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Museum housed in a train depot featuring railroad memorabilia, including a model train exhibit and antique railroad cars. Artifacts from the many railroads that have operated on the Delmarva Peninsula since the mid-1800s.
Museum housed in a train depot featuring railroad memorabilia, including a model train exhibit and antique railroad cars. Artifacts from the many railroads that have operated on the Delmarva Peninsula since the mid-1800s.
Community oriented fine arts organization. Presents exhibits, workshops & classes, poetry open mics, performances and other programs.
Community oriented fine arts organization. Presents exhibits, workshops & classes, poetry open mics, performances and other programs.
Tours through historic house; orientation for visitors to Maggie Walker's legacy to African American heritage and the greater community. Program is accessible by bus and internally accessible for the handicapped.
Tours through historic house; orientation for visitors to Maggie Walker's legacy to African American heritage and the greater community. Program is accessible by bus and internally accessible for the handicapped.
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Historic Preservation
Museums
A chronological arrangement of exhibits show how a unique geology and the presence of salt have influenced the area for millions of years. The museum displays locally recovered artifacts and fossils from the Ice Age to the Civil War and the Industrial Age. The Saltville Exhibit Hall features changing displays focusing on more local historic and cultural topics. Step back through time! Seventeen permanent exhibits feature regional geology, Woodland Indian culture, Ice Age fossils, Salt and the Civil War, Company Town culture, and more. The Museum Store offers unique stoneware, T-shirts, fossils, educational toys, old photographs of the region, a large array of books on local history, and many other items related to the natural and cultural history of the Middle Appalachians.
A chronological arrangement of exhibits show how a unique geology and the presence of salt have influenced the area for millions of years. The museum displays locally recovered artifacts and fossils from the Ice Age to the Civil War and the Industrial Age. The Saltville Exhibit Hall features changing displays focusing on more local historic and cultural topics. Step back through time! Seventeen permanent exhibits feature regional geology, Woodland Indian culture, Ice Age fossils, Salt and the Civil War, Company Town culture, and more. The Museum Store offers unique stoneware, T-shirts, fossils, educational toys, old photographs of the region, a large array of books on local history, and many other items related to the natural and cultural history of the Middle Appalachians.
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Museums
Historic Preservation
Collect, preserve, and interpret the history of Amherst County through permanent and temporary exhibits. Also has research library and gift shop.
Collect, preserve, and interpret the history of Amherst County through permanent and temporary exhibits. Also has research library and gift shop.
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Museums
Historic Preservation
Located in the historic Williams-Brown House of Longwood Park, the Salem Museum serves the community by preserving the past, informing the future. Through exhibits, publications, programs, special events and vital preservation efforts, the Salem Historical Society works to keep the vibrant past of Salem and the Roanoke Valley alive. Maintains an important collection of local artifacts including Native American pieces recovered from an early Indian settlement, relics of the Civil War, and mementos of daily life from the span of Salem's history. Sponsors a rotating gallery of local artwork, publishes substantive books and articles related to local history, hosts workshops and programs, and maintains a historic herb garden.
Located in the historic Williams-Brown House of Longwood Park, the Salem Museum serves the community by preserving the past, informing the future. Through exhibits, publications, programs, special events and vital preservation efforts, the Salem Historical Society works to keep the vibrant past of Salem and the Roanoke Valley alive. Maintains an important collection of local artifacts including Native American pieces recovered from an early Indian settlement, relics of the Civil War, and mementos of daily life from the span of Salem's history. Sponsors a rotating gallery of local artwork, publishes substantive books and articles related to local history, hosts workshops and programs, and maintains a historic herb garden.
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Arts Centers
Historic Preservation
Museums
Arts and Culture Volunteer Opportunities
Provides the public with exhibits, educational program and the history of the J. Thomas Newsome family and the expression of African American culture and historical themes.
Provides the public with exhibits, educational program and the history of the J. Thomas Newsome family and the expression of African American culture and historical themes.
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Historic Preservation
Museums
Encompasses the functions of an art museum but is broader in scope and more of a hybrid non-profit, permanent cultural institution. The collections form one of many equivalent cores around which exhibitions and educational programs are organized. The art center serves as a focal point of social and cultural engagement, a sort of 'town hall' for the arts. It is the ideas and experiences, educational initiatives and learning environments, and community engagement and collaboration that form the core of the art center.
Encompasses the functions of an art museum but is broader in scope and more of a hybrid non-profit, permanent cultural institution. The collections form one of many equivalent cores around which exhibitions and educational programs are organized. The art center serves as a focal point of social and cultural engagement, a sort of 'town hall' for the arts. It is the ideas and experiences, educational initiatives and learning environments, and community engagement and collaboration that form the core of the art center.
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Arts Centers
Museums
Offers exhibts including Black Hawk's peace pipe, Civil War exhibits, a scale model railroad and Jefferson Davis' prison cell. Offers exploration of the history of Coast Artillery Corps. Gift shop and walking tours available.
Offers exhibts including Black Hawk's peace pipe, Civil War exhibits, a scale model railroad and Jefferson Davis' prison cell. Offers exploration of the history of Coast Artillery Corps. Gift shop and walking tours available.
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Historic Preservation
Museums
First library that Portsmouth's African American citizens could use.
First library that Portsmouth's African American citizens could use.
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Museums
Historic Preservation
Cultural Heritage Programs
Promotes an interest in the broad spectrum of history with emphasis on that of southwestern Virginia; collects, preserves, interprets, and makes available materials relating to that history; sponsors research and publication in the field of regional history; and provides educational services to people and institutions throughout southwestern Virginia.
Promotes an interest in the broad spectrum of history with emphasis on that of southwestern Virginia; collects, preserves, interprets, and makes available materials relating to that history; sponsors research and publication in the field of regional history; and provides educational services to people and institutions throughout southwestern Virginia.
