Past exhibitions
Lee and Grant
11/2007 - 3/2008 [Press release | exhibition catalog | view online exhibition]
The Episcopal Church in Virginia, 1607–2007
7/2007 - 1/2008 [Press release | Order The Episcopal Church in Virginia, 1607–2007]
Looking Back: The Jamestown Negro Exhibit of 1907
7/2007 - 9/2007 [press release]
Jamestown, Québec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings
3/2007 - 9/2007 [press release | exhibition catalog | view online exhibition]
Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend
2/2007 - 6/2007 [press release | exhibition catalog]
Pierre Daura's Vision of Virginia
9/2006 - 1/2007 [press release]
175 Years of Collecting: A Virginia History Quiz
7/2006 - 12/2006 [press release | online exhibition]
Quilts of the Old Dominion
3/2006 - 12/2006 [press release]
Safely Harbored: New African American Acquisitions
2/2006 - 8/2006 [press release]
Cathedral of the Sacred Heart: A Centennial Celebration
3/2006 - 8/2006 [press release]
Virginia's Diplomats
2/2006 - 7/2006 [press release | online exhibition]
In Jefferson's Shadow: The Architecture of Thomas Blackburn
12/2005 - 5/2006 [press release]
Patrick Henry: His Story
7/2005 - 1/2006 [press release]
CAR CRAZY: Racing & Rodding in Southwest Virginia
7/2005 - 12/2005 [press release]
Organized by the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College
Wartime Memories: World War II Paintings by Clinton Ford
7/2005 - 12/2005 [press release]
Clinton Ford exhibit at the Richard Bland College Library
Virginia's Colonial Dynasties
2/2005 - 11/2005 [online exhibition]
Children of Hope: African American Childhood in Virginia
1/2004 - 6/2005 [press release]
American Visions of Liberty & Freedom
10/2004 - 5/2005 [online exhibition]
Stoneware Pottery of Eastern Virginia, 1720–1865
9/2004 - 2/2005
Pivotal Presidential Elections, 1789–1968: The Allen Frey Collection
5/2004 - 1/2005
Lindbergh
7/2004 - 9/2004
Organized by the Missouri Historical Society
Painted History: The Landscapes of Valley View Farm
2/2004 - 8/2004
The Civil Rights Movement in Virginia
2/2004 - 6/2004 [online exhibition]
Southern Architecture in the Balance: Photographs by Gaston Ward Callum II
3/2004 - 6/2004
Charting the Old Dominion: Maps and Books from the Collection of Alan M. Voorhees
10/2003 - 4/2004
Soldier of Peace: George C. Marshall and the Nobel Peace Prize
8/2003 - 2/2004
Organized by the George C. Marshall Foundation
Beyond Lewis & Clark: The Army Explores the West
7/2003 - 1/2004
Organized by the Kansas Historical Society, Washington State Historical Society, U.S. Army Center of Military History, and U.S. Army's Frontier Army Museum
Early Images of Virginia Indians: The William W. Cole Collection
4/2003 - 10/2003 [online exhibition]
Virginia Treasures of the National Portrait Gallery
1/2001 - 9/2003
Organized by The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal
2/2003 - 6/2003 [online exhibition]
A Dream Deferred: World War II and the African American Experience
12/2002 - 3/2003
Enslaved: Life on Virginia Presidents' Plantations
10/2002 - 1/2003
Portraits of the Presidents from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
10/2002 - 1/2003
Organized by The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
September 11, 2001, in Virginia
8/2002 - 12/02
Missing (photographs of street memorials in New York City after September 11)
8/2002 - 10/2002
Organized by the Municipal Art Society of New York
Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives
8/2002 - 9/2002
Organized by the US National Archives & Records Administration
FDR in Virginia
At Virginia House - 4/2002 - 9/2002
Michael Miley, General Lee's Photographer
3/2002 - 8/2002 [online exhibition]
Eye of the Storm: Civil War Drawings by Robert K. Sneden
3/2002 - 7/2002
"Wish You Were Here" Virginia Postcards, 1900-1925
At Virginia House - 9/2001 - 4/2002
Child Labor in Virginia: Photographs by Lewis Hine
10/2001 - 3/2002 [online exhibition]
The Banjo in Virginia
10/2001 - 3/2002
Organized by Ferrum College's Blue Ridge Institute & Museum and the State Center for Blue Ridge Folklore
Reflections in Black: Smithsonian African American Photography, The First 100 Years, 1842-1942
1/2002 - 2/2002
Organized by the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture, Smithsonian
Treasures Revealed from the Paul Mellon Library of Americana
9/2001 - 1/2002 [online exhibition]
Alexandria, 1749-1999
