{"id":59945,"date":"2023-01-19T20:15:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T20:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/museum-series-11-hillwood-estate-museum-and-gardens\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T20:45:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T20:45:29","slug":"museum-series-11-hillwood-estate-museum-and-gardens","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/museum-series-11-hillwood-estate-museum-and-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum Talks | Washington, DC #1 Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The first installment of Museum Talks | Washington, DC is featuring the Hillwood Estate, Museum and Garden!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Take a pause with us to enjoy and discover the thrilling collections of the\u00a0<strong>Hillwood<\/strong>, whose history is intertwined with French culture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillwoodmuseum.org\/visit\">Discover the Hillwood Estate, Museum and Garden\u00a0<\/a>&#8211;\u00a0Marjorie Merriweather Post bought Hillwood in 1955 and soon decided her home would be a museum that would inspire and educate the public. Her northwest\u00a0Washington, D.C. estate endowed the country with the most comprehensive collection of Russian imperial art outside of Russia, a distinguished eighteenth-century French decorative art collection, and twenty-five acres of serene landscaped gardens and natural woodlands for all to enjoy. Opened as a public institution in 1977, today Hillwood&#8217;s allure stems from the equally fascinating parts that make up the whole.<\/p>\n\t<a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hUGmh7r16KU\" target=\"\">\n\t\tWatch the replay\t<\/a>\n\t\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Hillwood_2.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Hillwood_2.png 300w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Hillwood_2-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Dr.\u00a0<strong>Wilfried Zeisler<\/strong>\u00a0is Hillwood Estate, Museum &amp; Gardens\u2019 chief curator. He is a graduate of Sorbonne University and the Ecole du Louvre, Paris. Wilfried has written extensively on French and Russian decorative arts, including a 2010 book on French ceramics commemorating the French-Russian Alliance, several articles, and contributions to books. Wilfried\u2019s dissertation,\u202f<em>L\u2019Objet d\u2019art et de luxe fran\u00e7ais en Russie\u202f(1881-1917)<\/em>\u202f[French Objets d\u2019art and Luxury Goods in Russia], was published in Paris in 2014. Since 2009, he has participated in and curated exhibitions in Paris, Monaco, and Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p>At Hillwood, his most recent exhibitions were\u00a0<em>Faberg\u00e9 Rediscovered<\/em>\u00a0(2018),\u00a0<em>Bouke de Vries: War and Pieces<\/em>\u00a0(2019), and\u00a0<em>Natural Beauties: Exquisite Works of Minerals and Gems<\/em>\u00a0(2020). Wilfried co-authored\u00a0<em>Konstantin Makovsky: The Tsar&#8217;s Painter in America and Paris<\/em>\u202f(2015), and is the author of\u00a0<em>Faberg\u00e9 Rediscovered<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Vivre la Belle Epoque \u00e0 Paris &#8212; Paul de Russie et Olga Paley<\/em>, both published in 2018. He is currently working on two book projects, one exploring the connections between the Yusupovs and Parisian culture and the second on the collection of Hillwood\u2019s founder, Marjorie Post (co-authored with Hillwood\u2019s curatorial team).<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":59943,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[236,218],"app_city_tax":[226],"app_event_type":[241],"class_list":["post-59945","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-museums","app_discipline-visual-arts","app_city_tax-dc","app_event_type-talk"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Museum Talks | Washington, DC #1 Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/museum-series-11-hillwood-estate-museum-and-gardens\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Museum Talks | Washington, DC #1 Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The first installment of Museum Talks | Washington, DC is featuring the Hillwood Estate, Museum and Garden! 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