The Virginia Museum of History & Culture is dedicated to presenting exhibitions that interpret both broad and focused themes from Virginia's story, highlighting rare and everyday artifacts from our collection of over nine million artifacts and those on loan through partnerships with fellow cultural institutions. Exhibitions feature topics from throughout the Commonwealth's long history, allowing visitors to reflect on the past, interpret the present, and explore the potential of the future. Browse a few of our past exhibitions below.
Discover rare artifacts and experience an interactive exhibition that explores Alexander Hamilton’s relationships with the founding generation of Virginians.
This pop-up exhibition and community collaboration featured a diverse group of artists creating public artwork as a tool to promote empathy and connection.
Organized in conjunction with the statewide Women’s Suffrage Centennial, this exhibition featuring artifacts from the museum’s vast collections and new acquisit
For centuries, social and legal discrimination forced most lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) Virginians to conceal their relationships and
Featuring artifacts, photographs, and oral histories, The League of Wives illustrates the dramatic story of how the spouses of American servicemen bucked govern
In partnership with The Next Move Program, the VMHC is displaying portraits featuring remarkable and varied stories of individuals from the Richmond area as par
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