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Events & Programs
Kids Euro Festival: How Do Actors Play?
Kids Euro Festival: Colourful Games
Kids Euro Festival: Baba Marta's Yarn
Kids Euro Festival: Alexander’s Mermaid and the ship of Kyrenia
Kids Euro Festival: Adormecida/ Asleep
Hillwood open July 4, 2014
Hillwood for the Holidays
Halloween Fun!
Family Picnic in Partnership with Rainbow Families
Celebrate La Chandeleur!
'Anna and the Hermitage Cats' Family Fun Day
Preschool Series: Treasure Quest
Kids Euro Festival: Colourful Games
Kids Euro Festival: Colourful Games
Kids Euro Festival: Wow Hoop!
Fanciful Heroes
Kings & Queens
Spectacular Statues
Fanciful Heroes
Garden Sculpture Safari
Family Fun Days
Preschool Series: Kings & Queens
Dina Merrill Film Program
Divas Outdoors presents Hairspray!
Environmental Film Festival Presents: Betting The Farm
Family Movie Night: Creature Feature
Film Screening: Best Short French Films of 2013
Preschool Series: Spectacular Statues
Preschool Series: Kings & Queens
A Perfect Fit
Art Deco Floral Design
Behind Hillwood's Changing Gardens
Behind the Scenes Tour: Specialty Mums at Hillwood
Concert by Not What You Think
Concert: Reimagining the Piano Trio, presented with Levine Music
Concert: The Art of Tradition: Choral Music of Russia and the United States
Fanciful Heroes
Container Garden Workshop: A Succession of Spring Blooms from Bulbs
Container Gardens: Bright Summer Annuals
Cutting Garden Floral
Divas Singin' In the Rain
Traditional Wreath Workshop
Fall Design-Thurs
Fall Design-Tues
Floral Jewels Part One
Floral Jewels, Part Two
French Festival
Friday Spring Designs
Fabergé Egg Family Festival
GF-Season’s Greetings-Thurs
A Family Country House
A Glimpse into Marjorie Post’s Personal Archives
A Homecoming for Hillwood
A Very Merriweather Christmas
Air Plant Wreaths
Art and Passion: A Cultural History of Fragrance
Art of the Table: Floral Design for Entertaining
Beyond Gatsby: The Fabled Gardens of Long Island’s Gold Coast
Bouke de Vries: War and Pieces: Opening Reception
Boxwood Holiday Wreaths
Branching Out: Beyond the Ubiquitous Phalaenopsis
Ceremony: A Movement-Based Performance Inspired by Rich Soil
Contemporary Holiday Wreaths
Conversation with Kristine Mays on the Lawn
CorePower Yoga at Hillwood
CorePower Yoga at Hillwood
CorePower Yoga at Hillwood
CorePower Yoga at Hillwood
CorePower Yoga at Hillwood
DanceInstitute_BEAUTY
Dinnertime Documentaries: Annie Liebovitz: Life Through a Lens
Dinnertime Documentaries: Bill Cunningham: New York
Dinnertime Documentaries: Harry Benson: Shoot First
Divas Outdoors presents Bye Bye Birdie
Divas Outdoors presents Marie Antoinette
Earrings Galore: A Heidi Lowe Gallery Pop-Up Event
Every Day is Earth Day at Hillwood
Fabergé Egg Family Festival
Fabergé Gala
Fabergé Rediscovered: Curator's Reception
Fabergé in London
Fabergé in the Age of Progress
Fabulous Floral Fabergé
Fallout Shelter Tour
Family Picnic in Partnership with Rainbow Families
Floral Design How-To | Celebrate Beauty
Fragrant Floral Design
Fragrant Herb Workshop
From Maquettes to Final Exhibition
From the Inside Looking Out: A Dirt Gardener’s Journey to Elegance
GF-Season’s Greetings-Tues
Gardener's Focus: An Orchid-Filled Greenhouse
Gardener's Focus: Fall Designs
Gardener's Focus: Floral Design and the Cutting Garden
Gardener's Focus: Holiday Decor
Gardener's Focus: Preparing for Spring in the Greenhouse
Gardener's Focus: Specialty Mums
Gardener's Focus: Spring Designs
Gardener's Focus: Summer Designs
Gardener's Focus: Woodland Path
Gilded Age Newport
Girl Scout Day at Hillwood
Hand-tied Bouquets
Hanging Basket Workshop
Herb Garden Workshop
Hillwood Closed for Thanksgiving
Holiday Floral Design
Horticulture How-To | Pollinator-friendly Container Garden
Jazz in the Gardens | A Salute to Duke Ellington
