Best places: Museums in Richmond, United States

Museum with a varied, sizable collection of modern art, antiquities & Asian art, plus Fabergé eggs.

Kid-focused, hands-on exhibits about animals, the human body, the cosmos & the environment.

This stone house, the oldest in the city, displays photos & memorabilia of Edgar Allan Poe.

Free museum featuring powerful exhibits on the Holocaust & the survivors who settled in Richmond.

Visitor center focused on women & men on the WWII home front, plus the Rosie the Riveter Memorial.

Interactive exhibits enable kids to move, climb, farm, draw, play & learn about their world.

Tours are offered of this grand Victorian home of the first female African-American bank president.

Snug museum with exhibits & artifacts devoted to African-American history plus a gift shop & more.

Lavish Tudor mansion built in 16th-century England & moved here in the 1920s, now open for tours.

History museum exploring the Civil War from 3 perspectives: North, South & African-American.

👍👍 Great little venue on the UR campus. Easy parking with a slight walk to the hall. Excellent acoustics and comfy seats.

Historic building complex housing exhibits on the region's industrial heritage & early pioneer life.

👍👍 I went on a beautiful and warm Fall day.

A 1913 neoclassical building houses a research library & expansive collection of Virginia artifacts.

👍👍 This is one stop I thoroughly recommend if you are Richmond. Be warned though the place is huge, thought provoking and at the same time relaxing. There are many static and a few revolving exhibitions set in a beautiful building with equally beautiful gardens.

Circa-1812 landmark house turned museum with exhibits & artifacts exploring Richmond's history.

Venerable World War II ship with a storied past featuring a museum & self-guided & docent-led tours.

Museum in 19th-century dwellings with rotating exhibits, guided house tours & various themed events.

Center for learning about the Confederacy's Chimborazo Hospital & the medical field in the 1860s.

Historic home of a 19th-century Supreme Court justice preserves period furnishings & architecture.