Museums & Galleries

Take a tour of the Virginia War Memorial, honoring Virginians who died in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Persian Gulf War.

Children’s Museum of Richmond is an interactive, hands-on museum with age-appropriate activities for newborns and up to age 8. SLIDESHOW

Housed in the former Broad Street Station railroad terminal. Permanent hands-on exhibits focus on such things as aerospace, astronomy, crystals, physics, perception and computers.

The museum of Richmond’s history documents the lifestyle and culture of the city’s residents through the years.

John Marshall House, built 1790-1792, is home of the former Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall.

Tour the Museum and White House of the Confederacy, which holds the largest collection of Confederate art, artifacts and documents in the world.

Take photo & video tours of the Virginia Aviation Museum, featuring vintage aircraft, aviation history exhibitions, a World War II exhibition, interactive Forces of Flight exhibits, Piper Cub full-size aircraft, flight films and lectures.

Tour Wilton House Museum, Georgian house built in 1753, in historic Windsor Farms.

Tour Virginia House, a reconstructed centuries-old English manor house in historic Windsor Farms.

Galleries exhibiting rare Virginia treasures, a library for historical and genealogical research, Civil War murals, a renowned collection of Confederate-made weapons and a museum shop.

Virginia Center for Architecture, located in the historic Branch House on Monument Avenue.

The Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Shockoe Bottom contains memorabilia of Poe, who spent part of his life in Richmond.

Virginia Holocaust Museum: The story of the Holocaust and its victims; located in a renovated 1899 brick tobacco factory.

Take a tour of the Old Dominion Railway Museum and learn about the history of railroading in Richmond.

Maggie L. Walker House: Historic Jackson Ward home of the first woman bank president in the U.S., offers exhibits and programs.

Take a video tour the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia in the historic Jackson Ward district.

Magnolia Grange is an 1822 Federal-style plantation house, a Virginia Historic Landmark and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Take photo tours of the Chesterfield County Museum, the 1892 Old Jail, Chesterfield’s Historic 1917 Courthouse and Castlewood, which all make up the Chesterfield Museum Complex.

Tour Crump Park, Meadow Farm Museum and RF&P Park in western Henrico County. SLIDESHOW

Centre Hill Mansion is perched on a hill near the middle of downtown Petersburg. The Federal-style mansion, built in 1823 by Robert Bolling IV, is filled with period furnishings.