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The Story of Virginia
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This exhibition interprets 16,000 years of Virginia history and features more than 500 artifacts, maps, letters, and...
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The Virginia Watercolor Society’s 41st Annual Exhibition
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The VMHC hosted the 41st annual juried exhibition of the Virginia Watercolor Society (VWS) featuring more than 80...
Article Set - Chapter
The Weddells
Learn more about Alexander Weddell and Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell.
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The World of Jim Crow
After the Civil War, Black Americans were no longer enslaved but they had not achieved equal status with whites in American
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Theodore de Bry's Engravings
In 1590, Theodore de Bry reprinted Thomas Hariot's A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia. The text was
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Toys of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s
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Through this exhibition, visitors experienced the toys and their stories through three imagined living rooms that...
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Traveling Bricks
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As the LEGO Group opens its first and only U.S. manufacturing plant in the Virginia, VMHC guests can embark an exciting...
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Treasures of Virginia
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This gallery features a rotating display of extraordinary items related to individuals or events that shaped the...
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Turning Point: World War II
P. B. Young, editor of the Norfolk Journal and Guide, a black newspaper, spoke from the heart when he told white liberals,
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Un/Bound: Free Black Virginians, 1619-1865
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Explore the lives of free Black Virginians from the arrival of the first captive Africans in 1619 to the abolition of...
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Uncommon Strength
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This exhibition developed in partnership with the Virginia Department of Historic Resources relies on the use of...
Portrait Index - Groups
Vaiden - YMCA: photographs and portraits of groups
The VMHC maintains an extensive series of photograph files that may contain a combination of original photographs, prints and
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Violins of Hope
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Violins of Hope features a selection of seven violins from a collection of more than sixty that survived the Holocaust...
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Virginia & the Vietnam War
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On the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, this display will invite guests to immerse themselves in the choices...
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Virginia on the Eve of War
In 1917, Virginia was largely rural and poor. Although there was a growing migration to cities, three out of four Virginians
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Visionary Virginians
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This display celebrates the vision of William and Ann Oppenhimer with a selection of Virginia folk art from their...
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Voting Rights
To circumvent the Fifteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guaranteed voting rights to Black men, the 1901–02
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W. E. B. Du Bois and the NAACP
W. E. B. Du Bois was the first black recipient of a Ph.D. from Harvard University. In The Souls of Black Folks, published in
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Waging War - The Battlefront
The easiest way to defeat the secessionist movement seemed to be to capture Richmond, the seat of the Confederate government
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We The People
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This exhibition will explore the many people who, over centuries, have made Virginia the unique place it is in America...