Fax: (757) 566-4013 Yorktown Battlefields Route 238 and Colonial Parkway Yorktown, VA Phone: (757) 898-3400 Department of Tourism Hampton Phone: 896-4600 James City County Phone: 220-4700 Newport News Phone: 926-3561 Poquoson Phone: 868-3580 or 890-3500 Museums Adam Thoroughgood House 1636 Parish Road Virginia Beach, VA 23455 Phone: 431-4000 Mailing Address Chrysler Museum 245 W. Olney Road Hours are 10:00am-5:00pm, Tuesday- Saturday; 12:00pm-5:00pm, Sunday. A colonial house dating from 1680 has restored gardens, furnishings appropriate to period. Art Atrium, The 629 High Street Portsmouth, VA 23704 Phone: 436-5603 Offers a changing exhibit by African- American artists across Hampton Roads and an authentic African art exhibit. Host several special activities, book store and courtyard available for rent for special occasions. Babes and Bears Toy Museum 209 25 th Street Virginia Beach, VA 23451 Phone: 491-4870 Features a collection of rare beautiful and unusual dolls, dollhouses, toys and bears in this newly opened museum. Guided tours are both educational and entertaining, with over 1,000 antique to contemporary dolls and toys on display. Exhibits rotate regularly. Children s Museum of Virginia 221 High Street Portsmouth, VA 23704 Phone: 393-8393 Hours are 9:00am-5:00pm, Tuesday- Saturday, 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday, closed Monday. Offers over 60 interactive exhibits, special activities, events and programs. Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult at least 18 yrs old. Admission $6.00 for 2yrs and over. Chrysler Museum of Art, The 245 West Olney Road Phone: 664-6201 Website: www.chrysler.org Email: museum@chrysler.org Hours are 10:00am-2:00pm, Tuesday for tours thru Oct. 26, 10:00am-9:00pm, Wednesday, 10:00am-5:00pm, Thursday-Saturday, 1:00pm-5:00pm, Sunday, and closed Monday. Admission: 155
$7.00-adults, $6.00-AAA, $5.00- students, teachers, active military, seniors 65 & over. Free 12 and under. Wednesday voluntary contribution. D Art Center 125 College Place Phone: 625-4211 Fax: 625-0670 Website: www.d-artcenter.org Email: d.artcenter@rcn.com Offers a complete spectrum of visual arts ranging from contemporary works to animation drawings of cartoons. Dewitt Wallace Decorative Arts Gallery 325 W. Frances Street Williamsburg, VA 23187 Phone: 229-1000 Website: www.history.org Offers regular exhibits on accessories from the 18 th century through the present. Hampton Roads Naval Museum One Waterside Drive, Suite 248-1607 Phone: 444-8971 322-2985 Fax: 445-1867 Serves Hampton Roads. Introduces you to over two centuries of naval activity in and around the great harbor of Hampton Roads, Virginia. Your tour begins with the Battle off the Capes in 1781, a naval engagement which made possible America s victory at Yorktown. An impressive collection of ship models and retrieved underwater artifacts advance the story through the Civil War and the battle of the ironclads Monitor and Virginia. Exhibits continue with the 20 th century, including with today s Navy. The museum is located in Nauticus, the National Maritime Center on the Norfolk, Virginia waterfront. Visitors should follow road signs to Nauticus. The museum is free of charge and handicapped accessible. Public parking garages are nearby. Hermitage Foundation Museum 7637 N. Shore Road Norfolk, VA 23505 Phone: 423-2052 423-2021 Fax: 423-1604 Website: www.hermitage.org Hours are 10:00am-5:00pm, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Closed Wednesday. 1:00pm- 5:00pm, Sunday. Admission: $5.00 per person. Provides guided tours through the Tudor-style mansion and 13 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds housing an elaborate collection of Oriental and Western art; lectures; classes in art to young people and adults; public awareness and appreciation of the arts. Hunter House Victorian Museum 240 W. Freemason Street Phone: 623-9814 Website: www.hunterhousemuseum.org Open to the general public Wednesday through Saturday, April through December. Offers special tours and events through out the season. Lancaster Train and Toy Museum 5661 shoulder Hill Road Suffolk, VA 23435 Phone: 484-4224 156