Jazz in the Gardens | Five Generations of Jazz Women
Kids Euro Festival: A Mother's Tear
Kids Euro Festival: EU Shorts
Kids Euro Festival: Fairy Tales for Emma
Kids Euro Festival: Koko and the Ghosts (Koko I Duhovi)
Lightness and Luxury: Historic Scents and Containers
Livestream Discussion with Artist Vladimir Kanevsky
Livestream Lecture | Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion
Livestream Lecture | Women Collectors of Porcelain Flowers and Floral Painting from 17th-20th Centuries
Looking Outside to See Our Way Inside
Madam Walker’s Villa Lewaro
Marjorie Merriweather Post: The Life Behind the Luxury
Marjorie Post & Marie Antoinette
Member Preview Day: Perfume & Seduction
Member Preview Day: The Artistic Table
Member Preview Days: Fabergé Rediscovered
Member Preview Days: Mid-Century Master: The Photography of Alfred Eisenstaedt
Member Preview Hours for Roaring Twenties
Members Holiday Open House
Members Holiday Open House
Members Holiday Open House
Mid-Century Muses: Looking at Fashion in the Photography of Alfred Eisenstaedt
Midnight in the Garden
Miniature Zen Garden
Mounted Orchid Workshop
Mum Floral Workshop
Napoleon: Art and Life in the Imperial Court
Orchid Floral Workshop
Orchid Month
Orchid 101: How to Get Your Orchid to Rebloom
Orchid Workshop: To Repot or Not?
Pajama Party Movie Night
Preschool Series: Fanciful Heroes
Preschool Series: Gardens Alive!
Preschool Series: Gardens Alive!
Preschool Series: Kings & Queens
Preschool Series: Kings & Queens
Preschool Series: Spectacular Statues
Preschool Series: Spectacular Statues
Preschool Series: Treasure Quest
René Lalique and the Art of Perfume
Romance Around the Table
Romancing the Stone
Romancing the Stone Auction
Royal Diamonds
Russia, Royalty and the Romanovs
Russian Winter Festival
Russian Winter Festival
Serene Succulent Workshop
Spooky Pooch Howl-o-ween Celebration
Spooky Pooch Howl-o-ween Celebration
Spring Floral Workshop with Cherry Blossoms
Starry Night Gala
Style and Scent in the 18th Century
Surtouts, Tureens, and Salt and Pepper Shaker sets: Table Decoration, Then and Now
Tanabata Celebration on the Lawn: The Japanese Star Festival
Test - Virtual Family Tour: Russian Royal Adventure
The Art of Seduction
The Art of Seduction Auction
The Artistic Table Floral Workshop
The Cartiers
The Celestial Garden: Astronomy at Hillwood
The Diplomatic Table: Blair House Welcomes the World
The Elements of French Style
The Fashionable Life of Dina Merrill (1923–2017)
The New Elegance: Designing Around the World with Timothy Corrigan
The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin
Tony Duqette’s Dawnridge
Ultimate Insiders: White House Photographers and How They Shape History
Virtual Floral Design How-To | Abundant Roses
Virtual Floral Design How-To | Abundant Roses
Virtual Floral Design How-To | Flowers Fit for Gatsby
Virtual Floral Design How-To | From the Garden to Your Vase
War and Pieces Floral Workshop
Wire Art Workshop on the Lawn
Women Looking at Women: Life Magazine’s Female Photographers
Gardener's Focus: Bones of the Winter Garden
Gardener's Focus: Bones of the Winter Garden
Gardener's Focus: Bones of the Winter Garden
Gardener's Focus: Christmas Decor
Gardener's Focus: Fall Seasonal Design
Gardener's Focus: Preparing for Spring
Gardener's Focus: Rose Garden at its Peak
Gardener's Focus: Specialty Mums at Hillwood
Gardener's Focus: Specialty Mums at Hillwood
Gardener's Focus: The Cutting Garden's Bounty-Thurs
Gardener's Focus: The Cutting Garden's Bounty-Tues
Gardener’s Focus: Japanese-style Garden
Gardener’s Focus: Japanese-style Garden
Gardener’s Focus: Woodland Path-sat
Gardener’s Focus: Woodland Path-thurs
Gardener’s Focus: Woodland Path-tues
Great Homes and Gardens Series
Classicism and Modernity
Dawnridge
Kykuit: The Rockefeller Estate