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Museums
Historic Preservation
Provides a Civil War Medical Museum open to the public.
Provides a Civil War Medical Museum open to the public.
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Historic Preservation
Cultural Heritage Programs
Museums
Operates Point of Honor, the Lynchburg Museum at the Old Court House and the Miller-Claytor House. Historical tours of Lynchburg Museum at the Old Court House and at Point of Honor. Special educational programs, research collections, and facilities available to qualified patrons.
Operates Point of Honor, the Lynchburg Museum at the Old Court House and the Miller-Claytor House. Historical tours of Lynchburg Museum at the Old Court House and at Point of Honor. Special educational programs, research collections, and facilities available to qualified patrons.
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Historic Preservation
Museums
Offers early 20th century Arts-and-Crafts style estate. Featuring 12 acres of gardens and art collections spanning 5,000 years. In addition, offers a permanent collection and gardens, exhibition galleries, working artist studios, art classes, camps, and an assortment of family programming.
Offers early 20th century Arts-and-Crafts style estate. Featuring 12 acres of gardens and art collections spanning 5,000 years. In addition, offers a permanent collection and gardens, exhibition galleries, working artist studios, art classes, camps, and an assortment of family programming.
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Cultural Heritage Programs
Museums
Provides regularly changing exhibitions featuring painting, sculpture, photography, glass, video and other visual media.
Provides regularly changing exhibitions featuring painting, sculpture, photography, glass, video and other visual media.
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Artist Services
Museums
Cultural Heritage Programs
Museum with exhibits about the history of the City of Suffolk. Reenactments and tours are also available at the museum.
Museum with exhibits about the history of the City of Suffolk. Reenactments and tours are also available at the museum.
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Historic Preservation
Museums
To preserve and present the Folk Life of the Blue Ridge. Official State center for Blue Ridge Folk Life. Working farm museum, 1800 period, Interpretive program. Rare breed farm animals. Blue Ridge Heritage Archive, Offices, Exhibit Rooms. Interpreter prepares meals over the open hearth, bake in an outdoor oven and carry out other period tasks amid heirloom vegetable gardens and early breeds of livestock.
To preserve and present the Folk Life of the Blue Ridge. Official State center for Blue Ridge Folk Life. Working farm museum, 1800 period, Interpretive program. Rare breed farm animals. Blue Ridge Heritage Archive, Offices, Exhibit Rooms. Interpreter prepares meals over the open hearth, bake in an outdoor oven and carry out other period tasks amid heirloom vegetable gardens and early breeds of livestock.
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Historic Preservation
Museums
Museum and research center presenting historical exhibits and educational programs concerning the life and times of General Douglas MacArthur and all Americans who served in the armed forces during World Wars I and II and the Korean War.
Museum and research center presenting historical exhibits and educational programs concerning the life and times of General Douglas MacArthur and all Americans who served in the armed forces during World Wars I and II and the Korean War.
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Historic Preservation
Museums
Provides displays of art and artifacts documenting migratory wildfowl that pass through Eastern Virginia.
Provides displays of art and artifacts documenting migratory wildfowl that pass through Eastern Virginia.
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Historic Preservation
Museums
Collect, preserve and interpret objects of historical significance to Bedford (Liberty) and Bedford County. Operates a Genealogy Library.
Collect, preserve and interpret objects of historical significance to Bedford (Liberty) and Bedford County. Operates a Genealogy Library.
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Historic Preservation
Museums
Provides exhibits devoted entirely to the history of U.S. Army transportation from colonial days to the present.
Provides exhibits devoted entirely to the history of U.S. Army transportation from colonial days to the present.
The Charles H. Taylor Arts Center hosts a series of changing exhibitions throughout the year. Many of the area's leading arts organization partner with the Hampton Arts Commission in the presentation of annual exhibitions. Also offers a variety of art classes for children and adults.
The Charles H. Taylor Arts Center hosts a series of changing exhibitions throughout the year. Many of the area's leading arts organization partner with the Hampton Arts Commission in the presentation of annual exhibitions. Also offers a variety of art classes for children and adults.
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Museums
Artist Services
Cultural Heritage Programs
The museum provides a hands-on learning experience for children ages 0-8 and features 15 hands-on educational play areas over 6,000 square feet of exhibit space. Each exhibit is designed to engage children cognitively, physically, and socially, and our staff seeks to foster an environment in which children learn through exploratory and imaginative play and collaborative problem-solving.
The museum provides a hands-on learning experience for children ages 0-8 and features 15 hands-on educational play areas over 6,000 square feet of exhibit space. Each exhibit is designed to engage children cognitively, physically, and socially, and our staff seeks to foster an environment in which children learn through exploratory and imaginative play and collaborative problem-solving.
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Historic Preservation
Museums
The Chrysler Museum has fifty galleries, a growing collection of more than 35,000 objects, an interactive space for families, and the only glass studio of its kind in the Mid-Atlantic region.
The Chrysler Museum has fifty galleries, a growing collection of more than 35,000 objects, an interactive space for families, and the only glass studio of its kind in the Mid-Atlantic region.
The Museum tells the story of a Pocahontas descendant who did more than just marry Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States. When a stroke left the President incapacitated, she helped shield him from Congress and the public. Because of her extensive involvement during this time, she has been referred to by historians as "The First Woman President." At the Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Museum discover how she was indeed a woman of all times.
The Museum tells the story of a Pocahontas descendant who did more than just marry Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States. When a stroke left the President incapacitated, she helped shield him from Congress and the public. Because of her extensive involvement during this time, she has been referred to by historians as "The First Woman President." At the Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Museum discover how she was indeed a woman of all times.