM
October 17, 2020
Emerging Scholars Colloquium in Newport
SPECIAL PROGRAM
February 8, 2020
Emerging Scholars Colloquium in New York
SPECIAL PROGRAM
January 26, 2020
New York Antiques Weekend 2020
January 24-25, 2020
A SoCal Excursion to the Gamble House
REVIEW: SPECIAL PROGRAM
November 8, 2019
Special Tour of Yale’s New Furniture Study Center
REVIEW: SPECIAL PROGRAM
October 4, 2019
Member Benefit Tour at PAFA
SPECIAL PROGRAM
November 1, 2019
Emerging Scholars Colloquium at the Preservation Society of Newport County
SPECIAL PROGRAM
June 15, 2019
Emerging Scholars Colloquium 2019
January 20, 2019
New York Antiques Weekend 2019
January 16–19, 2019
The Best of the Maryland Historical Society
SPECIAL PROGRAM
April 24, 2019
Impressive Research & Facilities Bring Drayton Hall Experience to New Heights
REVIEW: SPECIAL PROGRAM
DECEMBER 2018
Discovering Silver Linings: A Special Long Island Outing
REVIEW: SPECIAL PROGRAM
NOVEMBER 2018
Napoleon: Power and Splendor
MEMBER BENEFIT TOUR
July 13, 2018
“Dining by Design” and “Garden Follies”
MEMBER BENEFIT TOUR
June 22, 2018
Connoisseurship and Artful Deceptions: Understanding 18th-Century Ceramics
SPECIAL PROGRAM
May 19, 2018
Emerging Scholars Colloquium 2018
January 21, 2018
New York Antiques Weekend 2018
January 19–20, 2018
Tour the Newark Museum with retiring Chief Curator Ulysses Dietz
SPECIAL PROGRAM
November 3, 2017
The Decorative Arts Trust’s 40th Anniversary Celebration
SPECIAL PROGRAM
September 14, 2017
“The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s”
MEMBER BENEFIT TOUR
July 28, 2017
“Treasures on Trial: The Art and Science of Detecting Fakes”
MEMBER BENEFIT TOUR
July 21, 2017
Tour of the New Museum of the American Revolution
SPECIAL PROGRAM
May 5, 2017
2017 Emerging Scholars Colloquium
SPECIAL PROGRAM
January 22, 2017
New York Antiques Weekend 2017
January 20-21, 2017
“Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650-1830” – Exhibition Tour
SPECIAL PROGRAM
Yale University Art Gallery
October 14, 2016
“Classical Splendor” – A Special One-day Symposium
SPECIAL PROGRAM
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
November 4, 2016
“The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman” Exhibition Tour
SPECIAL PROGRAM
The New-York Historical Society
July 8, 2016
“Asia in Amsterdam” – Exhibition Tour
SPECIAL PROGRAM
April 15, 2016
“Made in the Americas” – Exhibition Tour
SPECIAL PROGRAM
April 9, 2016
Primary Sources: New Research on Virginia Historic Houses and Material Culture
A Symposium presented by:
The Decorative Arts Trust and Wilton House Museum
October 10, 2015