Sunnylands: America’s Midcentury Masterpiece
Hands-on Workshop: Fall Floral Design
Hillwood Volunteers Spectacular Gems and Jewelry Educational Session
Hillwood Volunteers Spectacular Gems and Jewelry Educational Session
Inside Tchaikovsky’s Seasons—A Concert at Hillwood
Japanese-style Floral Design
Japanese-style Garden Days, with the National Cherry Blossom Festival
Jewels of the Road
Lecture & Performance: Opera in the Court of Catherine the Great
May Floral Design Workshop
Member Preview Days: Spectacular Gems and Jewelry
Miniature Motives, Grand Structures: A concert at Levine Music
Spring Floral Design
Tanabata
Terrarium Workshop
The Birth of Russian Nationalistic Music
Thursday Spring Designs
Tuesday Spring Designs
Welcome-Spring
Calendar
A Day of Horticulture for Volunteers
A Day of Horticulture for Volunteers
A Day of Horticulture for Volunteers
Conifer Pant ID Walk for Volunteers
Deco Japan: 1920-1945
French Furniture and Tapestries Lecture for Volunteers
Friends and Fashion Lecture for Volunteers
Friends and Fashion Lecture for Volunteers
Hanging-Basket Workshop
Japan Deco: 1920-1945
Jewelry and Costume Collections Lecture for Volunteers
Marjorie Merriweather Post & Staff at Hillwood Lecture for Volunteers
Marjorie Merriweather Post's Biography Lecture for Volunteers
Mixed Container Workshop
Orchid Tour for Volunteers
Orchid Tour for Volunteers
Orchid Tour for Volunteers
Orchid Tours for Volunteers
Paintings and Portraiture Lecture for Volunteers
Plant ID Walk for Volunteers
Plant ID Walk for Volunteers
Plant ID Walk
Plant ID Walk
Russian Metalwork, Jewelry, and Fabergé Lecture for Volunteers
Russian Porcelain and Glass Lecture for Volunteers
Seasonal Display Garden Tour for Volunteers
Shrub Tour
Shrub Tour
Shrub Tour
Spring Floral Arrangement Workshop
Staff Dining Room Member Preview Day
Volunteer Appreciation Reception
Volunteer Appreciation Reception
Volunteer Business Meeting
Volunteer Business Meeting
Volunteer Business Meeting
What’s in Bloom Garden Tour for Volunteers
Woodland Path Garden Tour for Volunteers
Woodland Path Garden Tour for Volunteers
Member Events
Curator's Reception
Deco Japan: Curator's Reception
Deco Japan: Member Preview
Four Seasons Opening Celebration and Fall Garden Party
Ingenue to Icon Fall Garden Party
Ingenue to Icon Member Preview Days
Member Preview Day: Friends and Fashion
Member Preview Days
Member Preview: Cartier
Member Preview: Pageant of the Tsars
Member Preview: Splendor and Surprise
Members Holiday Open House
Members: Grab your pooch & high-tail it to Hillwood!
Members’ Holiday Open House
Members’ Holiday Party
Lectures and Talks
A Conversation between Martin Kamer and Liana Paredes
19th century French Luxe for the Russian Court
A Day at Hillwood with The Smithsonian Associates
A Tradition of Change: How The Huntington Embraces History and Modernity, by Jim Folsom
A Visit to Château du Grand-Lucé: Restoring and Decorating a Great Country House, by Timothy Corrigan
An Evening with Charlotte Moss
An Evening with Friends and Fashion
Book Talk: Empress of the Night, by Eva Stachniak
Book Talk: Fiona Hill, author of Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin
Box Beautiful, by Danielle Kisluk-Grosheide
Cartier Lecture Series: Cartier and Women of the National Gem Collection, by Jeffery Post
Cartier Lecture Series: Cartier: Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Dazzling Gems, by Liana Paredes
Cartier Lecture Series: Cartier: The Age of Glamour 1930-1960, by Janet Zapata
Cartier Lecture Series: The Rue de la Paix in Paris: The Center of Belle Epoque Luxury, by Wilfried Zeisler
Casanova
Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd 1917
Fabergé in St. Petersburg
Former People by Douglas Smith
Fortuny Interiors
Four Seasons at Hillwood: Climbing Back Inside the Museum—or Fleeing!
