Another ‘Swift’ Summer In Store For Stone Harbor Museum

Posted June 23rd 2025

New exhibits are now open at the Stone Harbor Museum this summer, and the Taylor Swift exhibit is back for a second year, which means the museum can expect another busy summer.

Last year’s display features items donated by Swift and her family, and this year’s expanded exhibit offers an entirely new collection that showcases new research and photos of Swift’s life on the island.

“Typically, we have between 300 and 1,500 visitors a summer,” said museum curator Katie Hinchey-Wise. “Last year we had 7,000 because of the Swift family’s generous donation.”

But that’s not all the museum has to offer this year.

“We look at what the history of Stone Harbor is, and we try to make it fun in a different way,” museum president Teri Fischer said about the new exhibits this year.

For example, there are several items on loan from the Pearl S. Buck House in Perkasie, Pa.

Buck was a prominent novelist and writer who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for her book “The Good Earth.”

“She owned her home in Stone Harbor from 1956 to 1962,” Hinchey-Wise noted, “and she is the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.”

Historical photos and postcards of Stone Harbor from the new Davis Collection are seen throughout the museum as well. Paul Preston Davis, from Wilmington, Del., was an avid collector who died in 2021 at age 89.

Last year, members of his family visited the museum and “asked if we would like all of this,” Hinchey-Wise recalled while looking at the collection.

Aside from the exhibits, there is also a sponsored scavenger hunt for kids every week.

“You can’t keep a museum going without having the youth involved. It just doesn’t work,” Fischer said. “The children last year were driving their parents and grandparents into the museum.”

The museum opened over Memorial Day weekend, and admission is free. It is open Monday to Saturday from 9am to noon.