Awesome place! Definitely worth the ticket price. You can down all day here walking around, learning about the history, and watching several exhibitions. And this is during COVID when we couldn’t go inside anywhere except the gift shop. The Brandywine River is beautiful and they have several picnic tables and benches to relax on. Definitely worth the trip.

Great volunteer guides add a lot. Machine shop and history of gunpowder were very well presented. Also the steam demo. Main building temporarily being renovated but for 9.00 just go. Especially if nice weather

Great and awesome place! Definitely worth a drive and visit. It is cool to walk around and see the various buildings and demonstrations! They provide a great atmosphere and facility. I want to go back again!

Great place to explore history with kids. Fun photo op along the Delaware Discoveries Trail.

This is a unique place in the region, and one of my familys favorite places to come, in all seasons. Picturesque strolls, Science and engineering programs for the kids (and adults alike), the Fall Classic Car show, Fireworks, Gun Powder demonstrations, Summer Bike and Hike, and much more!My son likes looking for the fish and snakes that call the river and rocks home.Bring your family out today and experience your own memories.

Due to COVID-19 many of the buildings were closed so Ill go back once they are fully open. The gunpowder demo was good and so was the intro to the 5 generations of duPont. It was interesting to read about his car factory and to hear from a mechanic about the car on display. For the $9 fee ($8 if you ordered the ticket online) it was a good history lesson and I am glad I discovered it today. This is where the duPonts got their start and hearing that story was great.

Great day out. Plenty to explore. Lots of history.

Great docents and its clear the museum staff have been doing so much work. New stonework and historic building repair. Much work in the old gardens have them looking great. This is a must see museum for people interested in the duPonts, history, gunpowder, water power, and old machinery. Our just a wonderful walk along the roads and trails.

We visited Hagley after a short drive from Auburn Valley State Park. There is plenty of parking and picnic tables close to the parking lot. There are flushing toilets by the parking lot too.We bought out tickets from the gift shop and waited at the designated boarding station for the bus to the main house.The bus makes one stop at the machine shop to pick up passengers to take them to the house.At the last bus stop (Eleutherian Mills), there is a guide who provides introductory information about the family. After that you walk to the barn, the gardens, outside the home and the lower level of the barn. All of this places have a guide.We were there for about one hour and then waited for the bus. The bus made a brief stop ( about 10 minutes) at the Steam engine house for a demonstration.There was another stop at Machine shop. This was our stop and from here we visited the machine shop and had a Black powder explosion demonstration. We toured the rest of the buildings and then walked towards the visitor center to exit.Bathrooms are available throughout the property.

I was only able to do the walking tour of the community down below. The staff and the sites were phenomenal with the restoration and preservation of a time period. It was a great historical visit.

Hagley Museum details the history of the Dupont Gun Powder operation along Brandywine Creek in the 1700-1800s. It had a very informative museum and beautiful grounds including a machine shop, gun powder demonstration, Foremans house, and one room school house. The museum itself currently isnt open due to COVID but everything else is. They have lots of cool events each year as well including an excellent care show in September.

One of the top three at that top of my list of personal favorites for DuPont centric museums. DE has a passport offer where you can go to many of the highlights found in the state, including this location. The house overlooks the areas where the river was harnessed to mill gunpower. There is so much to see for children through adults.

We like going there. Seem to learn new things each time we go. I am a huge fan of the machine shop.

I highly recommend going to the Hagley Museum! Whether you are a history buff or a lover of nature it has a lot to offer.

A rich history of Dupont and gun powder manufacturing. Great place to visit with the kids. They often have fireworks in the summer. Learn a little history, take a tour and stroll along the waterway. Nice grounds. They also run beer events over the summer. Definitely recommend.

Wow! What a gem! We had a blast during our first visit and cant wait to return! So many fun activities for kids plus plenty of historical and technical info for my husband!

Such a blast (haha) being here! We stopped in just before 4pm and enjoyed the last hour the museum was open. Wish we could have spent more time there! In the short one hour we got to see the machine shop demo and gunpowder demo. Both are amazing. Highly, highly recommend!

