This day with The Smithsonian Associates offers a chance to get a close look at all aspects of Hillwood, as the museum director and curators offer private lectures covering Post’s fascinating life, the Russian and French collections, and the estate’s gardens. 

Virtue & Vice - A Valentine's Day Event

Enjoy a glamorous start to the New Year.

Tickets in the Theater are sold out. Additional seating is available in a simulcast location. Simulcast tickets are $5, and may be purchased by phone. Please call 202.686.5807. For centuries, boxes, caskets, and chests have played an important role in everyday life. The form and decoration of these objects not only reflected changes in social customs and manners but also closely followed the stylistic developments in Europe.

We are closed today for Thanksgiving. 

This is the second lecture in the Great Homes and Gardens Lecture Series.Henry Huntington's superintendent, William Hertrich, was instrumental in developing the various plant collections that comprise the foundation of The Huntington Botanical Gardens. TLearn about the evolution of the Huntington Estate, from the development of the Lily Ponds, Palm, Desert, and Japanese gardens in Mr. Huntington’s day to the institution’s continued change and development as a cultural site. 

This is the fourth lecture in the Great Homes and Gardens Lecture Series.Landscape architect Fletcher Steele considered garden design a fine art along with sculpture and painting, though perhaps more exacting. From 1926 to 1956 Fletcher Steele and Mabel Choate molded a garden masterpiece at Naumkeag. With bold new strokes they created a landscape canvas that sprung from the roots of a late nineteenth-century country estate.