Philadelphia International Airport 28 min
Delaware Art Museum (15 min) Galleries featuring pre-Raphaelite art, Brandywine school illustrators & 9-acre sculpture garden. Fort Delaware State Park (24 min) Civil War fortress on island accessed by ferry, featuring costumed guides & interactive exhibits. Hagley Museum (17 min) Riverfront site featuring regional industrial history, including gunpowder mills & the du Pont home. Brandywine Creek (12 min) A Revolutionary War battle area, this landmark creek features historic sites & outdoor recreation. Brandywine Zoo (12 min) 4.7 acre zoo in Brandywine Park with about 150 animals, mostly native to the Americas & Asia. Delaware Children's Museum (11 min) Riverfront building for toddlers to teens features interactive exhibits & a climbing structure. Wilmington & Western Railroad (15 min) Rail tour through a wooded valley on a restored steam locomotive, over track laid down in the 1870s. The Delaware Contemporary (9 min) Non-collecting museum features about 30 changing exhibits per year along with artist studios. Delaware Museum of Natural History (19 min) Cozy, kid-friendly museum featuring dinosaurs, shells, a butterfly garden & interactive exhibits. Brandywine River Museum of Art (28 min) Gristmill-turned-museum with paintings by Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth & others plus big windows & views. Nemours Estate (13 min) DuPont family estate featuring a 102-room Louis XVI-style chateau & antiques, plus 100-acre gardens. Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library (20 min) Period rooms in du Pont estate featuring historic decorative arts, plus 60-acre botanical gardens. First State National Historical Park (13 min) Historic spot & national park with green space for public gatherings, plus a courthouse museum. Bellevue State Park (13 min) Former du Pont family estate featuring tennis courts, fitness track, fishing pond, stables & more. Brandywine Creek State Park (18 min) 933-acre preserve divided by 19th-century stone walls, with tulip poplar forest & nature center. |