From Downton to Gatsby: Jewelry and Fashion from 1890 to 1929
From Kaftan to Couture: A History of European Fashions in Imperial Russia, 1700-1917
Great Homes and Gardens Lecture Series: Doris Duke's Shangri La, by Thomas Mellins
Great Homes and Gardens Lecture Series: Longwood Gardens--100+ Years of Garden Splendor, by Colvin Randall
Great Homes and Gardens Lecture Series: The Golden Age of American Gardens, by Eleanor Weller Reade
Great Homes and Gardens Lecture Series: Winterthur: An American House and Garden, by Chris Strand
Hardstone
High Society: The Portraits of Franz X. Winterhalter
Ingenue to Icon
Jewels of the Romanovs: The Collections of Maria, Alexandra, Olga and Xenia
Lecture and Object Study: Splendor and Surprise
Lecture at the Smithsonian Associates:Holy Icons of Medieval Russia, by Dr. Scott Ruby
Lecture: A Very Chic World: Maison Jansen, Monarchical Finery, and the Modern Century by James Archer Abbott
Lecture: Catherine the Great as Portrayed by British Artists During Her Reign, by Professor Anthony Cross
Lecture: Going for Gold: Snuff Taking, Fashion and Accessories, by Tessa Murdoch
Lecture: Pageant of the Tsars
Lecture: The Art Collections of Two Powerful Women: Empress Catherine the Great & Marjorie Merriweather Post, by Dr. Asen Kirin
Lecture: The Culture of Imperial Russia by Rosamund Bartlett
Managing Great Estates Lecture Series - DC’s Downton Abbey in a Mad Men-Era, by Estella Chung
Managing Great Estates Lecture Series - English Country Estates in the Edwardian Era, by Curt DiCamillo
Managing Great Estates Lecture Series - Gilded Age Newport: Society Stalwarts and their Staffers, by Charles J. Burns
Managing Great Estates Lecture Series - The Rothschilds at Exbury, by Michael Hall
Monuments Man: Hillwood's Marvin Ross
Naumkeag: Garden Conservation as Fine Art, by Lucinda A. Brockway
Opening of the Russian Sacred Arts Gallery
Pageant of the Tsars Symposium
Passion of the Empress Symposium
Perennial Traditions: Marjorie Post’s Floral Designs
Rasputin
Romanov Splendor: An evening with Galina Korneva & Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm
Slow Art Day
Study Day - Classic Chic: Interior Design for Living Artfully
The Contemporary Role of Fashion in Politics and Power
The Firm of Fabergé: Business, Clients, and Collectors
The Frederick J. Fisher Lecture: 20th Century Jewelry and Icons of Style, by Stefano Papi
The Nationalities of Russia Porcelain Figures, presented by Tina Khmelnitskaya
The Tsar’s Painter Symposium
Vigée Le Brun in Paris, Rome, and Russia
Visions of Vizcaya: A Passion for the Past, by Ian Simkins
William Randolph Hearst and His Life with Art
Wondrous Secrets Behind Roentgen Furniture Revealed: A New Look at Marjorie Post’s Fascinating Desk, by Dr. Wolfram Koeppe
Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes--A Concert at the Levine School of Music
Social Events
Virtue & Vice - A Valentines Day Event
Be Dazzled: The Opening Night Celebration for Cartier, Marjorie Merriweather Post's Dazzling Gems
Classic Cars of the Deco Era
Deco Japan Gala
Fashionable Classic Cars
From Russia With Love: A Valentine's Day Opening Benefit
Living Artfully Opening Gala
Night of Decadence
Nuit de la Mode
Queen of Hearts: A Valentine's Day Opening Benefit
Queen of Hearts Tickets
Museum Day Live!
Exhibitions
Konstantin Makovsky: The Tsar's Painter
Deco Japan: 1920-1945
Ingenue to Icon: 70 Years of Fashion from the Collection of Marjorie Merriweather Post
Fabergé Rediscovered
Kristine Mays: Rich Soil
Natural Beauties: Exquisite Works of Minerals and Gems
Roaring Twenties: The Life and Style of Marjorie Merriweather Post
The Luxury of Clay: Porcelain Past and Present
The Porcelain Flowers of Vladimir Kanevsky
Bouke de Vries: War and Pieces
Perfume and Seduction
Four Seasons
Friends and Fashion
Mid-Century Master: The Photography of Alfred Eisenstaedt
Spectacular Gems and Jewelry
The Artistic Table
Past Exhibitions
Passion of the Empress: Catherine the Great's Art Patronage
Living Artfully: At Home with Marjorie Merriweather Post
Pageant of the Tsars
Prêt-à-Papier
The Style that Ruled the Empires: Russia, Napoleon and 1812
Cartier: Marjorie Merriweather Post's Dazzling Gems
Wedding Belles
Splendor and Surprise
