Antiques Discovery Day
August 1, 2021 @ 1:00PM — 5:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
UPDATE: Standby tickets added. If we get ahead of schedule and can fit you in, you can pay on-site (cash, check, or card) and have your items seen.
Have you ever wondered what those family treasures are really worth? The Virginia Highlands Festival, in conjunction with the William King Museum of Art, will conduct an Antiques Discovery Day in which a panel of regional antiques experts will try to identify your family treasures and give you an informal appraisal of their worth.
The lead expert will be Ken Farmer from Radford, Virginia, who has appeared on the popular PBS series "Antiques Roadshow" as a specialist in folk art, furniture, decorative arts and musical instruments. Other regional antiques dealers and experts will aid with Antiques Discovery Day as well.
Betsy White, the Executive Director of the William King Museum of Art, and Katie Edwards, the Curator of Fine and Decorative Arts, will be at the event to document Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee furniture, textiles, and decorative arts for the museum's Cultural Heritage Project archive.