Loved it so much spent 2 days here! If in the area it is a must see! Engineering at its finest !

The birthplace of DuPont Company on the banks of the Brandywine. Historical tour and beautiful grounds.

This place tells the history behind the production of black powder by the DuPont company, as well as the family behind it. Wonderful tours and beautiful property and gardens.

Great history lesson about the start for the DuPont family in Deleware. The house and furnishings are relatively modest compared to Winterthur and Nemours, but it is still well worth visiting. It is a fun way to spend a few hours.

Very friendly staff and tour guides. Everyone of them. They call themselves DuPonters, as do all who work for the DuPont company I am told. All who worked there were very enthusiastic about the DuPont family and what they have done for this country. I would say that their narrative was a little slanted to only see the good, but isn’t that the way of all tour guides? Just take it with a grain of salt when you go and use logic and reasoning. Such as when they tell you that the DuPont’s “educated” all of the poor children of their workers to the point they could read. This meant they were taught during Sunday School for one hour each week. As a first grade teacher I know the children would not have had enough educational time to learn how to read at this rate. I discussed this with my guide but it was insisted that everyone learned to read because of the DuPont’s. I found this delusional. They also refused to broach the topic of slavery or what the DuPont’s did in the later years (think Agent Orange). However, it was very interesting to see the old mills, how they created the first gun powder, how they chose their location, and how everything worked.This would not be the top of my list for places to visit. But if you have a couple of hours and want to learn a little bit of history it would be worth it.

A beautiful place to visit. A must see if youre in the Wilmington area.

This is a must if youre at all interested in the DuPont family history. Well preserved. Great tour; very informative.

Hagley in and of itself has a nice historic presentation on industry on the Brandywine River. The docents do a great job with the visitors, especially school-age children. Its a pretty place for a walk along the river, too. However, the STEM event we lucked into was awesome. My granddaughters loved the hands on learning, and came away with a lot of enthusiasm to continue doing similar things at home. Fun, but not a Disney princess. It was great!

Love the demos and the guides are friendly, helpful and knowledgeable about the historic features.

This was my first visit, there is lots of historical structures left to see. The grounds are extensive, and its along the Brandywine River, so its nice for a hike too. I enjoyed the mansion tour and had a nice lunch at the cafe. Theres not a lot of food places close by (I saw none on the way in), so pack a lunch if you are making a day of it, but I enjoyed the cafe. I ended up spending almost 6 hours here, taking pictures, and a leisurely self guided tour. The little buses take you around the site, if you wish. Its not really a place for young children, but I would say 7 and up would enjoy it. Its also a great place for couples, I saw they have picnic dinners for 2 on select days in the summer and would make a romantic date. I came on a weekday, so after the school groups left in the morning, I had the place mostly to myself. I definitely want to come back! Update: I came back for a Christmas tour, and it was worth the 2nd trip, I saw and learned things I hadnt on my 1st visit, and everyone is so friendly! I plan on a spring visit. Hagley is great in any season!

Well preserved historical grounds ... beautiful landscaping

As a 1dr time visitor, the family took advantage of the free admission week. Great to get outside and explore history.

Great place to visit. I spent over 4hours here and enjoyed every minute of it.

Visited the museum last year. Great to see the history of DuPont when you visit the USA from the Netherlands for work (DuPont). Great experience to see how old equipment is used. Fantastic to see all the enthusiasm from the volunteers. You feel directly welkom when you enter the museum.

I fell in love with every detail. So very beautiful. The deep history as well as the craftsmanship is amazing.

We are members but decided to go on one of the coldest days of this winter so far... The place is beautiful, even when there is no green in the trees... The staff are delightful and made the best of it when the welcome center suddenly lost power... On the shuttle up to the house, we saw a bald eagle swooping over the Brandywine River looking for fish and on the way back we saw him perched in a tree. Hagley is well worth a visit in any weather...

One of the best places to visit. Its nice to see the vintage collection and the history of the French family who came and settled down in the United states. I thoroughly enjoyed and appreciate the guide for taking time and explaining us in detail about the history of the Hagley.