9/2001 - 12/2001 [online exhibition]
Reading the Word: The Church and African American Education
6/2001 - 9/2001
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
6/2001 - 8/2001
Organized by the Library of Congress [online exhibition]
Serving Home and Community: Women of Southern Appalachia
3/2001 - 5/2001
Cussing Cousins: John Marshall and Thomas Jefferson
2/2001 - 5/2001
Lost Virginia: Vanished Architecture of the Old Dominion
1/2001 - 5/2001 [online exhibition]
Charting the Future: Famous Explorers and Expeditions from Virginia
12/2000 - 5/2001
A Studio Portrait: The Photography of the Dementi Family
12/2000 - 4/2001
Campaigning for President
At Virginia House - 10/2000 - 2/2001
The Virginia Landscape
7/2000 - 11/2000 [online exhibition]
Woodrow Wilson: Hinge of the Twentieth Century
3/2000 - 5/2000
Organized by the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace, Staunton
Robert Gwathmey: A Retrospective
1/2000 - 2/2000
Organized by the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Our Times: A Virginia Century
1/2000 - 5/2000
Hollywood Cemetery, 1849-1999
11/1999 - 5/2000
Chartered for History: President Warfield to Exodus 1947
11/1999 - 1/2000
Organized by the Mariner's Museum, Newport News
Robert K. Sneden's Sketches of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
11/1999 - 3/2000
About Face: Virginia Portraits at Virginia House
At Virginia House - 9/1999 - 4/2000
Treasures from Mount Vernon: George Washington Revealed
7/1999 - 9/1999
Organized by Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
Virginia's Past Today: Photographs by Chiles Larson
2/1999 - 5/1999
George Washington: The Man behind the Myths
2/1999 - 10/1999
Jamestown Fort: Rediscovered
11/1998 - 1/1999
Organized by Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
Appalachia and Beyond: Photographs by Jack Jeffers
10/1998 - 1/1999
Virginia Postcards, 1900-1925
10/1998 - 2/1999
Our Times: Photos by David Hume Kennerly
8/1998 - 10/1998
Trains that Passed in the Night: Railroad photographs by O. Winston Link
7/1998 - 10/1998
Organized by Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Eye of the Storm, Part III: Civil War Drawings of Second Manassas and Antietam by Robert Sneden
6/1998 - 11/1998
Virginia Harmony: Music in the Old Dominion
4/1998 - 9/1998
The Hundred Languages of Children
3/1998 - 4/1998
Sponsored by Richmond Public Schools
The Arts of Rockbridge County
1/1998 - 3/1998
Organized by the Rockbridge Historical Society
Aubrey Bodine's Virginia
12/1997 - 7/1998
Virginians in the Spanish-American War
11/1997 - 5/1998
The Best Draughtsman the Country Possesses: David Hunter Strother's Portraits of America
10/1997 - 12/1997
Organized by West Virginia University
The Horse in Virginia
9/1997 - 2/1998
Children at Play
6/1997 - 2/1998
Organized by the Cincinnati Historical Society
The Seven Days' Battles: Eyewitness Sketches by Robert K. Sneden
5/1997 - 10/1997
Commonwealth and Community: The Jewish Experience in Virginia
3/1997 - 9/1997
Landscapes from the Lora Robins Collection of Virginia Art
2/1997 - 5/1997
Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
2/1997 - 4/1997
Organized by the Library of Congress
Legends of Virginia
1/1997 - 8/1997
First Fitzhughs of Virginia
1/1997 - 5/1997
Vintage Photographs of Virginia State Parks, 1933-1959
12/1996-2/1997
Discover Greatness: An Illustrated History of Negro Leagues Baseball
11/1996 - 2/1997
Organized by The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Kansas City
Campaigning for President: The Allen Frey Collection
8/1996 - 12/1996
Virginia in the 1950s
8/1996 - 1/1997
Eye of the Storm: The Lost Drawings of a Union Officer
7/1996 - 12/1996
Virginians in Miniature
4/1996 - 7/1996
America's Reconstruction: People and Politics after the Civil War
3/1996 - 10/1996
Organized by The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History [online exhibition]
Titans of Steam: Virginia's Railroads
2/1996 - 7/1996
Patrick Henry: Sentinel for the People
12/1995 - 3/1996
This Being Court Day: Courthouses and Communities in Rural Virginia
8/1995 - 1/1996
Heroes of Our Heritage: The African-American Tradition
8/1995 - 11/1995
Organized by the U.S. Postal Service
V-J Day in Virginia
7/1995 - 10/1995
For Commonwealth and Country: The Virginia Militia and National Guard
6/1995 - 1/1996
Virginian Visions: Selections from the Collection of Robert M. Hicklin, Jr., Inc.
