Delaware Heritage Collection
All Collections
Air Mobility Command Museum
The Air Mobility Command Museum is the nation's only museum dedicated to airlift and air refueling history. Housed in a WWII-era hangar, the museum exhibits a growing collection of historically significant aircraft and artifacts. A photo archive and reference library are available. The AMC Museum is a great resource for students and …
Barratt's Chapel and Museum
Barratts Chapel Museum houses a research library emphasizing Methodist history and the archives of the Peninsula-Delaware Annual Conference. The archives contain a wide variety of material dating from the eighteenth century to the present, including membership records of closed churches, annual conference records, sermons, memoirs, and …
Buttonwood School & Museum
The Buttonwood School & Museum is a grant, and private funded historical black school with responsibilities, and commitments to protect the irreplaceable, rich history instill pride, and restore respect for the community. The Buttonwood School endeavors to educate the community on the past, while embracing the future.
Delaware Art Museum
The Helen Farr Sloan Library & Archives of the Delaware Art Museum houses over 38,000 volumes and 2,000 linear feet of archives. The manuscript collections focus on three major collecting areas-- the Pre-Raphaelites, Howard Pyle and his students, and John Sloan and "The Eight"-- each complementary to the strengths of the Museum's …
Delaware Library Association
Documents the history of the Delaware Library Association through bulletins, conference notes, correspondence, photographs and ephemera.
About the collections
Documents, artwork, maps, newspapers, slides, photos, audio/video and other important items documenting Delaware’s rich history and culture can now be explored online! Through the Delaware Heritage Collection, items previously available only in local libraries, archives, museums, historic sites and other cultural institutions are being digitized and made available to anyone who has access to a computer.
This exciting project creates an online portal that makes it easy to search, discover, retrieve and view items and information. The technology offers many user-friendly tools and options that help bring Delaware’s history and heritage to life.
Content is included from the following institutions:
Air Mobility Command Museum
Barratt's Chapel and Museum
Buttonwood School & Museum
Delaware Art Museum
Delaware Library Association
Delaware Museum of Natural History
Delaware State University Archives and Special Collections
Milford Museum
Newark Historical Society
Old Swedes Foundation
Wilmington University Archives
Delaware Public Libraries:
Corbit-Calloway Memorial Library
Delaware City Public Library
Laurel Public Library
Lewes Public Library
New Castle Public Library
Selbyville Public Library
Wilmington Public Library
Delaware State Agencies:
Division of Libraries
Government Information Center
Public Archives