My husband and I had so much fun coming to this park! It was $15 for admission, and there is a bus that will take you from site to site although you can easily walk the first half of it. We were initially let down because we thought it was going to be more of an arboretum/garden/free roaming place like the Nemours Estate (IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TO THE NEMOURS ESTATE, YOU HAVE TO GO!!!) but it was more like a limited guided tour. Having said that, it was a lot of fun and the staff is so hands on that we learned more about the history of the Du Ponts than in any of the other sites we have been to! (And we have been to several). A charming and hilarious tour guide brings you through the house, you can spend time walking the vegetable gardens and learning more about the land, the bus brings you back to the path where you can walk and explore a little bit of the surrounding land, you get to see how they used to utilize steam and the waterwheel, they fire a mini canon (this was super fun to see), and there is a gunpowder demonstration. You can also walk up to the schoolhouse and practice your quill writing skills, and you can tour an old house where the workers used to live. It was a very educational experience and we do not regret going at all! FYI you will not get cell service here, although the visitors center does have WIFI.

Pretty cool place, you can actually see how the machinery in the workshops works.

Wonderful, beautiful, our happy place.

Wonderful place to go see and learn the beginnings of the Du Pount industry. Very peaceful. Everything is wheelchair accessible.

This place is great. We have the Brandywine valley passport and decided to stop by here on a Sunday afternoon. It wasnt crowded. The staff is very knowledgeable and friendly. There are many things to see. I highly recommend checking out the demonstrations.

Very interesting museum. I arrived late so I could not tour the entire property which consists of several buildings: working 19th century mill, stationary period steam engine, home of I.E. Du Pont, school house and a few others.The main building was very informative and had several interactive diaramas, a few pieces from the Du Pont family very well preserved and some very interesting information about the formation of their company.The property is very beautiful as well and the staff was very nice and well informed.Tickets only $15 for adults.Be sure to give yourself at least 3-3.5 hours to tour the property and keep in mind they close at 5pm.

It was a quite place to walk a sunny day. To walk back to a different time in history. A place where gun powder was made in the United States.

Wonderful history of the DuPont family and their origins. History of the Brandywine River mills and industry of the area is very interesting and educational.

This was a great experience. We enjoyed a tour of the family home with a very knowledgeable guide. After which we went down for a demo in the machine shop and then the gun powder demo both of which were educational and entertaining. We ran out of time to see the workers area. It nice that the ticket allows you entrance in 2 days.

Awesome place we loved it there we spent five hours there and we saw everything there are three different tours two on the hour and one on the half hour one of the tours on the hour takes you an hour they also have a lot of cool dioramas some of them move they have a cafe there that serves good food you also get to look at the old buildings and if you get tired of walking they have a bus.

Very educational, and full of a lot of activities for everyone to enjoy!

Well kept grounds. Educational. Saturday is science day for kids so they enjoyed activities.

Had an absolutely awesome time here. The guides and staff are so knowledgeable and friendly. This is the site of the first DuPont powderworks, and includes factory and residential pieces. The mansion and gardens are beautiful. The workshops, which still have working steam and river powered lathes, drills and other equipment were fascinating. Great piece of history.

Thank you Linda P. GrossReference LibrarianHagley Museum and LibraryYour hospitality and Consideration and Generosity with your time in helping me find a Book so important to my Research . Appreciated Greatly. Kind Regards Seamus Fleming Kerry ireland

Awesome area to pat a visit. Loved to be able to take photos and learn the history of the powder mill!

My husband and I had a nice experience here. They were very friendly and the grounds are beautiful.

Very well presented history of the beginning of DuPont

Beautiful landscape with friendly, helpful staff.

Definitely a must see if youre in Delaware. The original location of the DuPont gunpowder manufacturing facilities. The homes and gardens are very well maintained and manicured. Its not hard to easily spend 8-10 hours here with the older buildings and some of the original buildings. Nice view along the Brandywine as well. Plenty to see and if youre into photography, absolutely take your camera!

This place is wonderful! I grew up in NJ and didnt even know it was there. The staff are very knowledgeable and happy to tell you about everything. Great walking paths and lots of information. Got a membership so we can go again soon!

