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This list of museums in Virginia, United States, contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Chrysler Museum of Art is an art museum on the border between downtown and the Ghent district of Norfolk, Virginia. The museum was founded in 1933 as the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences . In 1971, automotive heir, Walter P. Chrysler Jr. (whose wife, Jean Outland Chrysler , was a native of Norfolk), donated most of his extensive ...
Museums in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. Pages in category "Museums in Norfolk, Virginia" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Norfolk Museums Service (NMS), formerly Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service (NMAS), [1] is a county-wide museums service that presides over ten museums in Norfolk, operated by Norfolk County Council and headed by the council's Director of Culture and Heritage, Steve Miller. [2]
During the 1980s, the city of Norfolk invited the museum to relocate to a new downtown maritime center. The Navy accepted the offer, and in 1994 the Hampton Roads Naval Museum opened in the Nauticus National Maritime Center. With the move, the museum's exhibit space increased significantly, while also increasing the number of educational ...
Hunter House Victorian Museum (2024) The Hunter House Victorian Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, United States is a house museum in the Historic Freemason District. [1]The house was built in 1894 for the merchant and banker James Wilson Hunter, together with his wife Lizzie Ayer Barnes Hunter and their three children. [2]
The ship was decommissioned at Philadelphia and retired to the Naval Inactive Reserve Fleet in Portsmouth, Virginia, in October 1996. On April 16, 2010, exactly 66 years from the day she was commissioned at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, the United States Navy ceremoniously transferred ownership of the vessel to the city of Norfolk, Virginia.
Location of Norfolk in Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Norfolk, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be ...