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May Day
2024-05-04 09:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Maypole dances have had many iterations throughout history. The earliest May poles were simple poles dressed in greenery and flowers, with no ribbons. The dancers wound in and out in complex patterns that evolved much later into the iconic ribbon dances that are still performed today. Come learn a ribbon dance at our May Day festivities on the English Farm on May 4, 2024.
The Male Pole dances will take place at 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM at the English Farm. See you soon!

Fiber Festival
2024-04-06 09:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA, 24401, United States
Join us on April 6 as we highlight our heritage breed sheep. We’ll learn about natural fibers such as wool, flax, and hemp as we explore the ways in which these fibers have been used throughout history as well as how they’re used today. Plus, we’ll be hosting fiber artists, vendors, and shepherds on this special day as we conclude Wool Week here at the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia. Fiber Fest vendors and presenters will offer information on historical fiber processing as well as workshops and demonstrations. Museum staff will also share activities focusing on fiber arts all across the Museum. We hope you’ll join us on April 6!

Vendors
Origin Fiber
One of a Kind
Companion Fiber
Cesium Yarn
Gatherings
DonnaKayStudio
Merino Matron Sheep Farm
Spindles and More
Bellefield Jacobs
Lancaster Creek Spinnery
The Fuzzy EAR
Top Dog Boutique
Semper Fidelis Farm
Twisted Yarn and Fiber Bags
Amy Christensen
Simple Hill Farm
Aleta Spring Farm & Fiber
Farm Experience LLC
McNutt-Grisby Farm
Broken Arrow Creations
Magari Yarn and Dyeworks
Food Truck: Delicias Marina Food Truck from 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Day of Schedule of Activities

10:00 AM: Sheep Dog Demo (Ireland)

11:00 AM: Hand Shearing Demo (Germany)

12:00 PM: Sheep Dog Demo (Ireland)

1:00 PM: Electric Sheep Shearing Demo

2:00 PM: Sheep Dog Demo (Ireland)

3:00 PM: Hand Sheep Shearing Demo (1850s)

The Frontier Culture Museum will host three workshops as part of this year’s Fiber Festival! Each workshop can be completed with no prior experience and the price includes all of the materials!
Drop Spinning
Learn how to create your own yarn with the timeless skill of drop spinning. In this introduction to drop spinning you will learn how to choose a fiber to spin, how to draft and apply appropriate twist. We will discuss how to ply, and how to finish your yarn. Easy to learn and with practice can be a very meditative and peaceful pastime. Adult learners only. Drop spindle for class use and fiber included.
This workshop will run from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM and is $115 per participant. Advance registration is required, purchase your tickets here.

Introduction to Wheel Spinning

Learn the ancient and timeless art of spinning. Students will start on a drop spindle to learn basic skills,and then move onto a wheel if they wish. You will learn how to choose a fiber to spin, how to draft and apply appropriate twist on a spindle, then apply those skills to a spinning wheel. Easy to learn and so rewarding, this is a class you will enjoy and a skill you will learn to love. The class includes an introduction to basic spinning skills and hands-on assistance from a spinner with more than ten years’ experience in teaching. You will have the use of drop spindles, and a spinning wheel during class, and you will be supplied with fiber for class use.
This workshop will run from 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM and is $115 per participant. Advance registration is required, purchase your tickets here.
About the Instructor
The Drop Spinning Workshop and Introduction to Wheel Spinning are both run by Dorothea Pierce. Dorothea Pierce has been knitting for over fifty years and spinning for over thirty. Her absolute favorite thing to do, EVER, is teach people how to spin and knit. She has taught everything from 3-day spinning workshops to five-minute knitting tutorials, and everything in between! She owns Yarn Seasons, a local yarn shop near Roanoke and with her mother hosts the Skein Away Fiber Retreat at Smith Mountain Lake twice a year.

2024 Lecture Series, "A Common Place: Harrisonburg and the Shenandoah Valley"
2024-04-02 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Join the Frontier Culture Museum for our 2024 Lecture Series. The final installment of the 2024 Lecture Series is titled “A Common Place: Harrisonburg and the Shenandoah Valley,” will take place on April 2, 2024 at 7:00 PM. The Lecture Series will take place in the Dairy Barn Lecture Hall and is free and open to the public.
Since the early frontier days of the eighteenth century, Harrisonburg, Virginia has been a vital agricultural, commercial, and political center in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley. It was not until the 1950s, however, that it adopted the motto “The City with the Planned Future.” David Ehrenpreis, author of Picturing Harrisonburg: Visions of a Shenandoah Valley City Since 1828 will examine how visions of a place shift over time, revealing a community’s values, how they evolve, and what they mean today.

