Welcome to eMuseum
The Collections of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Online
George Wythe House, Dining Room
Colonial Williamsburg's collections encompass more than 60,000 examples of fine, decorative, mechanical,
and folk art. Included are American, British, and Continental ceramics, glass, furniture, textiles,
costumes, tools, firearms, numismatics, metals, prints, maps and drawings from the seventeenth,
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as well as outstanding examples of
eighteenth-,
nineteenth-, and twentieth-century American folk art. Many of these objects are used to
furnish the buildings in Williamsburg's Historic Area, where they provide guests with a better understanding
of life in early Virginia. Others are shown in innovative changing exhibitions at the DeWitt Wallace
Decorative Arts Museum and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum.
Use this database to explore a cross section of the collections. Several thousand objects are presented here and more items are added on a regular basis. Find histories, images, descriptions, and more.
Browse by category, or make a targeted search:
- Use "Quick search" to locate an item by accession number or type.
- Use "Advanced object search" to use multiple search criteria.