Welcome to the Virginia Living Museum
Virginia’s Animal Attraction & Dino Destination
The Virginia Living Museum is a successful public-private partnership, since 1966, between the City of Newport News and the Virginia Living Museum, a public non-profit 501(c)(3) organization (54-6055922). 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.
What You’ll See
Animals in Action
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.
Plants in Action
The Virginia Living Museum has one of the largest displays of native plants in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Geology in Action
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.
Planetarium in Action
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.
Conservation in Action
The Virginia Living Museum is a certified Virginia Green attraction committed to minimizing its environmental impacts by preventing pollution wherever feasible in its operations.
Happening Today
Animal Feedings
Museum Public Events
Happening Now on Social Media
Not for the faint of heart, this is a mind-numbingly hot pepper! This is a cross between Naga Morich and 7 Pot Trinidad Douglah, IYKYK. Pods have a dark chocolate brown, to red color and very wrinkly skin. Can be enjoyed in chili, dried, pickled or straight from the garden if you’re brave enough!
Heat Level: 1,000,000,000+ SHUs
Plant Height: 3-4 ft
Days to Harvest: 100-110
#hotheads #hotones #SpicyLife #PepperPassion #HeatSeeker #CapsaicinCraze #HotPepperLove #FlamingFlavors #ScovilleSensation #FireAndFlavor #ChiliChampion #PepperParadise #SizzlingSpices #BoldBite #ZestyZing #TasteTheHeat #PepperPower #FieryFoods #SpiceUpYourLife #PepperPerfection #FlavorExplosion #HotSauceAddict
Are you guys selling these? Very interested
I think it would be safer to eat one of these.
April is waning, and so are the Winter stars. Taurus the Bull, once high over just a few months ago, is now barely visible for an hour after sunset. Try looking for his V-shaped face in the west just after the Sun goes down. If you can find it - congratulations! You are viewing an open cluster of stars called the Hyades. These stars were all born together from a single cloud of gas and dust. But now, they are aging, and the cluster itself is beginning to collapse as some of the stars on the outer edge of the grouping drift away, escaping the gravitational influence of the cluster.