The Virginia Living Museum is a successful public-private partnership, since 1966, between the City of Newport News and the Virginia Living Museum, a 501 (c)(3) organization. Together we connect people to nature through educational experiences that promote conservation. BUILT by the Community, BELOVED by the Community and SUSTAINED by the Community, the Museum depends on private donations to succeed. We appreciate your financial contribution to support engaging education, animal welfare and conservation experiences for you and your family. Please consider a gift to our Annual Fund or a planned gift to our Endowment for future sustainability.
The Virginia Living Museum is home to more than 250 species of animals found in Virginia including reptiles, mammals, birds and fish. We provide a sanctuary for orphaned, non-releasable or injured animals.
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The Virginia Living Museum has one of the largest displays of native plants in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The Virginia Living Museum’s Underground Gallery is a journey back through Virginia’s ancient past, a past that has created a rich and colorful present.
Travel the universe in the digital state-of-the-art Abbitt Planetarium Theater. The 71-seat planetarium theater, renovated and upgraded in 2008, offers a fully digital simulation of the sky.
The Virginia Living Museum is a certified Virginia Green attraction committed to minimizing its environmental impacts by preventing pollution wherever feasible in its operations.
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Staff and volunteers participate in lake clean ups of Deer Park Lake throughout the year. In 2021 over 121 pounds of trash have been picked up out of the lake! Participate in International Coastal Clean Up Day at your local waterway. Show up your completed BINGO card and your collected trash! Make sure to submit your data to the Ocean Conservancy’s global ocean trash database: oceanconservancy.org/trash-free-seas/international-coastal-cleanup/cleanswell/ ... See MoreSee Less
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