Join our educators at this hands-on activity table where creativity takes flight! Perfect for budding engineers and aviation enthusiasts, this interactive program allows visitors to design and build their own creations. Whether you’re constructing airplanes, airports, or inventing something entirely new, Saturday STEAM Hour encourages you to...
Ticket Price: Free
Explore the different volunteering options that the museum has to offer, then meet current volunteers and learn about their roles.
Ticket Price: Free
Join the Riversdale Kitchen Guild over the open hearth as they highlight Preservation Month using 19th-century techniques.
Ticket Price: Free
Bring a lawn chair and a picnic dinner and join us on the lawn for our Summer Concert Series 2026.
Ticket Price: Free
Esteemed playwright Psalmayene 24 adapts the groundbreaking historical work, A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War.
Ticket Price: Free
Bring a lawn chair and a picnic dinner and join us on the lawn for our Summer Concert Series 2026.
Ticket Price: Free
Montpelier is honored to present, in collaboration with the Braxton Institute, Dr. Joanne Braxton’s moving photography of her odyssey to Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Senegal.
Ticket Price: Free, donations are welcome.
This lecture explores the often-overlooked contributions of African American soldiers in the Continental Army and reframes the narrative of the Revolutionary War by emphasizing the courage, sacrifice, and significance of African American citizen-soldiers in shaping America’s first...
Ticket Price: Free
Close out Trolley Trail Day with an epic museum concert featuring high energy performances and a special one-night collaboration between Laundry World and the College Park Chorale.
Ticket Price: FREE
Students will explore the fascinating history of printmaking in the 18th century and its influence on the American Revolution.
Ticket Price: $10/student
Please join us as we commemorate Juneteenth with stories of freedom seekers from Marietta.
Ticket Price: Free
Celebrate dad with an afternoon filled with history.
Ticket Price: $ Fathers receive free admission. Adults: $5 Seniors:$4 Students:$2 Children 4 and under: Free
What are the differences between revolutions, rebellions, and acts of treason? Join the Surratt Historic Site & Museum as we take a long view of sparking change in American history.
Ticket Price: Free
Students will discover the origins of the American flag, from its inception at the dawn of the revolution to the many changes since, and learn about key figures who shaped the symbol of our nation.
Ticket Price: $5/child
Bring a lawn chair and a picnic dinner and join us on the lawn for our Summer Concert Series 2026.
Ticket Price: Free
Step into a whirlwind of creativity and history as award‑winning Maryland History Day projects take over the museum.
Ticket Price: Free
Join the Riversdale Kitchen Guild over the open hearth as they highlight recipes using 18th-century techniques.
Ticket Price: Free
Join us for a series of community conversations. We will open the floor to community members to discuss what they want to see in their community and how the Riversdale Historic Site & Museum might play a part in that future.
Ticket Price: Free
In the decade leading up to American independence, white women took on crucial roles in a series of boycotts, petitions, and protests that allowed them to assert themselves as political actors as never before.
Ticket Price: Free
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a vibrant celebration honoring Latina pioneers in aviation and the rich cultures of our Latino community.
Ticket Price: Free
Dinosaur Park Open Houses are a free public program on the first and third Saturday of every month and the second Sunday in the summer. Join us and learn more about fossils, including the dinosaurs who used to call Maryland home.
Ticket Price: Free. No reservations required.
Most people know something about the American Revolution and about the Founding Fathers. But the full story of the Revolution requires us to look beyond their lives and expand its cast of characters.
Ticket Price: Free
Join us for a series of community conversations. We will open the floor to community members to discuss what they want to see in their community and how the Riversdale Historic Site & Museum might play a part in that future.
Ticket Price: Free
Dinosaur Park Open Houses are a free public program on the first and third Saturday of every month and the second Sunday in the summer. Join us and learn more about fossils, including the dinosaurs who used to call Maryland home.
Ticket Price: Free. No reservations required.
