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Exhibition
The League of Wives
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Featuring artifacts, photographs, and oral histories, this exhibition illustrated the dramatic story of how the spouses...
Exhibition
The Lost Cause
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This exhibition explores the history of the Lost Cause as expressed through a cycle of military murals and a sculpture...
Article Set - Intro
The Portent: John Brown's Raid in American Memory
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John Brown remains one of the most controversial figures in our history. To destroy the institution of slavery, he firmly believed there was only one possible course of action. He saw what he thought was the ultimate wrong and tried in the only way he could imagine to right it. Which John Brown should we remember? The crusader for abolition or the bloodthirsty terrorist? Is it possible to list him among the great pantheon of American heroes, or do we still recoil from the image of his attack on an American military installation, an action that can be described by no term other than treason?
Exhibition
The Private Jefferson
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The Private Jefferson: From the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society features Thomas Jefferson's...
Time Period Chapter
The Revolutionary Era in Virginia
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Virginia—the largest and most populous colony—played a major role in winning independence and determining the values and...
Exhibition
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...
Time Period Chapter
The Struggle for Equality
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The American concept that all people are equal and all have unalienable rights was introduced by Virginians George Mason...
Exhibition
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...
Exhibition
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...
Exhibition
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...
Exhibition
Treasures of Virginia
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This gallery features a rotating display of extraordinary items related to individuals or events that shaped the...
Exhibition
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...
Exhibition
Uncommon Strength
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This exhibition developed in partnership with the Virginia Department of Historic Resources relies on the use of...
Exhibition
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...
Exhibition
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...
Time Period Chapter
Virginia and the Planter Class
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Governor William Berkeley set out to imitate the society of inequality of wealth and education that he knew in England.
Time Period Chapter
Virginia and Women’s Suffrage
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Despite the socio-political changes that occurred during Reconstruction, women at the dawn of the twentieth century...
Article Set - Intro
Virginia House
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Formerly an English manor house, Virginia House was relocated to Richmond in 1925.
Article Set - Intro
Virginia's Colonial Dynasties
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In the colonial period, portraiture proved to be a particularly useful tool in establishing and preserving family status. This exhibit presents twenty-four portraits from the Virginia Historical Society's collection. Early Virginia portraits reveal much about the families that commissioned them, as well as how these Virginians valued how they were perceived by others.
Time Period Chapter
Virginia’s Traffic in the Atlantic World
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Tobacco proved to be good as gold for Virginians. Wealth from its sale and easy navigation of the colony’s rivers...