A Better Life For Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America

Virginia Museum of History & Culture 428 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, VA

Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington forged one of the earliest collaborations between Jews and African Americans to create schools throughout the nation for Black children who had no access to publicly funded education. From 1912 to 1937, the Rosenwald schools program built thousands of schools, shops, and teacher’s homes across 15 Southern states. For ...

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Event Series Stories at the Museum

Stories at the Museum

Virginia Museum of History & Culture 428 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, VA

Aimed at early elementary learners, this educator led Stories at the Museum program will feature a read-aloud story time in a related museum gallery, paired with a craft activity. Your Stories at the Museum ticket includes admission (please purchase a ticket for each member of your party), so feel free to stay afterwards and enjoy ...

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Traveling Bricks: An Exhibtion Made of LEGO Bricks

Virginia Museum of History & Culture 428 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, VA

As the LEGO Group opens its first and only U.S. manufacturing plant in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Embark an exciting journey through transportation history—one brick at a time. In its first continental United States appearance, this exhibition features more than 100 models of iconic land, air, sea, and space vehicles constructed from nearly 1 million ...

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Collections Up Close: Snapped! Tales of Murder and Mayhem

Virginia Museum of History & Culture 428 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, VA

In this series, VMHC staff curate displays featuring some of the museum’s millions of artifacts and manuscripts that are not currently on exhibit. In addition to a themed presentation, guests are led on an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the museum’s storage areas to examine the museum’s collection up close while interacting with VMHC staff members. ...

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The Constitution of Virginia—Then and Now

Virginia Museum of History & Culture 428 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, VA

The same month and year that a Virginian drafted the Declaration of Independence, Virginians wrote and ratified the original Constitution of Virginia, a document that parallels America’s road to and from the Revolution. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of emeritus University of Virginia Law Professor A.E. Dick Howard’s seminal work, "Commentaries ...

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Fall Homeschool Open House

Virginia Museum of History & Culture 428 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, VA

Join VMHC Education for a free Homeschool Open House. ...

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Trick or Treat at VMHC

Virginia Museum of History & Culture 428 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, VA

Participating partners will set up spooky stations throughout the museum for kids to safely trick or treat for candy and other free giveaways. There will also be crafts, games, a Halloween band, bounce house, trackless train, chocolate making demos, and free museum admission, which includes access to Traveling Bricks, an exhibition made of LEGO bricks. ...

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Virginia Vines

Virginia Museum of History & Culture 428 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, VA

Celebrate Virginia wine month with the this wine festival. ...

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Event Series First Fridays at the VMHC

First Fridays at the VMHC

Virginia Museum of History & Culture 428 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, VA

On the first Friday of each month, the museum will stay open later for this family-friendly event. The museum will offer free admission to the galleries, specials in the Café, access to food trucks, live music, and family-centered activities. ...

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Scientist Turned Spy

Virginia Museum of History & Culture 428 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, VA

André Michaux was one of the most accomplished scientific explorers of North America before Lewis and Clark.  But there is more to his story. During his decade-long American sojourn, Michaux found himself thrust into the middle of a vast international conspiracy. In his new book, Patrick Spero sheds new light on an incipient American political ...

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18th Century Chocolate Making Demonstration

Virginia Museum of History & Culture 428 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, VA

A  journey through history and discover the ways in which chocolate was prepared and enjoyed in 18th-century Virginia. Guests will have the opportunity to observe chocolate being made using reproduction cooking tools and equipment appropriate to the 18th century. Sample American Heritage Chocolate and purchase some to take home or enjoy a hot chocolate in ...

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A Wonderful Career in Crime

Virginia Museum of History & Culture 428 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, VA

Charles Cowlam’s career as a convict, spy, detective, congressional candidate, adventurer, and con artist spanned the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age. His life touched many of the most prominent figures of the era, including Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and Ulysses S. Grant. One contemporary newspaper reported that Cowlam “has as many aliases as there ...

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Author Talk: Who’s Your Founding Father?

Virginia Museum of History & Culture 428 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, VA

In 1819 John Adams came across a stunning story in his hometown newspaper that claimed that a full fourteen months before Jefferson crafted his own Declaration of Independence, a band of zealous Scots-Irish patriots, whiskey-loving Princeton scholars, and a fanatical frontier preacher in a remote corner of North Carolina had become the first Americans to ...

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Author Talk: A Perfect Frenzy

Virginia Museum of History & Culture 428 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, VA

A striking new perspective on the American Revolution that reorients our understanding of its causes, highlights the radically different motivations between patriots in the North and South, and reveals the seeds of today’s racial divide.   ...

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