Delaware State Visitor Center

Delaware State Visitor Center and Galleries is located in Dover, Delaware. The visitor center provides knowledgeable staff for visitors, residents, and other travelers to the state. These staff members work to assist anyone who stops by in order to provide them with events, activities, attractions, and other information based on local and state options.

Inside the visitor center is a store with historical artifacts like maps, printed material, gifts, and Delaware souvenirs. The center has its own museum like exhibits for guests to view. The exhibits are based on history of Delaware. They do change the exhibits in order to display different periods of history and culture.

The center is at 406 Federal Street. They are open Tuesday through Saturday 9am to 4:30pm, and Sunday 1:30pm to 4:30pm. They also open on certain holidays based on the First State Heritage Park. Admission is free, as is parking. To keep the center open and to update exhibits they depend on donations and are happy to accept anything given.

An exhibit housed at the Delaware State Visitor Center was "Shipbuilding in the First State." This exhibit showed the history of shipbuilding in Delaware. It also explained the streams, rivers, and creeks that exist today.