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January 28, 2020

We had a great time hosting 1st -3rd graders from Salem Montessori today! The students had the opportunity to tour the exhibit galleries and participate in the "Let's Make a Fossil" program, led by museum educators! If you would like to schedule a class visit for your students, be sure to message us today!

January 25, 2020

We had a great time hosting Ice Age Festival 2020 on Saturday, January 25! Visitors were able to interact with paleontologists and other Ice Age experts, as they marveled over a variety of fossil displays, life-size cast skeletons and even flesh-model replicas of some of the most iconic animals of the Ice Age! Ice Age themed presentations, games, crafts and activities took place throughout the day, too! Thank you to everyone who attended this year's festival and thank you to all of our vendors and exhibitors for making the festival a huge success! Special thanks to our event sponsors: Martinsville Speedway, Martinsville-Henry County Tourism, and Charity League of Martinsville & Henry County!

January 24, 2020

Ice Age Festival and the Wild About Cats: Special Exhibit Opening is tomorrow!! We hope to see you here!!

January 23, 2020

Faye Cooper (right), member of the VMNH Board of Trustees, and Christy Deatherage (left), museum education manager, had the opportunity to speak with Senator Bill Stanley today in Richmond about the accomplishments and future goals of the museum!

January 23, 2020

We'll see you here!!

January 23, 2020

Museum leadership is in Richmond today to update the Commonwealth's leaders on all of the recent accomplishments and future goals of the museum! Here, Senator Emmett Hanger (left) chats with VMNH Foundation board member, R. Gene Smith. Senator Hanger and Smith, who is a retired Army colonel, served together in the United States Army.

January 20, 2020

Ice Age Festival and Wild About Cats: Special Exhibit Opening is this Saturday at VMNH!!

January 20, 2020

Cretaceous Seaway Virtual Reality Experience! Visitors to this Saturday's Ice Age Festival 2020 will have a bonus opportunity to be among the first to experience a new virtual realty experience created by VMNH research associate, Dr. William F. Schmachtenberg. Through the VR experience, participants will be able to swim with fierce marine reptiles that lived 87 million years ago in the central part of the United States, as well as travel back 200 million years ago and explore marine reptiles that lived during the Jurassic period!

January 14, 2020

Sustainable Habitats for Bees and Other Pollinators with Dr. Kal Ivanov, associate curator of invertebrate zoology

January 14, 2020

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January 13, 2020

We had a blast hosting over 100 Boy Scouts, parents and siblings from the greater Charlotte, N.C. area (Weddington) this past Saturday and Sunday for a "Mad Scientist" sleepover! Scouts spent Saturday evening indulging their scientific curiosities as they participated in classroom programs, such as "Solid, Liquid, or Gas?" and "Explosive Experiments"! Of course, a pizza dinner, exhibit tours and movie time were also part of the evening activities before everyone spent the night among the dinosaurs and other ancient life of the museum. For their participation, Scouts earned a museum sleepover badge and certificate! If you are interested in having your Scout Pack (or school group, or church group, or just about any kind ...

January 10, 2020

Join Dr. Kal Ivanov, VMNH associate curator of invertebrate zoology, as he presents "Helping Bees Survive: Sustainable habitat for bees and other pollinators", on Tuesday, January 14 at 7 p.m. at the historic Wayne Theatre in Waynesboro. The presentation is free to attend. Three-fourths of the world's flowering plants depend on animal pollinators to reproduce. Pollination services play a critical role in supporting and maintaining terrestrial productivity in both natural and agricultural plant communities. A large fraction of all human crops depend on the free services of pollinators and every season pollination by honeybees, native bees, and other insects delivers billions of dollars in economic value. However, declines ...

January 9, 2020

Ben Williams, science administrator at the Virginia Museum of Natural History, delighted tonight's audience with his witty take on invasive species. The presentation was part of the museum's 2nd Thursday Science Talks series, which take place at the museum on the second Thursday of each month from May through June at 6 p.m. Each talk is free to attend and covers a unique scientific topic delivered by museum curators, university professors, and other experts in a variety of scientific disciplines.