Hours are 10:00am-6:00pm, Monday- Saturday. Agency has collection of toy trains and toys late 1800 s till todayfeaturing 7 operating layouts of different gauges. Museum is located in a retail toy and hobby shop, Mike s Trainland Inc. An outdoor train runs daily in Lancaster Train Park, outside of main building. The Lancaster Museum is open to the public on a donation basis. There is a voluntary donation at the door of the museum-$1.00 for outside train ride. Lightship Museum London Blvd on the Portsmouth Waterfront Portsmouth, VA 13703 Phone: 393-8741 Fax: 393-5244 Website: www.cityofportsmouth.net/museums Hours are weekends after Labor Day form 10:00am-5:00pm. Visitors can board an original vessel and see how the men of the Lightship Service lived during their months at sea. MacArthur Memorial Museum, The MacArthur Square Phone: 441-2965 Fax: 441-5389 Website: www.macarthurmemorial.org Hours are 10:00am-5:00pm, Monday- Saturday; 11:00am-5:00pm, Sunday. Provides a museum and research center which presents historical exhibits and educational programs concerning the life and times of General Douglas MacArthur and all Americans who served in the armed forces during World Wars I and II. Mariner s Museum, The 100 Museum Drive (Intersection of J. Clyde Morris & Warwick Blvd) Newport news, VA 23606-3759 Phone: 596-2222 or 1-800-581-7245 Fax: 591-7320 Open to the community daily from 10:00am-5:00pm. Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas. Administrative hours are 9:00am-5:00pm, Monday-Friday. Admission: $8.00-adults, $6.00-6-17, Free-5yrs and under. Discounts for active duty military, senior 65&over, AAA members w/valid cards. Introduces visitors to the lore of the sea. Specious galleries, showplace paintings, figure heads, ship models, navigational instruments and ship s furnishings. Changing exhibits and special lecture series-call for details. The Mariner s Museum s 550 acre park features The Noland Trail and Lake Maury. The Noland Trail is five miles long and enables the visitor to walk all the way around the main body of Lake Maury. Lake Maury offers fishing, boat and canoe rental (call for reservations), a picnic area and nature walks. Muscarelle Museum Jamestown Road at the college of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA Phone: 221-2700 221-2708 (weekends) Fax: 221-2711 Free and open to the public. Hours are closed Tuesday and Wednesday and major holidays, noon-5:00pm, Saturday and Sunday, 10:00am-4:45pm, Thursday and Friday. Nauticus The National Maritime Center 157
One Waterside Drive Phone: 664-1043 or 1-800-664-1080 Fax: 664-1025 Website: www.nauticus.org Hours are Monday closed, 10:00am- 5:00pm, Tuesday-Saturday; 12:00pm- 5:00pm, Sunday. Summer hours are 10:00am-7:00pm 7 days a week (Memorial Day weekend thru Labor Day). Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year s Day, pricing and hours subject to change. Call to confirm. Offers over 150 hands-on exhibits, Virtual Adventures, AEGIS Command and the Nauticus Theater, now showing The Living Sea, 1996 Academy Award nominee. Naval Shipyard Museum 2 High Street (High Street on Portsmouth Waterfront) Portsmouth, VA 23703 Phone: 393-8591 Fax: 393-5244 Website: www.cityofportsmouth.net/museums Hours are 10:00am-5:00pm, Tuesday- Sunday. Offers memorabilia from the Civil War, uniforms, ship models and exhibits portraying the lifestyles of 18 th and 19 th century Portsmouth. Peninsula Fine Arts Center 101 Museum Drive Newport News, VA Phone: 596-8175 Hours are closed Mondays, 10:00am- 5:00pm, Tuesday-Saturday and 1:00pm- 5:00pm, Sunday. Offering exhibits, events, programs and tours. Portsmouth Museums 420 High Street Portsmouth, VA 23704 Phone: 393-8543 Fax: 393-5228 Website: www.citypfportsmouth.net/museums Serves Hampton Roads and surrounding areas. Provides high quality educational and cultural experiences in the arts, humanities and sciences. Riddick s Folly, Inc. 510 N. Main Street P. O. Box 1722 Suffolk, VA 23434 Phone: 934-1390 Hours are 10:00am-5:00pm, Wednesday-Friday; 10:00am-4:00pm, Saturday and 1:00pm-5:00pm, Sunday. Organization is a restoration/adaptive reuse project providing a museum of history and art and sponsoring cultural events. Tidewater Arts Outreach 512 Twelve Oaks Court Chesapeake, VA 23322 Phone: 410-4010 Fax: 410-8811 Website: www.twartsoutreach.org Email: TWartsoutreach@cox.net An organization which brings music and arts to institutions including adult day programs, convalescent homes, hospitals, centers for individuals with disabilities, rehabilitation centers, and family homeless shelters. These performances, programs and activities promote human interaction, happiness and healing for people who have limited access to the arts, due to health, economic or social circumstances. 158
