Fall Homeschool Open House

Join us for a day of free homeschool fun from 10 am to 5 pm.

Virginia History Day Workshop (10:30 to 11:30 am)

Learn more about Virginia History Day – a student led research project with competitions throughout the state that can lead to national prizes! Think a science fair…but for history. The 2026 theme is “Revolution, Reaction, & Reform” and is open to 4th-12th grade students.

Virginia’s 250th Anniversary Mobile Museum

A hands-on, interactive, and immersive “museum on wheels,” the VA250 Mobile Museum Experience titled “Out of Many, One” is housed in a quad-expandable tractor trailer that is traveling throughout Virginia and beyond.

Exhibits

Explore our temporary anniversary, “Give Me Liberty: Virginia & the Forging of a Nation” to learn more about the role that Virginians played in the American Revolution. All other exhibits are also open to visitors.

Crafts & Stories

Read stories and complete crafts that connect to our exhibitions! Try your hand at making a tricorn hat & rosette cockade, your very own ball & cup game, and even design your own stamp after learning more about the Stamp Act in the exhibit upstairs. Please Note – Crafts are first come, first served and may run out towards the end of the day.

Living History Interpreter

Chat with a living history interpreter about what life was like for a soldier during the mid-1700s!

Hands-On Stations

Stop by and touch our replica artifacts to learn about popular 18th century games, as well as smell popular examples of herbs & spices that would have been used by soldiers for medicinal remedies. Please Note: these stations will end at 2:00.

Scavenger Hunts

Completed scavenger hunts get a 10% discount in our café or shop! (one discount per adult)

Introductory Film

Our 15-minute Virginia History overview film is a great way to begin or end your experience at the museum! It plays every twenty minutes (on the hour, twenty past, forty past, on the hour)