Museums

December 3, 2008

New VMFA exhibit: ‘Under a Virginia Sky’

"Yonder" is a 2008 oil-on-board work by Steven Walker. (Photo by Travis Fullerton, © ...

November 25, 2008

Model trains exhibit at Science Museum

Explore a miniature circus with so much detail it almost seems real. Look for a tiny New England wood chopping operation ...

November 24, 2008

Photography in Virginia at VHS

The Turkey Princess Note: The Virginia State Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1924 with one of its purposes to un ...

VMFA library to close for 90 days

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts library will be closed from Dec. 1 to March 1 as capital improvements to the museum con ...

November 21, 2008

Call for VMFA Muse Awards nominations

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is now accepting nominations for its 5th Annual Muse Awards. The nomination deadline is ...

September 11, 2008

Search for Outstanding Scientists in VA

On behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Science Museum of Virginia is looking for Virginia’s next Outstanding S ...

August 5, 2008

Four Generations of Va. Women to open

When Virginia Historical Society (VHS) Exhibition Designer Andrew Gladwell met Helen McGehee Umaña (known professionall ...

Dog days at Science Museum

Feeling the dog days of summer? Wonder where the term comes from? Find out at the interactive planetarium show Live ...

July 26, 2008

Integration of armed forces 60th anniversary

In an OpEd piece for the Richmond Times-Dispatch Charles Bryan, CEO of the Virginia Historical Society, writes about the ...

July 18, 2008

Degas’ first ballerina at VMFA

French artist Edgar Degas’ first ballerina painting, the monumental “Portrait of Mademoiselle Eugénie Fiocre in ...

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