Tugboat Museum Norfolk, VA 23520 Phone: 627-4TUG (4884) Hours are Noon-5:00pm, Saturday and Sunday. Step aboard a living piece of history while the tugboat Huntington is docked at Nauticus in downtown Norfolk. Built in 1933, she has been restored to her former glory and is open to the public. Virginia Air and Space Center 600 Settlers landing Road Hampton, VA Phone: 727-0900 Offers hands on exhibits. Includes NASA Langley Research Center and Riverside Imax Theater. Hours are 10:00am-5:00pm, Monday-Saturday; 12:00pm-5:00pm, Sunday. Riverside open daily. Discount and combination tickets available. Children 3 & under are free. Imax Films: $7.50-adults, $6.50- military, NASA, seniors 65& over, $6.00-children 3-11. Imax Double Feature: $9.80- adults, $9.30-military, NASA seniors 65 & over, $7.80-children 3-11. Exhibit: $8.50-adults, $7.50- military, NASA, seniors 65 & over, $6.50- children 3-11. Prices subject to change. Please call for additional information. Virginia Living Museum 524 J. Clyde Morris Blvd Newport News, VA 23601 Phone: 595-1900 Fax: 599-4897 Website: www.valivingmuseum.org Hours are 9:00am-5:00pm, Monday- Saturday; 12:00pm-5:00pm, Sunday. Admission: $11.00-adults, $8.00-3-12, $3.00-Planetarium Show. Combination Tickets $13.00-adults, $10.00-3-12. Provides a museum with natural and physical science exhibits-indoor displays of native Virginia living creatures in customary surroundings; glass enclosed aviary; planetarium and observatory; outdoor native habitat areas. Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Museum 717 General Booth Blvd Phone: 437-6020 Fax: 437-6055 Website: www.vaaquarium.com Hours are 9:00am-5:00pm with extended summer evening hours. Admission: $11.95-adults, $7.95-3-11, $10.95- seniors. Aquarium and Movie Admission: $16.95-adults, $12.95-3-11, $15.95-seniors. Offers Owls Creek Marsh Pavilion; IMAX theater (call for listing of show times); sea turtle aquarium, river otter habitat; outdoor aviary; hands-on exhibits; summer and fall dolphin watching excursion; summer ocean collection trips and winter whale watching adventures. Boat trips leave from Rudee Inlet; reservations required. Prices for museum and boat trips subject to change. Virginia Sports Hall of Fame, The P.O. Box 370 206 High Street Portsmouth, VA 23705 Phone: 393-8031 Fax: 393-5228 Website: www.vshfm.com Email: info@vshfm.com Offers a wide range of sports memorabilia honoring legends from many sports. 159
Watermen s Museum 309 Water Street P. O. Box 531 Yorktown, VA 23690 Phone: (757) 887-2641 Fax: (757) 888-2089 Email: www.watermens@tri.com Hours are closed Mondays, 10:00am- 4:00pm, Tuesday-Saturday; 1:00pm- 4:00pm, Sunday. Admission: $4.00- adults, $1.00-students, children under 5- free. Provides indoor and outdoor exhibits and hands-on displays depicting the history of the working watermen, the tools used and methods employed in harvesting shellfish. Ski Resorts Bryce Resort Route 263, Exit 273 off I-81 Shenandoah Valley Phone: (540) 856-2121 Homestead-1776, The 1766 Homestead Drive Hot Springs, VA 24445 Phone: (540) 839-1766 Website: www.thehomestead.com Massanutten Route 644 Harrisonburg, VA Phone: 1-800-207-MASS (540) 289-9441 Website: www.massanuttenresort.com White-Tail Ski Resort Exit 18 Off I-270 Clear Springs, PA Phone: (717) 328-9400 Website: www.skiwhitetail.com Fly fishing thru October. Wintergreen Resort Route 664 Wintergreen, VA 22958 Phone: (434) 325-2200 Website: www.wintergreenresort.com Sports Aero model Flying Newport News, VA Phone: 591-4848 Archery Jefferson Avenue & Ft. Eustis Blvd Newport News, VA Phone: 886-7912 Fax: 928-6921 Office hours are 9:00am-5:00pm, Memorial Day thru Labor Day. Field Hockey USA Field Hockey Association 2181 Landstown Rd. Virginia Beach, VA 23456 Phone: 218-9623 Fax: 722-4317 Website: www.fieldhockey.org Flying Clubs Langley AFB Hampton, VA Phone: 764-7486 Naval Base Norfolk, VA Phone: 423-3331 Horseback Riding Langley AFB Hampton, VA Phone: 764-7881 NAS Oceana Virginia Beach, VA 160