Museums in Virginia

The Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia in Charleston, West Virginia, USA is a 240,000-square-foot (22,000 m2) facility dedicated to promoting performing arts, visual arts, and the sciences. All three being housed under one roof makes the Clay Center one of the few of its kind read more

Charleston is the oldest and second-largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston–Summerville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina’s coastline and is located on Charleston Harbor, read more

The Key West Heritage House Museum and Robert Frost Cottage, also known as the Jessie Porter’s Heritage House Museum and Robert Frost Cottage, is a museum located at 410 Caroline Street, Key West, Florida.The museum contains six generations of grand furnishings and Key West artifacts. The Heritage House was the read more

The Arlington Historical Museum in Arlington, Virginia houses 350,000 artifacts on rotating display. Its exhibits interpret the history of the area from Captain John Smith’s encounter with Algonquin Native Americans in 1608 to the near-present, including a letter exchange between local students and Ronald Reagan following the assassination attempt on read more

The Virginia Air and Space Center is a museum and educational facility in Hampton, Virginia that also serves as the visitors center for NASA’s Langley Research Center and Langley Air Force Base. The museum also features the first institutional IMAX digital theater in the world, and offers summer aeronautic and read more

The Museum of the Confederacy encompasses museums in Richmond and Appomattox, Virginia as well as the historic home which served as the White House of the Confederacy adjacent to the Richmond museum. It maintains a comprehensive collection of artifacts, manuscripts, Confederate imprints (books and pamphlets), and photographs from the Confederate read more

The Chrysler Museum of Art is an art museum on the border between downtown and the Ghent district of Norfolk, Virginia. The museum was originally 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 read more