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Discover the Home of George and Martha Washington
Discover the Home of George and Martha Washington
Open 365 days a year, Mount Vernon is located just 15 miles south of Washington DC.
The Estate
The Estate
There's So Much to See
There's So Much to See
From the mansion to lush gardens and grounds, intriguing museum galleries, immersive programs, and the distillery and gristmill. Spend the day with us!
George Washington
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George Washington
Farmer, Soldier, Statesman, and Husband
Farmer, Soldier, Statesman, and Husband
Discover what made Washington "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen".
Preservation
Preservation
Did You Know?
Did You Know?
The Mount Vernon Ladies Association has been maintaining the Mount Vernon Estate since they acquired it from the Washington family in 1858.
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For Your American History Class
For Your American History Class
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Washington Library
Washington Library
The Library of the First President
The Library of the First President
The Washington Library is open to all researchers and scholars, by appointment only.
Wendy A. Cooper is Curator Emerita of furniture at Winterthur Museum following two decades as senior curator of furniture. She is a cum laude graduate of Brown University, and holds an M.A. from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, the University of Delaware. In 1993 when curator of Decorative Arts at the Baltimore Museum of Art, she organized the traveling exhibition Classical Taste in America, 1800-1840, with the accompanying book. She is now a consultant, researcher, writer, and lecturer, and serves on several museum committees and boards.
Alexandra Deutsch is the John L. and Marjorie P. McGraw Director of Collections at the Winterthur Museum. She leads Winterthur’s Collections Division that includes curatorial, conservation, registration, exhibitions, estate history, interpretation and programming. She has also worked as Vice-President of Collections and Interpretation and Chief Curator at the Maryland Center for History and Culture. Her publications include Spectrum of Fashion (2019), Structure and Perspective: David Brewster Explores Maryland’s Social Landscape (2017) and Woman of Two Worlds: Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte (2016).
Adam T. Erby is the Martha Washington Chief Curator and Director of the Fine and Decorative Arts Collection at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, where he oversees the institution’s curatorial collections, historic interiors, special exhibitions, and conservation program. He recently curated the exhibition Mount Vernon: The Story of an American Icon and oversaw the restorations of several Mount Vernon rooms. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. 
Philippe Halbert is Interim Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut. A graduate of the College of William and Mary and the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, he received his Ph.D. in history of art from Yale University in 2022. He has held curatorial positions at institutions including Colonial Williamsburg, the Louvre, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery.
Amy Hudson Henderson is an independent scholar and museum consultant based in Washington, D.C. By focusing on the early United States, she seeks to highlight the political resonance of domestic material culture and the essential roles women in the eighteenth century played in designing and decorating domestic spaces. She holds a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Delaware and a B.A. from Grinnell College. She is the author of “French & Fashionable: The Search for George and Martha Washingtons’ Presidential Furniture,” American Furniture (2019), and is currently working on her book manuscript, Furnishing the Republic: Material Culture, Gender, and Politics in the Nation’s Capital, 1789-1800 (under contract, Oxford University Press).
Dr. Helen Jacobsen is Executive Director of The Attingham Trust, a charitable trust that organizes study programmes for heritage sector professionals. Formerly Senior Curator at the Wallace Collection, she has published on French eighteenth-century decorative art and collecting history and has curated a number of exhibitions, including most recently Inspiring Walt Disney. The Animation of French Decorative Art, an exhibition held at the Wallace Collection in 2022 in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 
Following a thirty-year career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Peter M. Kenny retired in 2015 as the Ruth Bigelow Wriston Curator of American Decorative Arts and Administrator of the American Wing, after which he served, until 2020, as Co-President of Classical American Homes Preservation Trust. An award-winning author and curator, he is a nationally recognized expert in early American furniture, especially the New York school of cabinetmaking led by Charles-Honoré Lannuier and Duncan Phyfe.
Iris Moon is an assistant curator in the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At the Met, she participated in the reinstallation of the British Galleries. She is the author of Luxury after the Terror and co-editor with Richard Taws of Time, Media, and Visuality in Post-Revolutionary France; a new book on Wedgwood will be out this year. Alongside curatorial work, she teaches at Cooper Union. 
Tessa Murdoch is an Associate Research Professor in Cultural History at the University of Buckingham, UK. She has worked at the Museum of London and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Her publications include Europe Divided: Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture, and Great Irish Households: Inventories from the long eighteenth century. She advises England’s National Trust and the National Heritage Memorial Fund, and serves as Chair of the Trustees of the Huguenot Museum, Rochester, Kent. She is a member of the Contemporary Craft Committee at the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths.
Melissa Naulin is the Associate Curator of Decorative Arts for the White House, where she has served since 2003. Prior to coming to the White House, she held curatorial positions at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Winterthur Museum, and the Strong Museum in Rochester, N.Y. She holds a Masters of Art degree from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture/University of Delaware and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College. She writes and lectures frequently on White House topics.
Ashli White is associate professor of history at the University of Miami. She is the author of Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Yale UP, 2023) and Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010). She was the associate curator and co-author of the catalog for Antillean Visions, a 2018 exhibition at the Lowe Art Museum that charted over 500 years of Caribbean maps.