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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 ...
Shoal Creek Living History Museum, Kansas City; Montana. Daniels County Museum & Pioneer Town, Scobey; Nevada City Living History Museum, Virginia City; New Hampshire. Fort at Number 4, Charlestown; Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth; New Jersey. Allaire Village, Wall Township; Historic Cold Spring Village, Cape May; Longstreet Farm, Holmdel Township ...
The VMFA has its origins in a 1919 donation of 50 paintings to the Commonwealth of Virginia by Judge John Barton Payne.During the Great Depression, Payne collaborated with Virginia Governor John Garland Pollard to gain funding from the federal Works Projects Administration under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to augment state funding and establish the state art museum in 1932. [7]
The museum hosts exhibitions, educational programs and subsidized studio spaces, and seeks to increase awareness, appreciation of, and involvement in the visual arts in Arlington County and the Washington metropolitan area. At 17,000 square feet, the facility includes nine exhibition galleries, working studios for twelve artists and two ...
Two-story indoor exhibit of a cypress swamp at the museum. The main building features animals living in several exhibits that depict the many environments of Virginia, including the coastal plain, a 30,000 US gallons (110,000 L) Chesapeake Bay exhibit, the Piedmont, an Appalachian Mountain cove, a cypress swamp, and underground, as well as a gallery of nocturnal life.
In November 1985, a flood damaged the museum and much of its collection. [3] In April 1986, the museum was re-opened at the former Norfolk & Western Railway Freight Station in downtown Roanoke as the Virginia Museum of Transportation, recognized by the General Assembly of Virginia as the Commonwealth's official transportation museum. Under the ...
The Eastern Shore Railway Museum is located at 18568 Dunne Avenue, Parksley, Virginia, United States. The museum exhibits historic trains and equipment. [ 1 ] The museum also contains a restored train station with railroad memorabilia from the lines that operated on the Eastern Shore of Virginia .
The museum features rotating exhibits on the lower level and permanent exhibits on the upper level including a Science On a Sphere installation. [2] Other science themes include biology, gravity, friction, force, light and magnetism. The Estelle H. Womack Natural History Collection of taxidermied animal mounts and exhibits on the area's rail ...