5/1995 - 1/1996
Organized by Robert M. Hicklin, Jr.
Jubilation: African-American Celebrations in the South since Emancipation
2/1995 - 4/1995
Organized by the McKissick Museum
FDR in Virginia
2/1995 - 6/1995
The West of the Boulevard Neighborhood, 1890-1930
1/1995 - 6/1995
Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend
10/1994 - 5/1995
Moving Back Barriers: The Legacy of Carter G. Woodson
10/1994 - 5/1995
Death Brings Us Together: Mourning Ceremonies in Virginia, 1750-1850
9/1994 - 2/1995
Firsts among Virginia Women
8/1994 - 2/1995
As Time Goes By: A Photo Album of the Vaughan Family, 1939-1993
4/1994 - 8/1994
Collection of Linda Montgomery
Virginia Landscapes and Townscapes in Prints
3/1994 - 9/1994
"The love of liberty brought us here:" Virginia and the Colonization of Liberia
2/1994 - 8/1994
Virginia's New Governor and Some Past Governors
1/1994 - 3/1994
Blue Ridge Folk Instruments and Their Makers
11/1993 - 3/1994
Away, I'm Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement
10/1993 - 5/1994
Escape from Virginia: African-American Response to the Fugitive Slave Laws
2/1994
New and Improved
1/1994
The Eye of W. Edwin Booth
3/1993 - 7/1993
Thomas Jefferson, His Friends and Foes
3/1993 - 6/1993
Who, What, Where, When? A Virginia Trivia Quiz
7/1993
A Treasury of Designs: Patternbook Sources for Virginia Architecture
11/1992 - 1/1993
The Portraits and History Paintings of Alonzo Chappel
9/1992 - 12/1992
Organized by the Brandywine Museum, Chadd's Ford, Pennsylvania
Portraiture in Colonial Virginia
9/1992
The White House 200th Anniversary Special Art Exhibition
9/1992 - 10/1992
Sculpture from the Permanent Collection
6/1992
The Virginia Presidential Dynasty in Portraiture
6/1992 - 1/1993
Treasures of the Commonwealth
6/1992 - 10/1992
Virginia Children
6/1992 - 10/1993
Organized by the Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, Massachusetts
"To Preserve and Hand Down:" the Virginia Historical Society, 1831-1992
6/1992 - 10/1992
Saving the S.S. Quanza: a Virginia Prelude to the Holocaust
2/1992 - 4/1992 (Loan)
V for Virginia: The Commonwealth at War, 1941-1945
12/1991 - 6/1992
Fevers, Agues, and Cures: Medical Life in Virginia, 1600-1900
10/1990 - 4/1991
"To lead and to serve:" American Indian Education at Hampton Institute, 1878-1923
5/1990 - 6/1990
Organized by Hampton Institute Museum
A Union Artist in Virginia: Edwin Forbes on Assignment, 1861-1864
7/1989 - 7/1990
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