Founded by American collector and heiress to the Post cereal empire Marjorie Merriweather Post, Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens is one of the premier art collector's museums in the United States.
The museum features the most comprehensive collection of Russian imperial art outside of Russia and a world-renowned collection of Eighteenth-Century French decorative art and furnishings.
The collection includes Fabergé eggs,
Russian porcelain, Russian Orthodox icons, Beauvais tapestries, and Sèvres porcelain.
Encircled by woodlands, the twenty-five acre estate provides visitors a tranquil oasis of luscious formal gardens.
The museum features the most comprehensive collection of Russian imperial art outside of Russia and a world-renowned collection of Eighteenth-Century French decorative art and furnishings.
Catherine the Great Egg. |
Catherine the Great |
Encircled by woodlands, the twenty-five acre estate provides visitors a tranquil oasis of luscious formal gardens.
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