Museum & Historic House
From Family Estate to Renowned Museum
Completed in 1917, Reynolda House Museum of American Art was originally the home of Katharine Smith and R.J. Reynolds, founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Promising a healthier lifestyle, the more than 34,000-square-foot historic home was the centerpiece of a 1,067-acre estate and model farm. Now on the National Register of Historic Places, the Reynolds family’s 64-room historic house stands as one of the few well-preserved, surviving examples of the American Country House movement.
Inside, you’ll find not only more than 6,000 historic objects, but also a collection of world-renowned American art on view in the historic house and special exhibitions in the Babcock Gallery. Spanning 250 years, the collection is a chronology of American art, and features artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Frederic Edwin Church, Alexander Calder, Romare Bearden, Lee Krasner, Stuart Davis, Martin Johnson Heade, Jacob Lawrence, John Singer Sargent, Andy Warhol and Grant Wood. Works rotate throughout the historic house frequently, and the Museum keeps a listing of current works of American art on view here. View a listing of decorative arts on view here.
Special exhibitions take place seasonally in the Babcock Gallery. View our current and upcoming exhibitions here.
Find Your Way
For the Curious
VIEW EVENTS CALENDAR
Aug 24, 2024 — Dec 15, 2024
Barbara Babcock Millhouse has dedicated much of her life to untangling the mysterious ways in which art functions. Since the dedication of Reynolda House in 1967, she has guided the development of one…
Feb 22, 2022 — Dec 31, 2025
Discover the lives of the Black women and men who helped shape Reynolda as it evolved from a Jim Crow era working estate into a museum.
Oct 20, 2023 — Oct 27, 2024
Portraits are often taken at face value—as accurate representations of a person’s appearance, sometimes removed by decades or centuries. But portraits are often the products of delicate negotiatio…
Ongoing, 10:00am
Join us in the Gardens to learn more about the natural world around us. Each session will engage a young naturalist in hands-on learning as we closely study a topic while enjoying the Gardens and Grou…
Sep 8, 2024, 2:00pm
Take a box, add a range of objects and colors with personal or symbolic meaning, and create a shadowbox sculpture. Participants in this workshop will make their own wall (or shelf!) sculpture to take …
Sep 28, 2024, 8:00am
Autumn is the time for planting and Reynolda’s fall plant sale is a popular opportunity to purchase a great selection of native plants as well as a smattering of staff favorites. Friends of Reynolda…
