Frontier Culture Museum Education Programs
Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, 1290 Richmond Rd, Staunton, VA 24401
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Frontier Culture Museum Education Programs include hands-on activities that let students experience daily life in farm households in the 1600s and 1700s in England, Ireland, Germany, and West Africa. Participants visit farm animals on Old World and American exhibits and learn about heritage breeds of large and small animals and their contribution to the American frontier. The programs also include chances to interact with a blacksmith at an Irish Forge, as well as with woodworkers, tailors, and yarn spinners, and to learn how early settlers of America cooked and worked the land.
• Schedule: Teacher education programs, lectures, workshops, special programs, school field trips, classroom outreach programs, and tools and resources for homeschoolers and online educators are offered.
The mission of the Frontier Culture Museum Education Programs is to increase public knowledge of the formation of a distinctive American folk culture from a blending of European, African, and indigenous peoples. In 1975 a group of individuals proposed the creation of the museum, in 1978 the Virginia General Assembly authorized a feasibility study, and the American Frontier Culture Foundation was incorporated in 1982. The American Frontier Culture Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the Frontier Culture Museum and provides resources for student field trips, classroom outreach programs, and tools and resources for homeschoolers and online educators. Donations provide the museum with resources for teacher education programs, lectures, workshops, special programs, and school field trips. The museum is an agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia and is described as the biggest open-air living history museum in the Shenandoah Valley, an outdoor living history museum, one of the highest rated family-friendly attractions in Virginia, and one of the top tourist destinations in Virginia. Costumed historical interpreters show the life and customs of indigenous Native American tribes in Virginia, German, English and Irish settlers, and enslaved Africans, and most of the buildings were brought from each country and reassembled.
One testimonial describes a school field trip where staff were “smart, patient, and informative” and notes that each area had some kind of hands-on experience for children and adults. Another testimonial mentions friendly staff at each “Country” giving a representation of daily life for the average person a few hundred years ago and notes that most of the buildings were brought from each country and reassembled.
Last updated July 17, 2026.
• Schedule: Teacher education programs, lectures, workshops, special programs, school field trips, classroom outreach programs, and tools and resources for homeschoolers and online educators are offered.
The mission of the Frontier Culture Museum Education Programs is to increase public knowledge of the formation of a distinctive American folk culture from a blending of European, African, and indigenous peoples. In 1975 a group of individuals proposed the creation of the museum, in 1978 the Virginia General Assembly authorized a feasibility study, and the American Frontier Culture Foundation was incorporated in 1982. The American Frontier Culture Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the Frontier Culture Museum and provides resources for student field trips, classroom outreach programs, and tools and resources for homeschoolers and online educators. Donations provide the museum with resources for teacher education programs, lectures, workshops, special programs, and school field trips. The museum is an agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia and is described as the biggest open-air living history museum in the Shenandoah Valley, an outdoor living history museum, one of the highest rated family-friendly attractions in Virginia, and one of the top tourist destinations in Virginia. Costumed historical interpreters show the life and customs of indigenous Native American tribes in Virginia, German, English and Irish settlers, and enslaved Africans, and most of the buildings were brought from each country and reassembled.
One testimonial describes a school field trip where staff were “smart, patient, and informative” and notes that each area had some kind of hands-on experience for children and adults. Another testimonial mentions friendly staff at each “Country” giving a representation of daily life for the average person a few hundred years ago and notes that most of the buildings were brought from each country and reassembled.
Last updated July 17, 2026.
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