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The Fifth and Main Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located in downtown Richmond, Virginia. The district encompasses 38 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object located south of the Grace Street Commercial Historic District. It reflects the core of the city's early-20th century retail development.
The Grace Street Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located in Richmond, Virginia. The district encompasses 93 contributing buildings located in downtown Richmond. The buildings reflect the core of the city's early 20th-century retail development and the remnants of a 19th-century residential neighborhood.
The historical society's headquarters was renamed from Virginia Historical Society to the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in 2018. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The museum features exhibitions and programming for visitors of all ages and has more than 25,000 square feet (2,300 m 2 ) of exhibition gallery space and the largest display of Virginia artifacts ...
December 13, 1978 (4305 Sulgrave Rd. 3: The Almshouse: The Almshouse: October 29, 1981 (210 Hospital St. 4: American Tobacco Company, South Richmond Complex Historic District
From the 1800s, downtown Richmond was a booming city, one of the largest in the nation, and a major player in the slave trade market. The district now known as Shockoe Bottom was the largest and most famous slave trade market in the entire nation, with people traveling from the South to trade, purchase, or sell slaves.
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.
A History of Richmond in 50 Objects, [22] opened on February 14, 2014 in the Massey Gallery on the main floor of the museum. History Ink: The Tattoo Archive Project, [23] ran from November 2, 2012 to March 31, 2013; it focused on the rising popularity of tattoos in American culture and locally in Richmond.
The Museum District, alternately known as West of the Boulevard, [3] is a neighborhood in the city of Richmond, Virginia. It is anchored by the contiguous six-block tract of museums along the west side of Boulevard , including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Virginia Museum of History & Culture , hence the name.