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Alexandria Archaeology Museum, Alexandria, VA
The Alexandria Archaeology Museum is the City of Alexandria, Virginia's community archaeology program. Its exhibits, educational programs, and extensive collections are based on more than 30 years of excavations and research on Alexandria's history.
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Anne Spencer House and Garden Museum, Lynchburg, VA
Annie Bethel Spencer (Lynchburg, Virginia) better known as Anne Spencer (1882-1975) was an American Black poet and active participant in the New Negro Movement and Harlem Renaissance period.
Anne was the first Virginian and first African-American to ha The Queen Anne Style house remains as Anne Spencer left it when she passed away in 1975. The cottage house called "Edankraal" was her writing studio and has photo's of her family and friends from the late 1800's. Her garden is the only
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Avoca Museum, Altavista, VA
Avoca is the homesite of Revolutionary War hero Col. Charles Lynch. Located on 5 acres of the original plantation, Avoca collects, preserves, and interprets the history of Campbell County and surrounding areas. County Victorian house, Civil War exhibition, extensive American Indian artifact collection, Colonial era buildings, Arboretum of native VA trees and plants.
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Black History Museum And Cultural Center, Richmond, VA
"The museum seeks to become a permanent repository for visual, oral and written records and artifacts commemorating the lives and accomplishments of Blacks in Virginia." From BHMCC web pag.
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Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
The Chrysler Museum of Art features European and American collections in sculpture, painting and photography as well as three historic houses and an internationally famous glass collection.
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Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, VA
Historic capital of 18th century Virginia.
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Drop Zone Virtual Museum, Fairfax Station, VA
Dedicated to preserving and sharing WWII airborne history thru oral histories, photos, artifacts. Besides the museum there is a virtual community which enjoys the support of hundreds of WWII veterans and their respective associations.
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Edgar Allen Poe Museum, Richmond, VA
"The Poe Museum provides a retreat into early 19th century Richmone where Edgar Allen Poe lived and worked. The museum features Poe's early life and career by documenting his accomplishments with pictures, relics, and verse, focusing on his many years in Richmond." From EAPM websit.
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Fort Ward Museum and Historic Site, Alexandria, VA
Fort Ward is the best preserved of the system of forts and batteries built to protect Washington, D.C. during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Visitors can view the remains of the earthen fort, the restored Northwest Bastion, the reconstructed Officer's Hut, and museum exhibitions.
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Friendship Firehouse Museum, Alexandria, VA
Alexandria, Virginia's first fire fighting organization, established in 1774. Exhibits interpret the history of fire fighting in Alexandria.
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Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, Staunton, VA
The Frontier Culture Museum is an outdoor, living-history museum and educational institution of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Museum features six outdoor exhibits of original farm buildings from Britain, Germany, and Virginia. The Museum exhibits serve as the settings for interpretative and educational programs to educate visitors about the diverse Old World origins of early immigrants to America, and how their way-of-life on the frontier shaped the success of the USA.
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Gadsby's Tavern Museum, Alexandria, VA
George Washington and several other prominent individuals frequented the two taverns now known as Gadsby's Tavern Museum. Dating from 1770 and 1792, Gadsby's interprets public life in the 18th century.
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Hampton Roads Naval Museum, Norfolk, VA
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HGI Exchange Hotel Civil War Museum, Gordonsville, VA
Civil War hospital in Gordonsville Virginia, featuring Civil War reenactments and other Virginia tourist attractions. Civil War cavalry, Civil War crafts, Civil War battlefield medicine, DR. E. A. Craignhill, telegraph machine, Torbert's Raid, Civil War uniforms, Yankee family momentos
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Historic Alexandria, Virginia, Alexandria, VA
Historic Alexandria includes the Alexandria Archaeology Museum, Alexandria Black History Research Center, FOrt Ward Museum and Historic Site, Friendship Firehouse Museum, Gadsby's Tavern Museum, The Lyceum, and the Torpedo Factory Art Center. Its web site includes teaching tools, kids' activities, and information on research and historic preservation.
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James Madison Museum, Orange, VA
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James Madison Museum, Orange, VA
Museum dedicated to James Madison, 4th President of the United States and Father of the Consitution.
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Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
A collection of 1600 paintings on canvas and eucalyptus bark made by Aboriginal Australian artists. Exhibitions rotate four times a year.
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Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
The Library of Virginia has served the archives and research needs of Virginians since 1823. The Library hosts special exhibits and displays of historic documents and artifacts. The Digital Library Project currently provides access to more than 2 million digital images of historic materials.
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Loudoun Museum, Leesburg, VA
Loudoun Museum chronicles the growth of this history rich county from its Native American inhabitants to the present. Included is a series of letters written in the 1830's between freed slaves who emmigrated to Liberia and their former masters in Virginia, the full text available on-line.