Meet the Speaker:
David Ehrenpreis is Professor of Art History at James Madison University and has published widely in journals including the Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Woman’s Art Journal, and Art Book. He is author of the book Picturing Harrisonburg: Visions of a Shenandoah Valley City since 1828, which examines the shifting visions of place and community in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. The curator of numerous exhibitions including a survey of Chinese artist Xu Bing, his current book project is entitled “Dying for the Nation: Monuments and the Experience of National Memory.”

Easter Weekend
2024-03-30 08:00 - 2024-03-31 17:00 (America/New_York)
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, playing games, and more!
Easter Weekend is a general admission weekend, and is included in the Annual Pass.

Homeschool Days
2024-03-28 09:00 - 2024-03-29 17:00 (America/New_York) | Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA, 24401, United States
Homeschool Days are happening March 28 and 29. These two days feature special activities that have been designed specifically with homeschool students and homeschooling families in mind. Bring a picnic lunch and plan to spend the whole day at the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton, VA. Tickets on each day are $3 for children under the age of 18 and $5 for adults.
Purchase your tickets here.

2024 Lecture Series: "Beyond the Mountains, the Sun: The (In)Visibility of First Peoples and the Creation of the Back Country"
2024-03-26 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Join the Frontier Culture Museum for our 2024 Lecture Series. The third installment of the 2024 Lecture Series will take place on March 26, 2024 at 7:00 PM in the Dairy Barn Lecture Hall. Our speaker for this installment is Dr. Carole Nash and her lecture is “Beyond the Mountains, the Sun: The (In)Visibility of First Peoples and the Creation of the Back Country.” The Lecture Series is free and open to the public.
Histories of the colonial settlement of the Virginia interior are remarkably silent about the communities of First Peoples whose ancestors occupied the mountains and valleys for millennia. The very notion of the ‘back country’ or ‘frontier’ that is quintessentially American may depend on their invisibility. This presentation considers both why historians omitted Native people from these histories and the continued impacts of erasure on the contemporary Indigenous communities of western Virginia. In this case, the process of reclaiming history involves archaeology, archival research, oral tradition guided by Indigenous partnerships. While the Virginia interior story is unique because of its unusual geography and location as a cultural crossroads, Indigenous erasure as a colonial practice frames the telling of Native histories in many Eastern Woodland settings. As we learn more about the complexity and interconnectedness of First Peoples’ communities here, we come to the topic with new eyes that show us a different vision of the interior.
Meet the Speaker
Carole Nash, Ph.D., RPA, is Professor in the School of Integrated Sciences, James Madison University, where she has taught for 35 years. Her research focuses on the Blue Ridge and Shenandoah Valley, specializing in First Peoples archaeology and historical ecology. She is the author of many technical reports, scholarly papers, and publications, including co-author of Foundations of Archaeology in the Middle Atlantic. She is President of Mountain Valley Archaeology which partners with descendant communities on archaeological and historical research in western Virginia. She directs the Virginia Archaeological Certification Program, a citizen science initiative that partners professional and avocational archaeologists.

2024 Lecture Series: "The Rise of Slavery in the Valley of Virginia and its Enduring Presence on the Landscape of Lexington and Rockbridge County"
2024-03-19 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Join the Frontier Culture Museum for our 2024 Lecture Series. The second installment of the 2024 Lecture Series will take place on March 19, 2024 at 7:00 PM in the Dairy Barn Lecture Hall. The Lecture Series is free and open to the public.
The Scotch-Irish immigrants who first colonized Rockbridge County initially eschewed the institution of slavery. After the American Revolution, however, they built a society reliant on the enslavement of African Americans. Over the next eight decades, an elite class of citizens established its new American identity through economic, social, and symbolic associations with Chesapeake plantation society. Archibald Alexander (1708-1780), his son William (1738-1797), and his grandson Andrew (1768-1844) exemplified this transformation. Eventually, Andrew’s granddaughter Mary Evelyn Anderson Bruce represented the apotheosis of the Americanization of the Scotch Irish by marrying into the Bruce family of Berry Hill Plantation in South Boston, one of America’s richest families and largest slave holders. Closely tied to Liberty Hall Academy and its successor Washington College, Andrew himself held almost thirty African Americans in bondage over his lifetime at his plantation on the former school campus. In addition to the usual agricultural pursuits of plantation owners, Andrew periodically hired out enslaved people to industrialists and exploited their labor himself on both public and private infrastructure projects. Today, these manifestations of enslaved labor are abundantly present on the Rockbridge County landscape, though often they are not recognized as such.

