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Event Series Spring Homeschool Days

Spring Homeschool Days

Come see all the activities we have planned for our Spring Homeschool Days! Homeschool days provide homeschoolers the chance to participate in the increased hands-on experience of a field trip. Try your hand at splitting a log to make fence rails or experience an early 19th century school lesson! Pre-registration is highly recommended for this [...]

Event Series Spring Homeschool Days

Spring Homeschool Days

Come see all the activities we have planned for our Spring Homeschool Days! Homeschool days provide homeschoolers the chance to participate in the increased hands-on experience of a field trip. Try your hand at splitting a log to make fence rails or experience an early 19th century school lesson! Pre-registration is highly recommended for this [...]

Event Series Spring Homeschool Days

Spring Homeschool Days

Come see all the activities we have planned for our Spring Homeschool Days! Homeschool days provide homeschoolers the chance to participate in the increased hands-on experience of a field trip. Try your hand at splitting a log to make fence rails or experience an early 19th century school lesson! Pre-registration is highly recommended for this [...]

Fiber Festival

Join the Frontier Culture Museum for the 3rd annual Fiber Festival. This festival highlights the historical importance of natural fibers such as wool, flax, cotton, and hemp, and the ways in which they were processed and used by people in the past. Visitors are invited to engage with our historical interpreters as they demonstrate traditional [...]

Event Series Revolutionary Virginia

Revolutionary Virginia

Join us for this special extended hours event at the Frontier Culture Museum! On April 15-17th 2025, we are excited to host the Virginia American Revolution 250th Mobile Museum! This free interactive experience allows the visitor to engage with Virginia’s rich Revolutionary history. The Mobile Museum will be open from 1-7 pm. After visiting the [...]

Event Series Revolutionary Virginia

Revolutionary Virginia

Join us for this special extended hours event at the Frontier Culture Museum! On April 15-17th 2025, we are excited to host the Virginia American Revolution 250th Mobile Museum! This free interactive experience allows the visitor to engage with Virginia’s rich Revolutionary history. The Mobile Museum will be open from 1-7 pm. After visiting the [...]

Event Series Revolutionary Virginia

Revolutionary Virginia

Join us for this special extended hours event at the Frontier Culture Museum! On April 15-17th 2025, we are excited to host the Virginia American Revolution 250th Mobile Museum! This free interactive experience allows the visitor to engage with Virginia’s rich Revolutionary history. The Mobile Museum will be open from 1-7 pm. After visiting the [...]

Event Series Easter Weekend

Easter Weekend

Easter traditions have a long history. Serving ham, cheese, and bread, along with special sweets to end Lent began around the 12th century. The first decorated Easter eggs date to the 13th century. Come join us as our costumed interpreters demonstrate historic Easter activities all weekend long, including naturally dyed eggs, making hot cross buns, [...]

Event Series Easter Weekend

Easter Weekend

Easter traditions have a long history. Serving ham, cheese, and bread, along with special sweets to end Lent began around the 12th century. The first decorated Easter eggs date to the 13th century. Come join us as our costumed interpreters demonstrate historic Easter activities all weekend long, including naturally dyed eggs, making hot cross buns, [...]

May Day

May Day has marked the return of spring for people around the world for millennia. Traditional celebrations included decorating people and structures with wildflower garlands, feasting on newly growing greens and, of course, Maypole dances. Maypole dances have had many iterations throughout history. The earliest May poles were simple poles dressed in greenery and flowers, [...]