The Preservation Society offers many learning opportunities, designed to present its houses and collections to a broad and diverse audience in as many interesting and enlightening ways as possible.  These programs include international symposia and forums, study days, lectures, workshops, films, tours, and more.  Programs are offered year-round throughout the Society' s historic properties and its grounds. 

The Gilded Age Revisited:   This section offers the results of new research into The Breakers and its role as a landmark of a critical period in American history and design.

Preserving Chateau-sur-Mer: A Great Victorian House: Learn more here about this critical ongoing restoration process.

Conservation Projects:  Here you'll find brief updates about conservation projects of interest, offering insights into the technical expertise and research involved in protecting our collections.

The Newport Symposium is an international forum for the study and discussion of a diverse range of arts and historical issues. The audience consists of academics, collectors, major donors to and trustees of museums and arts foundations, museum directors and curators, and professional furniture appraisers and art dealers.

A calendar of specific events can be found under Events Calendar.

For teachers, the Preservation Society offers Resource Guides to accompany student tours of the mansions.

History Highlights focuses on recent exhibits and other research conducted by Preservation Society staff.

Research Reports offer more in-depth information about various topics related to the mansions and the lifestyles of the people who lived and worked in them.

Some of the expert presentations by the Preservation Society's historians, curators and conservators at symposia and conferences around the world are shared in Scholarly Papers.

For more information about Newport history, architecture and people, as well as preservation resources, see our Reading List.