About the Speaker:
Don Gaylord is the Research Archaeologist and an Instructor of Anthropology at Washington and Lee University. After six years in the United States Navy as a nuclear Reactor Operator, Don shifted gears to anthropological archaeology and worked in the Williamsburg, VA area for several years. While in graduate school at the University of Virginia, he began work as an archaeologist at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello where he worked for thirteen years. He has been at Washington and Lee for eleven years, where he teaches courses in anthropology, archaeology, and history.

Transcribe with the Frontier Culture Museum
2024-03-16 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Join the Frontier Culture Museum and the Library of Virginia on March 16, 2024, from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, for a free transcription workshop. This workshop will go over the basic skills you will need to transcribe historical documents, along with some common obstacles you may encounter along the way.
Participate in enhancing access to collections of over 400 years of Virginia history, people, and culture. Help us tell the narrative of all Virginians—the famous, infamous and even anonymous—and join us in Making History.
To reserve your space, please call 540-332-7850. There are a limited number of seats, so be sure to reserve yours today!
This workshop is held with the partnership of the Library of Virginia, who acquires, preserves, and promotes access to unique collections of Virginia’s history and culture.

2024 Lecture Series: "Appalachia on the Table: Reading a Region's Cuisine with Erica Abrams Locklear"
2024-03-12 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Join the Frontier Culture Museum for our 2024 Lecture Series. The first installment of the 2024 Lecture Series will take place on March 12, 2024 at 7:00 PM. The Lecture Series is free and open to the public.
When her mother passed along a cookbook made and assembled by her grandmother, Erica Abrams Locklear thought she knew what to expect. But rather than finding a homemade cookbook full of apple stack cake, leather britches, pickled watermelon, or other “traditional” mountain recipes, Locklear was surprised to discover recipes for devil’s food cake with coconut icing, grape catsup, and fig pickles. Some recipes even relied on food products like Bisquick, Swans Down flour, and Calumet baking powder. But why was that surprising?
In this talk, Professor Abrams Locklear draws from her new book, Appalachia on the Table, to explore where her—and the nation’s—Appalachian food script came from. In her talk she will focus on the representations of foods consumed, implied moral judgments about those foods, and how those judgments shape reader perceptions of those depicted. The question at the core of Locklear’s analysis asks, How did the dominant culinary narrative of the region come into existence and what consequences has that narrative had for people in the mountains? One aspect of her talk will feature archival materials from Appalachian Virginia that demonstrate long standing culinary knowhow, despite century-old narratives that suggest otherwise.

Meet the speaker:
Erica Abrams Locklear is a professor of English and the Thomas Howerton Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of North Carolina Asheville. She is the author of Appalachia on the Table: Representing Mountain Food and People (University of Georgia Press) and Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment: Appalachian Women’s Literacies (Ohio University Press), as well as various essays about the South, Appalachia, literature, and food. She is a seventh-generation Western North Carolinian who loves good food, books, and conversation.

The Book Dragon Bookshop will be onsite to sell copies of the book discussed during the lecture. Books will be able to be purchased with cash or card.

Toddler Time
2024-02-17 10:00 - 11:00 UTC | Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA, 24401, United States
Join us for Toddler Time this January and February. Stop by and enjoy a story and create a craft. Toddler Time is $3 per child and $5 per adult and includes admission into the museum afterwards. Program times are at 10:00 AM and 11:00 AM on January 6 & 20 and February 3 & 17. This program is included in the Annual Pass program.
Our final Toddler Time will be focused on the animals of the Frontier Culture Museum! Your child will have the opportunity to meet some of the critters who make their home at the FCM and make a puppet in honor of their favorite new friend.
We recommend booking your spot in advance. Register here.

Toddler Time
2024-02-03 10:00 - 11:00 UTC | Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA, 24401, United States
Join us for Toddler Time this January and February. Stop by and enjoy a story and create a craft. Toddler Time is $3 per child and $5 per adult and includes admission into the museum afterwards. Program times are at 10:00 AM and 11:00 AM on January 6 & 20 and February 3 & 17. This program is included in the Annual Pass program.
Our third Toddler Time will be focused on historical cooking, recipes, and food. Your child will have the chance to see and feel historical cookware and make a historical recipe to bake at home!
We recommend booking your spot in advance. Register here.

