10:10 a.m., Jan. 11, 2010----Eight cultural institutions in the Brandywine Valley are waiving admission fees on Saturday, Jan. 23, according to Bill Sullivan, managing director of Marriott's Courtyard Newark-University of Delaware hotel on campus.

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The hotel works closely with tourism in the region and is a member of the Greater Wilmington Convention and Visitors Bureau, which announced the free day.

Waiving admission fees on Jan. 23 will be the eight members of the Brandywine Museums and Gardens Alliance. The “free day” was offered for the first time in 2009, and the results were overwhelmingly positive.

The attractions that will be admission-free are the:

Brandywine River Museum, internationally known for its unparalleled collection of art by three generations of Wyeths;

Delaware Art Museum, with a world-renowned collection of American art and illustration, and British Pre-Raphaelite art;

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, one of the nation's leading contemporary visual arts organizations;

Delaware Historical Society, including the Delaware History Museum and the Read House and Gardens;

Delaware Museum of Natural History, with an African watering hole, dinosaur skeletons, and an interactive Discovery Room;

Hagley Museum and Library, a 235-acre site along the Brandywine River that houses the remains of the original DuPont gunpowder mills and family residence;

Rockwood Museum, an English country estate that features unique gardens and a Rural Gothic mansion; and

Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, the ancestral home of renowned antiques collector Henry Francis du Pont, where the 175-room mansion set amongst 1,000 acres houses the preeminent collection of American antiques and decorative arts.

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