EDA Annual Report 2013-2014

Edward-Dean Museum & Gardens

New Additions • Dickens at the Dean was introduced and will become an annual event at the Museum. • Summer Camps for kids are a new addition to the museum. For a nominal fee, participants learn about art, nature and science. A Shakespeare camp was offered this summer as a result of a continued collaboration with student body and faculty members of Mt. San Jacinto College.

The Riverside County EDA oversees the Edward-Dean Museum & Gardens. Opened in 1958, the facility was founded by Edward Eberle and Dean Stout. The museum features late 16th to early 19th century European & Asian Decorative Arts. Dean Stout designed the interior spaces of the museum to create a home-like atmosphere with the intent to share with the visitor a first- hand experience of the ambiance of the time period. The museum and its 16- acre campus originally came under the County in 1964. The Edward-Dean Museum & Gardens provided free educational tours to over 400 students from schools all over the Inland Empire. The Museum is also active in the community with a variety of volunteers and interns that participate in helping host special events, as well as maintain the grounds and help set up and present each new gallery exhibit. An additional program of providing active stewardship allows the conservation of Museum Paintings. The Museum also held the annual Rhythms of the East, Bridal Show and Appraisal Fair exhibit.

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