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Current Exhibitions
Exhibitions are included with Museum Daily Admission
Our Commonwealth
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This new signature exhibition provides an in-depth, multi-sensory journey through the five major regions of Virginia and features stories and artifacts from across the state to reveal that place is not only about geography, but also the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.

Uncommon Strength
Open Now
This exhibition developed in partnership with the Virginia Department of Historic Resources relies on the use of cultural context in archaeological investigations to interpret the ways in which enslaved Africans resisted bondage and created their own history and culture.

American Democracy
Open Now
Examining our government’s founding and the continuing story of America’s bold experiment in a government “of, by, and for the people," American Democracy comes to life through Smithsonian collection artifacts, contemporary objects, and touchable artifacts.
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Featured Collections Items
The VMHC has a collection of more than 9 million items. Here are just a few them (please note that not all of them may be on display to the public). Search the Library or Museum Objects Collections databases to learn more.

Tennis Items, Arthur Ashe

Drawing, Natural Bridge

Painting, George Washington

Bowie Knife

Desk circa 1780-1805

U.S. Navy WAVES Uniform

Equal Suffrage League of Richmond Photograph

Program, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1962
![Photographic print, No. 3, Pocahontas [train], barrels by Shawsville on its night run to Cincinnati, 1955 Silver gelatin photographic print. Framed. Image depicts Norfolk and Western Train No. 3, the Pocahontas, in a shroud of exhaust with 13 cars of Christmas mail and passengers.](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_590px_breakpoint_/public/Collection%20Item_Norfolk%20Western%20Train%20No%203%20Pocahontas_OWinstonLink.1990.115_H3.jpg?h=a9575592&itok=LSLVyf6-)
Photographic print, No. 3, Pocahontas [train], barrels by Shawsville on its night run to Cincinnati, 1955

Tintype Portrait of Robert Thaxton
![Medal, Indian badge Silver medal inscribed on obverse, " The King of" and on the reverse "Machotick," [Machodoc], with both sides engraved with flowers and cornucopia.](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_590px_breakpoint_/public/Collection%20Item_IndianBadge_Machotick.1965.12_front_H3.jpg?h=a9575592&itok=sgARzG-4)