Toddler Time
2024-01-20 10:00 - 11:00 UTC | Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA, 24401, United States
Join us for Toddler Time this January and February. Stop by and enjoy a story and create a craft. Toddler Time is $3 per child and $5 per adult and includes admission into the museum afterwards. Program times are at 10:00 AM and 11:00 AM on January 6 & 20 and February 3 & 17. This program is included in the Annual Pass program.
Our second Toddler Time will be focused on historical fabrics, clothing, and fashion. Your child will have the opportunity to touch and try on historic clothes, while also making their own (paper) accessories to take home!
We recommend booking your spot in advance. Register here.

Toddler Time
2024-01-06 10:00 - 11:00 UTC | Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA, 24401, United States
THE JANUARY 6, 2024 TODDLER TIME IS POSTPONED DUE TO THE WEATHER FORECAST. THE EVENT WILL BE HELD ON JANUARY 13, 2024 AT THE SAME TIMES.

Join us for Toddler Time this January and February. Stop by and enjoy a story and create a craft. Toddler Time is $3 per child and $5 per adult and includes admission into the museum afterwards. Program times are at 10:00 AM and 11:00 AM on January 6 & 20 and February 3 & 17. This program is included in the Annual Pass program.
Our first Toddler Time will be focused on historical music, instruments, and rhythms. Our small friends will have the opportunity to see, touch, and hear historical instruments, while also having the chance to make and play their own!
*Please be advised that this program will be loud and may affect friends who are sensitive to noise.
We recommend booking your spot in advance. Register here.

Lantern Tours
2023-12-15 17:30 - 2023-12-23 20:30 UTC | Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA, 24401, United States
2023 LANTERN TOURS ARE SOLD OUT. WALK-UPS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
2023 Lantern Tours will run from December 15th – December 17th, and December 20th – December 23rd.
Tickets are sold out!
This is a special ticketed event and Annual Passes do not apply.
England 1661
It’s Christmas for the milkmaids of Worcestershire. As Christmas returns to a happy time familiar before the war, catching up with friends leads naturally to talk of cheese, strawberry milk…and love. Will Christmas bring a happy surprise for one of the milkmaids?
Ireland 1778
Sometimes gifts are best left ungiven… In 1778, near Ballyshannon, County Donegal, the Doherty’s are struggling through yet another hard winter. War in America though far away, has begun to impact the Irish people, both economically and politically. For some in Ireland, the Doherty’s included, times are tough. Join them on Christmas night, when an unexpected visitor brings gifts that might be more complicated than they seem.
Germany 1765
Klara, responsible for Christmas dinner for the first time, finds her preparations interrupted not once, but twice by surprise visitors. The men have come to ask her a very important question, the same question, in fact! Fritz has grand plans to emigrate to Virginia, while Ernst is enamored with the idea of Catherine the Great’s settlements on the Volga. What’s a girl to do with two very different suitors on Christmas Eve?
Shenandoah Valley 1820
What to do when Papa, a music teacher much devoted to shape note singing, a popular form of music in the Shenandoah Valley, isn’t quite in the holiday mood? Like many of the conservative families in the Valley, Papa finds the Christmas tradition of belsnickling to be too worldly and irreverent, and much to the disappointment of his daughters, he does not allow belsnicklers into his house. Will the holiday spirit or Papa’s stubborness win out?
Staunton 1851
Christmas is finally becoming a recognizable family-oriented holiday. People buy gifts, eat good food, decorate a table-top tree. But what about the families who can’t spend a lot? How do all of the new flashy advertisements in newspapers play into what makes a Christmas? And with new entertainments happening all the time, what keeps a family together on the holiday?
Tickets are:
$19 for ages 6 & up
$9 for ages 2 to 5
Under 2 are free

If you, or a member of your party, have mobility limitations and require a seat on the mobility cart, reservations must be made by 12:00 PM on the day of your tour. In order to make the reservation, please call 540-332-7850.

2023 LANTERN TOURS ARE SOLD OUT. WALK-UPS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

Artisan Fair
2023-11-24 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA, 24401, United States
Join the Frontier Culture Museum at our Annual Artisan Fair! We will have artisan craft vendors, selling one of the a kind crafts for every person is your life.
Check out our vendors!

Vendor applications are now closed!

