Programs & Events

Pre-Raphaelite Weekend

We welcome travelers from around the world—as well as local art lovers—for a weekend-long celebration of Pre-Raphaelite art, culminating in our Saturday evening Promenade.

Pass includes:

• Weekend-long admission to the Delaware Art Museum and The Rossettis, November 9-12
• Pre-Raphaelite Musical Soirée, Thursday evening, November 9, featuring Dr. Tim Barringer (Yale University) and musicians Lucy Fitz Gibbon and Ryan McCullough.
• High Tea on Friday afternoon, November 10
• Behind-the-scenes experience (Date and time will be assigned for either November 10 or 11.)
• Ticket to the Pre-Raphaelite Promenade: The DelArt Gala, November 11
• Drop-in tours and gallery experiences

The Pre-Raphaelite Weekend is co-hosted by the Delaware Art Museum and the Pre-Raphaelite Society.

Sponsorship packages, including tickets to the Pre-Raphaelite Promenade: The DelArt Gala, are available.

Image: Aurelia (Fazio’s Mistress) (detail), 1863–73, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Oil on mahogany. Purchased with assistance from Sir Arthur Du Cros Bt and Sir Otto Beit KCMG through the Art Fund 1916. Tate. Photo: Tate.

Organizers & Sponsors

The Pre-Raphaelite Weekend is sponsored by AARP Delaware and Capital & Worth (doing business as H&R Block). This organization is supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts and by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on www.DelawareScene.com.