Fee: $10 for students, $18 for adults
Members and children 2 and under are free.
Museum admission will be reduced for homeschool day. This reduced admission can be purchased at the front desk at the time of your admission, or in advance online. Your self-guided visit will include entry to the museum’s indoor exhibit galleries, outdoor trail exhibits, and new wild care center. There will also be free feedings and science shows that you can attend throughout the day.
The exhibits in the Virginia Living Museum were designed to correlate with and reinforce Virginia’s Standards of Learning for Science. While taking a tour of the geographic regions of Virginia, families can observe:
- Live animals and plants in their natural habitats
- Plant and animal life cycles, food chains and food webs
- Animal survival adaptations for finding food and shelter, rearing young, avoiding predators, defensive measures
- Animal migration, camouflage and hibernation
- Endangered and threatened species
- Vertebrates and invertebrates
- The importance of conserving Virginia’s animal, plant and mineral resources
- Pond, forest, stream, Chesapeake Bay, cypress swamp, mountain cove, cave and more habitats
- Virginia’s prehistoric past: rocks, minerals, fossils
Self-Guided Exhibit Guides
The Virginia Living Museum has developed targeted guides to help your student focus during their visit. Please come prepared with copies for your student.