Hammer In: Blacksmithing Weekend
2023-11-18 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA, 24401, United States
Join us for a Hammer-In! Blacksmiths from across the country will be coming to the Frontier Culture Museum to showcase their skills and sell their wares. This event will be Saturday, November 18, from 9 AM – 5 PM and is a general admission ticketed event. The event will also feature a forging contest and an iron in the hat raffle. We also have a number of presenters and blacksmithing vendors participating in this special event.
Presenter: Shel Browder
Shel Browder began metal work in the welding and sheet metal shop that was part of the family hardware business. After discovering that he was not fond of working behind a desk, he returned to that work in 1980 and began doing demonstrations at local schools and craft fairs. In 1985, he built a blacksmith shop at Tryon Palace in Newbern, NC.
In 1993, the went to work at the Anderson Blacksmith Shop at Colonial Williamsburg where he earned his journeyman status. After retiring from there in 2011, he has worked in his own shop and at Historic Jamestown. Shel and Steve Mankowski built a blacksmith shop there on the site of the first English blacksmith shop in the New World.
Shel has reproduced many iron objects including locks and keys, cooking utensils, edge tools, and swords. Oh yes, and hundreds of thousands of nails. He has taught and demonstrated at many sites as well. He is also a teller of old tales.

2023 Lecture Series, "Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States”
2023-11-14 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA, 24401, United States
Join the Frontier Culture Museum on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 for the final installment of our 2023 Lecture Series. This month’s lecture is “Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States” presented by Dr. Samantha Seeley from the University of Richmond. The lecture starts at 6:00 PM in the Dairy Barn Lecture Hall and is free and open to the public.
Who had the right to live within the newly united states of America? In the country’s founding decades, federal and state politicians debated which categories of people could remain and which should be subject to removal. The result was a white Republic, purposefully constructed through contentious legal, political, and diplomatic negotiation. But removal, like the right to remain, was a battle fought on multiple fronts. It encompassed Indigenous leaders’ determination to expel white settlers from Native lands and free African Americans’ legal maneuvers to remain within the states that sought to drive them out. In the middle states poised between the edges of slavery and freedom, removal was both warmly embraced and hotly contested.

Native American History Day
2023-11-11 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA, 24401, United States
Join us at the Frontier Culture Museum as we reflect on the roles of Native Americans on the Virginia Frontier, their many impacts on American culture, and their nations today. We will be joined by tribally enrolled interpreter Kody Grant, who is an enrolled member of The Pueblo of Isleta and a descendant of The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
Our living history demonstrations will include a major focus on deer hide processing and the trade in deer skins between Europeans and Native people, flint knapping, cooking/foodways demonstrations, and more.
To thank our veterans, all active duty and retired military will receive complementary admission on November 11, 2023.

Archaeology Day
2023-10-21 09:00 - 10:00 UTC | Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA, 24401, United States
Join the Frontier Culture Museum for our Annual Archaeology Day celebration.

Oktoberfest
2023-10-07 09:00 - 19:00 UTC | Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA, 24401, United States
Our Annual Oktoberfest is back on October 7, 2023 from 12 PM – 7 PM!
This year we will be joined by the Stonewall Brigade Band, SGTEV Hirschjäger, and the Edelweiss Band for non-stop music and fun. Venture into the museum to learn how 18th century Germans brewed beer and cooked for festivals and special feast days. Explore the American exhibits and see how German culture continued in the descendants of those who immigrated to the American colonies.
Beer will be available for purchase at the Lee S. Cochran Pavilion. Brats and More will be on-site, as well as Rick’s BBQ & Catering, serving up traditionally styled German food.
This is a special ticketed event and annual passes do not cover this event.

2023 Lecture Series, "Alexander Spotswood’s Germanna: A Gateway to Colonial Virginia’s West”
2023-09-19 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA, 24401, United States
Join the Frontier Culture Museum on Tuesday, September 19, 2023 for the next installment of our 2023 Lecture Series. This month’s lecture is “Alexander Spotswood’s Germanna: A Gateway to Colonial Virginia’s West” presented by Dr. Eric Larsen from the Germanna Archaeology Foundation. The lecture starts at 6:00 PM in the Dairy Barn Lecture Hall and is free and open to the public.
Lt. Governor, Alexander Spotswood served as Governor of Colonial Virginia from 1710 to 1722. During his tenure, Spotswood established two forts along the western edges of the colony’s settlement. One of these forts came to be called Fort Germanna. Opened in 1714, Spotswood placed several families of German speaking immigrants in the fort to serve as a “barrier” between the French and French influenced Natives to the west. The fort, itself, was short lived and came to be replaced by a significant Georgian home built by Spotswood during his post Governor years in Virginia. This mansion came to be known as Spotswood’s “Enchanted Castle.” A small community of Germanna, grew up over this first half of the eighteenth century. This was the same period that the colony of Virginia was pushing westward into the piedmont and over the Blue Ridge. Germanna was part of this journey.
Meet the speaker:
Dr. Larsen brings more than 30 years of archaeological experience to his position with the Germanna Foundation. He has worked with the National Park Service at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, and for the University of Maryland on sites in Annapolis, Maryland. He directed fieldwork at the Freedmen’s and Contraband Cemetery for the City of Alexandria, Virginia. He has taught Introductory Archaeology classes and trained numerous students through a variety of Field Schools around the Mid-Atlantic States. Dr. Larsen has been with the Germanna Foundation for eight years, during which time the Germanna Archaeology Project was born.

