The Virginia Museum of History & Culture is owned and operated by the Virginia Historical Society. The museum collects, preserves, and interprets 16,000 years of Virginia History through exhibitions and educational programming. Virginia history is American history. The VMHC seeks to tell inclusive stories of the Commonwealth's past so present and future generations have a full understanding of how prior events continue to shape our state and nation. The museumâs signature exhibition, The Story of Virginia, covers Native American tribes prior to European colonization, colonization and the Revolutionary War, slavery and the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Civil Rights movement and more up to the present day. Visit daily between 10 am and 5 pm.