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Lyceum: Alexandria's History Museum, Alexandria, VA
The Lyceum, with its Greek Revival architecture, was the City of Alexandria, Virginia's first intellectual and cultural center. Today it serves as the comprehensive history museum for the City.
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Mariners' Museum, Newport News, VA
Largest International Maritime Museum in America. Great Research Library, staffed with more than a dozen people to help the public. Great online exhibits, and many educational curriculums free for middle school students. Nearly ALL of the 75,000 catalog cards for the Library are online...
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Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center, Christiansburg, VA
Built around 1852 as the Manse for the Presbyterian Church. It is thought the bricks were made on the property. Support beams and joists are hewn oak. The rafters are secured by dowel pins. Our permanent collection includes works by well known local artists, Lewis Miller and Walter Biggs. The art gallery has rotating exhibits and the library has historical and genealogical texts.The museum has historical artifacts related to our region.
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Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, VA
Monticello is the mountaintop house and plantation home of Thomas Jefferson. Designed by Jefferson, the home and gardens reflect the multi-faceted genius of our third president. A guided or self-paced tour of Mulberry Row, the main plantation"street," teaches much about slavery and African- American life at Monticello.
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Mount Vernon, Virginia, VA
The home of the first US President, George Washington.
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Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA
The Muscarelle Museum of Art on the campus of the College of William and Mary is a public institution accredited by the American Association of Museums. It houses a permanent collection of over 3500 art objects and hosts national traveling exhibitions.
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National Maritime Center, Norfolk, VA
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Newseum, Arlington, VA
The Newseum, the world's only interactive news museum, takes visitors behind the scenes to see and experience how and why news is made. At the Newseum, visitors can be television announcers or reporters; relive the great news stories of all time though multimedia exhibits, unique artifacts, and news memorabilia; and see today's news as it happens on a block-long video news wall.
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Oyster & Maritime Museum, Chincoteague, VA
The Oyster & Maritime Museum is the only one of it's kind in the world. it contains historcal information, as well as ecology. The museum also has obtained the orginial First Order Fresnal Lens of Assateague. Visit the online page and visit in person or call for more info!!.
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Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
Changing exhibits by regional artists and period works loaned by other institutions.
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Riddick's Folly House Museum, Suffolk, VA
The 19th century town home mansion of the Riddick family also served as headquarters for the Union Army during its occupation of Suffolk in the Civil War. More than half of the house's original 20 rooms have been restored, complete with period art and furnishings.
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Steamboat Era Museum, Irvington, VA
The Steamboat Era Museum is dedicated to the history of steamboats on the Chesapeake Bay. The online collection includes numerous video-based oral history interviews with persons that lived during the steamboat era that ended on the Cheasapeake Bay in the late 1950s. Also included are exhibits about the Civil War on the Chesapeake Bay.
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Stratford Hall Plantation, Stratford, VA
The Robert E. Lee Memorial Association is dedicated to preservation, research, and education. The Association interprets to the public Stratford Hall and the plantation life of the Lee Family, whose ideals and leadership helped shape democracy in the United States. c1738 plantation was home to the Lees of Virginia. It was the boyhood home of two Declaration of Independence signers, and it was the birthplace of General Robert E. Lee.
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The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar, Richmond, VA
The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar interprets the Civil War, its causes, course, and legacies, from the perspectives of the Union, Confederate, and African American participants. The 8.3-acre site, a National Historic Landmark, is located In the Cause of Liberty, the Center's 10,000-square-foot exhibit, explores the war's causes, course, and legacies from Union, Confederate, and African American perspectives using artifacts and media, and programs. Education programs are compatib
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The National Maritime Center, Norfolk, VA
Nauticus, The National Maritime Center is a science and technology center that explores the naval, economic, and natural power of the sea. The National Maritime Center features hands-on exhibits, NOAA's Science on a Sphere, an imaginative and dynamic 6-foot globe that displays plate tectonics and animated real-time weather data, interactive theaters, large format movies, shark touch, na
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Toaster Museum Foundation, Charlottesville, VA
A site devoted to educating, entertaining, and enlightening visitors about the history and cultural importance of the bread toaster.
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Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
Built in 1918 to manufacture torpedo shell cases, the building is now one of the largest art centers in the world, providing work and exhibition space for more than 155 artists. The Torpedo Factory is also home to five cooperative galleries, a professional art school, and the Alexandria Archaeology Museum.
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United States National Slavery Museum, Fredericksburg, VA
Goal: To open new and exciting vistas of knowledge regarding slavery in America and its impact on our nation....to vitalize and interpret more completely the human drama of slavery in America, serving as the center of learning on slavery.
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
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Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville, VA
Virginia Museum of Natural History is the state museum offering exhibits, programs for adults and children, publications, special events. Seven research scientists on staff.
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The Virtual Library
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