Rockwood Museum

Rockwood Museum is located within Rockwood Park off Shipley Road in Wilmington, Delaware and is approximately 30 minutes drive from Philadelphia International Airport. The museum is open 10am to 2pm Wednesday to Sunday with guided tours provided on the hour. Rockwood is now a public park but was once an estate created in the mid 19th century.

The park now has a six acre historic garden with a mansion built for merchant banker, Joseph Shipley and where the museum is housed. The rooms of the mansion have been restored to the way they would have looked back in 1895. Visitors to the museum will learn about the Bringhurst family, who were related to Shipley and moved here after his death in the 1890s.

The museum also educates its visitors on various topics such as American history, social studies, technology and science from that late 19th/early 20th century perspective. Many of the paintings kept at the museum and some of the furnishings are original to the mansion. These items are a mix of English, Continental and American decorative arts from the 17th and 19th centuries. Visitors can purchase Victorian era related souvenirs from the museum's gift shop during museum opening hours.