The George Washington Foundation

The education department provides educational programs for learners of all ages and abilities by offering daily tours for visitors to the properties, station-based field trips for school groups, special events for the general public, and summer camps for young learners. The department also offers programs to make the museum accessible and a more enriching learning experience to all.

The curatorial department documents, researches, conserves and interprets the foundation's collections of 18th and 19th century objects and manuscripts, the most important of which is kenmore, the georgian house built by betty and fielding lewis in the 18th century. As such, the curatorial department is also responsible for any preservation-based maintenance, repair or restoration necessary at kenmore, including the monitoring of the interior environmental control systems. These responsibilities are carried out in consultation with the properties department.

The garden and historic landscape department maintains the formal gardens at kenmore under the agreement with the restoration committee guidelines of the garden club of virginia. The department provides special garden tours to visitors interested in the history of kenmore gardens and landscapes. The department also routinely canvasses all properties for any landscape issues that may occur and designs and maintains seasonal interpretive gardens at ferry farm.

Other expenses to support the mission of the george washington foundation.