Winterthur
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Entertainment for everyone...

In addition to planning your own event at Winterthur, you can take advantage of all that our annual onsite events have to offer your colleagues and clients. Private entertainment opportunities as well as marketing and promotional options exist at each of our three unique major events.

Point-to-Point

GardenFair

Delaware Antiques Show

Point-to-Point

Enjoy the excitement of racing, the elegance of an antique carriage parade, bagpipers in traditional dress, and lots of family fun, all in the glorious setting of an American country estate. Held the first Sunday in May, Point-to-Point is the Brandywine Valley's signature spring event—a day that the Wilmington News Journal called "the best day in Delaware!"

Provide your clients and colleagues with a one-of-a-kind opportunity. Winterthur's Point-to-Point offers the perfect place to entertain clients, business associates, colleagues, family, and friends while showcasing your business to more than 18,000 people in one day! Point-to-Point's corporate sponsors receive numerous benefits—on race day and throughout the year.

Sponsorship opportunities are available at all levels, with exciting benefits to match, including exposure on the Jumboscreen. Contact the Corporate Relations office at 302.888.4687 for information on sponsoring:

  • Races and Pony Races
  • Carriage Parade
  • Parade of the Hounds
  • Bagpipe Parade
  • Kids Craft Corral
  • Steeplechase 101
  • Point-to-Point Flashbacks
  • And more!

Entertainment Packages:

Corporate Tent
$10,000

Entertain up to 150 guests in a private tent 20-foot x 40-foot or 40-foot x 60-foot. Tables, chairs, linens, landscaping, and flowers are all assembled to complement your handpicked menu. Your guests will receive corporate admission wristbands, VIP parking spaces, Racing Forms, shuttle service to and from the garden and museum, and private restroom facilities. Showcase one of Wilmington's greatest traditions for your guests from the perfect vantage point of Corporate Knoll, situated on the north course of the races.

Turf Club
Table of 10 - $2,000

Entertain your guests on Corporate Knoll. Tables, chairs, linens, landscaping, and flowers are all assembled to complement your company's theme. Your guests (10 per table, up to 5 tables) will receive corporate admission wristbands, VIP parking spaces, Racing Forms, shuttle service to and from the garden and museum, and private restroom facilities. Dine in style with a sumptuous buffet, cash or tab bar for your guests, and one of the best views of the racetrack at Point-to-Point!

Winterthur Business Associates Trackside Tent
Winterthur Business Associate Members - $125 per person
Non-Members - $150 per person

More than 100 companies and organizations—from small independent businesses to global leaders—support Winterthur through the Winterthur Business Associates. The Trackside Tent at Point-to-Point is a great way to network with your peers and share the magic of a spring tradition. Tickets include premiere parking, a buffet lunch, full bar, private restroom facilities, activities for kids and access to one of the best views on the course!

GardenFair

Held for three days the third weekend of September, Winterthur Museum & Country Estate and Horticulture Magazine team up for the GardenFair, an autumn plant, tool, and antique sale and event offering everything for the great American garden. GardenFair features new and uncommon plants from select growers from across the country, as well as lectures and demonstrations throughout the weekend.

At GardenFair you and your guests will:

  • Get advice from top experts in the field—like television's favorite gardener P. Allen Smith and Winterthur's garden director Chris Strand—at free lectures and Gardening 101 workshops
  • Meet and exchange ideas with our heroes of horticulture like famed collectors Dan Hinkley (founder of Heronswood Nursery), Tony Avent (Plant Delights Nursery), Roy Klehm (Song Sparrow Nursery), garden maker and author Page Dickey and more
  • Tour Winterthur's period rooms and galleries featuring special floral themes and displays
  • Discover the finest garden ornaments and unique garden furniture
  • Immerse yourselves in the naturalistic beauty of the Winterthur Garden
  • And so much more!

Sponsorship opportunities are available at all levels, with exciting benefits to match. Contact the Corporate Relations office at 302.888.4687 for information on sponsoring:

  • Antiques in Bloom: a floral tour of Winterthur
  • GardenFair Demo Stage
  • GardenFair Lecture Stage
  • The GardenFair Beer Garden!
  • Plant Park the plant valet for all your purchases
  • Vendor Hospitality
  • And more!

Delaware Antiques Show

The Delaware Antiques Show features 60 of the country's most distinguished dealers in American antiques, furniture, paintings, rugs, porcelain, silver, jewelry, and other decorative arts. Located at the Chase Center on the Riverfront in Wilmington, the Delaware antiques Show attracts an impressive audience of collectors and enthusiasts who have come to rely on the high caliber and quality of the Show's offering in it's 42-year history. The Delaware Antiques Show is held the second full weekend in November (Friday-Sunday with a preview Thursday evening).

As a sponsor of the Delaware Antiques Show, you will expose your company's brand to an educated, discerning audience with a high average household income. Sponsorship opportunities are available at all levels, with exciting benefits to match. Contact the Corporate Relations office at 302.888.4687 for information on sponsoring:

  • The Delaware Antiques Show Preview Party
  • The Annual Loan Exhibition
  • Dealer and Collector's Circle Hospitality
  • Special Lectures
  • Program Advertisement
  • And more!