$15 entrance fee allows you spend all day at this wonderful museum complex. Staff is top notch, lots to see, great exhibits with staff that knows how to narrate the story of DuPonts black powder in the US.Large spralinng facility with continuous short bus service; great walk as well if you so choose. We spent 5 hours and did not see everything. Well worth the time and small fee. You wont be disappointed. Get there early!

We went and not a lot is open but there were still guides to tell us about the grounds.

A beautiful museum village that brings to life the story of the origins of the DuPont family, Delaware and the Brandywine Valley. Knowledgeable staff, first rate preservation in a bucolic setting.

Amazing place for the scientifically minded! If you have any interest in chemistry youll love the place. The gunpowder mills, the water-powered systems, and the museum on the history of the DuPont company (much of which involves polymers) are first-rate.

Great exhibits and scenic grounds. I was especially impressed that the water-powered equipment is in working condition after so many years and is available for demonstration.

Its all about how Do Pont got his start. We had a beautiful day, I would not recommend a hot day, much walking, wear good shoes. Beautiful place to visit along side the river.

Jackie Bouvier helped curate the property when it transitioned into a museum

Lovely place for a relaxed weekend getting immersed in history related to the 8th largest. Chemical company in the world today. You also come to know about the Dupont family started humbly, the importance of Black Powder/gun powder in the 1800s and why they decided to start in Wilmington. Tremendous piece of history for kids and adults . They also give a tour of the 1st Dupont family home, a tour of the gun powder mills and how they made it and finally live demo of firing a mini canon using gun powder . Beautiful place to just walk around as well .Note : Gets more interesting if you ask questions. I asked them about the role of the family in the civil war given they were the largest producers in US and I heard what I had suspected. Visit and find out :) .

Staff is so helpful. This place is majestic

Definitely a place worth visiting!! We want to come back in the Summer.

We took the evening tour of Hagley for the holidays. Fabulous! Our dolcent shared so many great stories of the duPonts and their history. This is a dont miss hidden gem of an event. Go if you have a chance!

Hayley museum and mills is the site of Henry DuPonts first business created in the late 1800s ; a black powder mill used to create gun powder for the Civil War.The tour is very informative with docents walking you through the entire process that DuPont created in his original mill. A caution for anyone with any mobility problems; you need to be able to walk through a lot of uneven terrain ( as someone with a cane, I found it rather difficult). A tour of DuPonts first home and gardens is also included. If you are into early American history, you will enjoy this tour. The tour guides are very knowledgeable and fun.

A wonderful place to learn about the age of water power, production of gun powder and machines in general. Can be lots of walking, although there is a small bus. If its hot and humid, it can be miserable. The staff is friendly and helpful. Dont miss the exhibit on the first floor of the visitors center. There is a good gift shop, a little upscale. Follow the signs carefully for the last mile or two: its easy to miss. Go to the Hagley Museum, NOT the Hagley Library.

Great views along the Brandywine Creek.

Great museum very interesting, unexpected... great for kids with engineering interests, much more than history...

Very interesting. The photo of the turbine driven by the water was incorrectly attributed to the adjacent state park. Lots of history here. The flower and vegetable garden is being returned to its historical origins. Very peaceful and the trees are wonderful.

Everyone should understand something of how life was lived 200 years ago and how the ingenuity of people then helped bring us to where we are today. Hagley is an excellent place for young and old to gain those insights.

Wonderful museum. Lots to see with very informative demos. Docents really knowlegeable. Some walking but they had a bus that ran throughout the day.

Way more fun and informative than I expected. Getting to be in a fully-functional, water-driven machine shop and seeing the gunpowder power exhibition really made this a good way to spend an afternoon.

The outdoor stuff like the mill ruins was pretty neat to explore (even in the cold and rain). The mansion was kind of underwhelming and not at all as youd expect from a Dupont house.

The guides were fantastic. We started with a great welcome from Laura Beasley. Then house tour by Rodney Simmons to machine shop Debbie Krape then roll mill Bill Baldwin. They all did a great job. Must see.

Excellent Du Pont estate museum, staff is very friendly and knowledge, well worth the admission multiple times over!

Amazing experience! Lovely place!

