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The museum’s signature exhibition, The Story of Virginia, covers Native American tribes prior to European colonization, colonization and the Revolutionary War, slavery and the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Civil Rights movement and more up to the present day. Visit daily between 10 am and 5 pm.
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- Early Years
- War and Recovery
- Finding A Home
- Battle Abbey
- A Beacon of International Scholarship
- Telling Virginia’s Story
- Home For History
- History Matters: The Story of Virginia For All Virginians
- Planning For America's 250th
The society was founded in 1831. Like most of the nation’s older historical societies, it has always been a private organization and derives virtually all its support from membership and endowment. The Virginia Historical Society elected Chief Justice John Marshall as its first president and former president James Madison its first honorary member....
During the Civil War, the historical society's collections were moved from place to place, with the result that many valuable items disappeared. The society invested its entire endowment—$5,000—in Confederate bonds, so it, too, was lost. In 1870, the Virginia Historical Society was reorganized and attempted to reassemble its scattered collections. ...
Under new leadership, in 1893 the society, for the first time, occupied its own building, 707 East Franklin Street. Today this location is known as the Lee House because it had served as the wartime home of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s family. Just one month after its move, the society published the first issue of the quarterly journal, Virginia Magazine o...
The Virginia Historical Society acquired Battle Abbey in 1946 from the struggling Confederate Memorial Association. The cornerstone of Battle Abbey (as the building came to be known) was laid in 1912, but the opening of the building was delayed by the First World War and Charles Hoffbauer’s determination to repaint the murals in the Mural Gallery t...
During the decades 1960–80, the Virginia Historical Society’s collections grew to a remarkable degree, the publications program became more active, and increased numbers of researchers consulted the Society's resources. Devoting itself almost entirely to the academic community, the society eventually became a beacon of international scholarship in ...
With the arrival of Dr. Charles F. Bryan, Jr. in 1988, the historical society began another era of growth and progress — remaining committed to scholarship but also focusing increasingly on public engagement. In June 1992, after expanding the headquarters building, the historical society reopened as the Center for Virginia History. It embraced a br...
In 2004 the board announced the 175th Anniversary Campaign: Home for History. The most visible component of this effort was another new wing completed in early 2006. This addition of 54,000 square feet includes a 500-seat auditorium, new exhibition space, a state-of-the-art classroom, and enough space to house the next twenty years’ worth of antici...
In 2018, following the arrival of a new President & CEO, Jamie O. Bosket, and after a year of research, community conversation, and strategic planning, the Virginia Historical Society announced a new vision and a new name for its facility on Arthur Ashe Boulevard in Richmond—The Virginia Museum of History & Culture. This historic change ushered in ...
Following several years of work by the VMHC to convene history organizations from across the Commonwealth, the Virginia General Assembly established a state commission for the planning of America’s 250th in Virginia. The General Assembly named the VMHC as the state commission’s primary non-state agency partner and dedicated a leadership role on the...
May 15, 2019 · The Richmond-based Virginia Museum of History and Culture (VMHC), formerly the Virginia Historical Society, is a wonderful first stop before touring the Historic Triangle of Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown or before your visits to the Civil War battlefields.
Take your group or students on a field trip through 16,000 years of Virginia history with a visit to the Virginia Museum of History & Culture, book a virtual HistoryConnects program with one of our educators and let us visit you, or participate in a project-based research opportunity in your class! We offer educational opportunities and ...
The Virginia Museum of History & Culture is located at 428 N Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, Virginia 23220 in Richmond's Museum District. Currently Closed for Construction: Regular hours resume July 1.
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The Virginia Museum of History and Culture founded in 1831 as the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, is a major repository, research, and teaching center for Virginia history. It is a private, non-profit organization, supported almost entirely by private contributions.
