The search results below contain listings from our website. To search our library and museum collections catalogs, please visit the Collections page.
Exhibition
A Better Life for Their Children
Image
From 1912-37, the Rosenwald schools program built thousands of schools, shops, and teacher’s homes across 15 Southern...
Exhibition
Agents of Change
Image
Organized in conjunction with the statewide Women’s Suffrage Centennial, this exhibition featured artifacts from the...
Exhibition
Artists4ERA
Image
Artists4ERA is part of ongoing efforts to ensure that the ERA becomes the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...
Exhibition
Coming Out, Affecting Change
Image
For centuries, social and legal discrimination forced most lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+)...
Exhibition
Determined
Image
This exhibition examined the long history of black Americans in North America as they have fought for freedom, equal...
Exhibition
Fresh Paint
Image
This unprecedented exhibition explored the power of murals to encourage reflection on Virginia’s past by inviting...
Exhibition
Inside Looking Out
Image
The first exhibition of its kind in that it displays nearly all of artist Queena Stovall’s work in one place, this...
Exhibition
Mending Walls RVA
Image
This pop-up exhibition and community collaboration featured a diverse group of artists creating public artwork as a tool...
Exhibition
PRAISE YOUR MOTHER / AMA A LA MAMÁ – InLight 2020
Image
The VMHC was excited to be a host location in November 2020 for the art installation, PRAISE YOUR MOTHER / AMA A LA MAMÁ...
Time Period Chapter
Reconstruction
Image
During the decade following the Civil War, former Confederate states were required to “reconstruct” their state...
Time Period Chapter
Slavery
Image
Virginia’s 550,000 slaves constituted one third of the state’s population in 1860.
Time Period Chapter
The Battlefront in Virginia
Image
Home to the Confederate capital, Virginia became a battleground.
Exhibition
The League of Wives
Image
Featuring artifacts, photographs, and oral histories, this exhibition illustrated the dramatic story of how the spouses...
Time Period Chapter
The Struggle for Equality
Image
The American concept that all people are equal and all have unalienable rights was introduced by Virginians George Mason...
Exhibition
Violins of Hope
Image
Violins of Hope features a selection of seven violins from a collection of more than sixty that survived the Holocaust...
Time Period Chapter
Virginia and Women’s Suffrage
Image
Despite the socio-political changes that occurred during Reconstruction, women at the dawn of the twentieth century...
Time Period Chapter
War on the Home Front
Image
For some, the war brought deprivation, horror, and loss right to their very doorsteps.