Things To Do

Make Learning About Newark Delaware an Active event. Here are a Few Tips on How:

• Take walking tours
• Keep track of the number of steps you take while walking around
• Take the stairs when possible

You can also start by visiting these great links!

• Delaware Tourism Office
• Kent County & Greater Dover Tourism

Free Museums, Cultural Events and Other Places of Interest

Are you more interested in cultural experiences than physical activity? Why not combine the two- keep track of the number of steps it takes you to see an entire museum, take the stairs whenever possible, walk around for 30 minutes when visiting art and craft shows, concerts or the Riverwalk.

Museums

• Air Mobility Command Museum The Air Mobility Command Museum, located in Hangar 1301 on Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware, houses some of the most unique and distinguished military flying machines of the past 50+ years.
• Bowers Beach Maritime Museum Oystering and fishing industries of the past are highlighted in this small museum, as well as a collection of maritime curiosities from the Delaware River and Bay.
• Biggs Museum The Biggs Museum of American Art houses a personal collection that has been in the making for over half a century. The paintings span two hundred years and survey major periods in American art, from colonial portraiture to twentieth-century Impressionism. The furniture and silver represent some of the best Delaware and Philadelphia craftsmen in the colonial and federal periods.
• Delaware Archaeology Museum The Delaware Archaeology Museum features local archaeological discoveries, showcasing artifacts, paintings, and photographs covering prehistoric and historic time periods. Artifacts are on display from the Island Field site, a Native American burial site near South Bowers Beach, which was once open as a museum itself but is now closed to the public. Other exhibits in the Archaeology Museum describe the lives of early colonial settlers in Delaware.
• Delaware State Police Museum Visitors to this new museum will be able to see uniforms, firearms, a 1946 Ford patrol car, two antique Harley Davidson motorcycles, a crime scene where visitors look for clues, and a 911 emergency call center. The exhibits explore changes in crime-fighting techniques and technology of the Delaware State Police from 1926 to the present.

Cultural Events

• The Arts in Delaware The Delaware Division of the Arts maintains the Arts in Delaware web site, a state agency committed to promoting and supporting the arts in Delaware. Includes links to arts and cultural organizations, as well as an arts calendar of events.
• Delaware Humanities Forum The Forum fulfills its mission by sponsoring humanities programs and activities and by providing financial and other support to non-profit groups so that they can sponsor their own humanities programs for Delaware audiences. Web site includes calendar of events.
• Kent County Theatre Guild Community theater group presenting 5 shows each season. Welcomes those interested in participating or learning about theatrical presentation.

Museums, Cultural Events and Other Places of Interest
for a Fee

Museums

• Delaware Agricultural Museum & Village The Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village is a private, non-profit organization, dedicated to the preservation of Delaware and Delmarva's rural heritage. The artifacts convey the story of technological growth and change in Delaware and Delmarva's agricultural industries and farm home life through permanent and temporary exhibitions.

Places of Interest

• Parson Thorne Mansion The Parson Thorne Mansion, built between 1730 and 1735, was once home to Milford's founder, Parson Sydenham Thorne, and also to John M. Clayton, noted Delaware statesman. The brick home is unusual, having undergone a transformation in architecture from Colonial, to Georgian, to Victorian during its history. Period antiques and reproductions reflect the changing styles, as the home remained a focal point of Milford.

Parks, Trails, Nature Centers and Wildlife Refugees

Parks and Trails

• Rails to Trails Walking, biking, skating paths by state
• Delaware Greenways Web site features a directory of greenways ideal for hiking and bicycling. Greenways are linear corridors of open space that can be used for either conservation or recreation. The greenway trail provides a safe and enjoyable place to hike and bike.
• Delaware State Parks Includes directory of parks, including recreational activities available at each, as well as a calendar of events search engine.
• Kent County Parks Features a sampling of county and municipal parks run by Dover and Kent County.

Nature Centers and Wildlife Refuges

• Delaware Nature Society Founded in 1964, the Delaware Nature Society, a private, non-profit membership organization, fosters understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of the natural world through education; preserves ecologically significant areas; and advocates stewardship and conservation of natural resources. Web site includes listing of programs offered, as well as a calendar of events.
• Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge Prime Hook NWR is located 22 miles southeast of Dover, Delaware, near the western shore of Delaware Bay. The refuge was established to conserve an important segment of the Delaware Bay marshes, to protect migrating and wintering waterfowl habitat. The refuge is considered to have one of the best existing wetland habitat areas along the Atlantic Coast. Recreational activities include boating, fishing, hiking, hunting, and wildlife viewing.
• St. Jones Estuarine Research Reserve Central Delaware's natural wonders are on display at the St. Jones Estuarine Research Reserve, a state-of-the-art environmental research center on the St. Jones River south of Dover. A new educational center on-site offers hands-on nature programs, children's programs, nature trails, canoe trips and educational boat trips for the public year-round to allow visitors to learn about the tidal St. Jones River. A boardwalk trail winds through the marshes and forests along the river behind the center.