Revolutionary War Weekend: Global Tempest
2023-09-16 09:00 - 2023-09-17 17:00 UTC | Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA, 24401, United States
September 16-17, come join the Revolution that sparked a world-wide conflict. Global Tempest: A Revolutionary War Weekend, will see highly skilled reenactors and historians from across the country transform the Frontier Culture Museum into a world at war. Visit and explore the American Revolution as you’ve never seen it before, through the eyes of the many diverse peoples who lived it. Allow us to take you on a journey across the Atlantic, where you can explore West Africa, England, Ireland, Germany, and America, and see yourself in our Revolutionary beginnings. Hear the stories of the men and women, free and enslaved, European and American, indigenous and immigrant, who braved the Global Tempest of the American Revolution. The drums will beat, the muskets will roar, and this is sure to be an event you won’t want to miss.
This weekend, we will be joined by living historians from across the country.
The days activities will be made available later in the summer, check back for a full list.
This is a general admission ticketed event!

Fall Homeschool Days
2023-09-07 09:00 - 2023-09-08 17:00 UTC | Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA, 24401, United States
Fall Homeschool Days are Thursday, September 7th & Friday, September 8th.
Homeschool Days are designed specifically for homeschool children and parents in mind. Stop by the school house for a 19th century school lesson, join our interpreters for historic games, and experience everyday life with hands on demonstrations. Bring a picnic lunch and spend the whole day at the museum, we have plenty to do!
Tickets on these two days are $3 for children under the age of 18 and $5 for adults.
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Labor Day Weekend
2023-09-02 09:00 - 2023-09-03 17:00 UTC | Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA, 24401, United States
Come and relax with the Frontier Culture Museum this Labor Day Weekend. Play games with us and learn about cooking in different parts of the world and throughout time. Stop by all weekend long to learn about leisure and how people took a break from the everyday life.

Virginia Rain Bluegrass Band (Roots Concert Series)
2023-08-27 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA, 24401, United States
The Frontier Culture Museum American Roots Concert Series is back for the 2023 season. Join us every Sunday in August from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM for live roots music! The final concert of 2023 will feature Virginia Rain Bluegrass Band.
Virginia Rain Bluegrass Band is based in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where bluegrass roots run deep, traditional and true. They hope their music reflects the love and passion each of them has for bluegrass!
Tickets are $12 per person, or reserve an entire table for $60.00. Tickets for Roots are included in museum admission, so spend the whole day with us! Rick’s BBQ & Catering will be on site during the Roots Concert for dinner!

Harvest Festival
2023-08-06 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA, 24401, United States
Join the Frontier Culture Museum for our Harvest Festival. Late summer and early fall is when the wheat that would sustain you throughout the winter would be harvested. Stop by as we explore what this time of year would have been like for people around the world and across time. This event will feature hands on activities and a vendor fair. Don’t forget to stay after 5 PM that day for the first concert in our Root Concert Series. The Judy Chops!

Want to be a vendor? We are looking for vendors that are selling handmade goods or produce for this event! Email events@fcmv.virginia.gov for more information!

4th of July Celebration
2023-07-04 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Ave., Staunton, VA, 24401, United States
Be sure to stop by the Frontier Culture Museum this Independence Day for our 4th of July Celebration from 9 AM – 5PM.
March with the troops and listen to a reading of the Declaration of Independence. Speak to the soldiers of Crockett’s Western Battalion as they set up camp at our Settlement site. Bring the family for historical games, trades, and much more!
Chaddie’s Food Truck will be on-site this July 4th for lunch!
This is a pay-what-you-will donation day, so bring the whole family.
Timed activities are coming soon, so check back often.