Love that place. Especially walking around and learning about gunpowder and how it works. Berlin house restaurant food was deliciously.

Very nice place with informative, lovingly presented tours. The outdoor walks are picturesque and the old processes and facilities are the right balance of as it was. Recommend visiting in the spring and fall, or cooler summer days.

The people here are truly passionate about the place and their knowledge of the history is truly impressive. The tour guide was very very friendly and she was very knowledgeable. We will be going back in the Fall to see it at another time of year. The history of this site is really interesting and shows what makes American the great country it has always been. I have to thank the DuPont family for being so generous and sharing their success and history with all of us. I am very grateful to the family and the wonderful staff that makes this a wonderful experience. Thank you.

Great place to visit and get some local and National history. The guides are extremely knowledgeable and friendly. The E.I. Dupont House was beautiful inside and out. The displays and exhibits are great to experience, some coming to life with stories, lights, and movement.

From the moment we walked in the visitor center until we left, we had an awesome experience. Since it was a chance of rain all day, I believe that kept most people away and that was okay with us. We were the only ones on the van with the very well educated driver who personalized the tour as we went along the route. Then we got to the house and was again given one on one service with the tour guide who really knew her info too. We ended with the guided tour of the Roll Mill, a must for the history in its self. Our tour guide was even generous to do it all in the rain so we could fully experience the whole tour. I highly recommend visiting the Hagley Museum!

Attended the Wednesday evening bike, hike and Brew. What a great idea! I was pleased to see how many people attended. There were lots of families and both hikers and bikers. We ordered a picnic dinner which was delicious and very reasonably priced. Beware biking the big hill! You will definitely feel a sense of accomplishment when you are done.

It was great. So glad we went. The tour guides are very professional and the tours are so informative. Well worth the money

A wonderful look at 19th century engineering and technology. The staff are friendly and helpful as well as exceptionally knowledgeable! Great place to visit if youre into the history of technology.

Love this place!

Exceeded my expectations! The tour guides made it very educational and enjoyable. Good for kids too with the demos.

This was pretty boring especially for kids. As other reviews stated Guides are constantly telling kids dont do this dont do that. Even when kids are not doing anything. They seem anxious and stressed all the time... The entrance price $15 per person is also a little ridiculous we spend $60! Just to see nothing but old houses and furniture, the powder yard stop which is just walking around a creek. The steam engine also boring and not even working when we went. The easy does it was just to play with bicycle wheels and other wheels.. And try to eat before coming unless you want to spend almost $10 for a ham and cheese sandwich!!

Such an interesting place to visit. Go there to see how the du Pont story started.

I love the history in DE! This museum is so well run. The grounds are gorgeous!

The staff were all friendly and helpful. The tour guides all had a great attitude even in the horrible heat we had that day, and we enjoyed their quirky personality.

I never realized how the DuPonts got their start. This museum is where they made their first significant money. Their is a nice mansion but it is tiny compare to their later ones. It is a mill where they made black gun powder. There are many exhibits that are fascinating if you like history. There is a machine shop where they demonstrate the various tools and many other things to see

Good but horrible horrible place for young children. Many tour guides were quite rude about kids being there. As we went during the week when the kids portion was not available to the public. Other then that it was a beautiful place and well kept landscaping with wonderful history. We just wont go back with kids unless the kids portion was open

Very interesting. Be sure to go down to the work area by the water.

What a great museum! No matter what you like, this is a great museum. Great 19th Century history. Wonderful hands-on science exhibits for kids. Beautiful gardens and grounds. Industrial technology. So much to see and so well presented. Love it!

Very informative. Transportation was very convenient. The docents were knowledgeable and readily answered additional questions !

Love the great men that gave demonstration and narratives.

Great place to learn about Dupont History

Amazing place to start with learning history of Dupont family.Lot of fun. If you coming 3+ people or more than one time - grab membership.Make sure to visit different seasons.

Such a beautiful place! Really a very inexpensive outing for the family and worth every penny. We went on a science Saturday with 2 10 year old girls and they were thoroughly entertained all afternoon. Get there early in the day so you have plenty of time to truly experience everything they have to offer.