Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Kids, Teen, & Family Programs

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Kids, Teen, & Family Programs take place within the larger Virginia Museum of Fine Arts educational institution. These programs are part of the museum’s purpose to collect, preserve, exhibit, and interpret art, and to encourage the study of the arts.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is a state-supported, privately endowed educational institution created for the benefit of the citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Its stated purpose is to collect, preserve, exhibit, and interpret art, to encourage the study of the arts, and to enrich the lives of all. The museum is the only art museum in the United States that is open 365 days a year with free general admission. Its growing encyclopedic collection includes more than 50,000 works of art spanning 6,000 years of world history, with holdings that include the largest public collection of Fabergé outside of Russia and the finest collection of Art Nouveau outside of Paris. The museum also holds one of the nation’s finest collections of American art and important collections of Chinese art, English silver, French Impressionism, Postimpressionism, British sporting art, modern and contemporary art, and South Asian, Himalayan, and African art. The museum was recently named the 11th-best art museum in the United States by The Washington Post. Some programming is presented in partnership with the Richmond Jazz Society.

Last updated August 16, 2026.