Frontier Culture Museum Education Programs and Camps
Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, 1290 Richmond Rd, Staunton, VA 24401
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Frontier Culture Museum Education Programs and Camps include many hands-on activities where participants interact with a blacksmith at an Irish Forge and with woodworkers, tailors, and yarn spinners. The program also includes activities where participants learn how the early settlers of America cooked and how they worked the land. All education programs are available to all ages and include age-appropriate content and activities.
The mission of the Frontier Culture Museum is to increase public knowledge of the formation of a distinctive American folk culture from a blending of European, African, and indigenous peoples. The museum features Old World exhibits where visitors can experience daily life in farm households in the 1600s and 1700s in England, Ireland, Germany, and West Africa, along with costumed historical interpreters who show the life and customs of the indigenous Native American tribes in Virginia. Exhibits also include interpretation of the arrival of the German, English, and Irish settlers along the Great Wagon Road and the painful journey of the enslaved Africans to the first permanent British colony in North America. In 1975 a group of individuals proposed the creation of the museum, in 1978 the Virginia General Assembly authorized the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation to prepare a feasibility study, and the American Frontier Culture Foundation was incorporated in 1982 as a tax-exempt organization. The American Frontier Culture Foundation provides resources for student field trips, classroom outreach programs, and specially curated tools and resources for homeschoolers and online educators, and it supports summer camp scholarships, lectures, exhibit materials, and school field trips to the museum. One visitor described staff on a school field trip as smart, patient, and informative, and noted that each area had some kind of hands-on experience for children and adults to participate in. Another visitor described friendly staff at each “Country” exhibit and noted that most of the buildings were brought from each country and reassembled.
Last updated January 1, 2026.
The mission of the Frontier Culture Museum is to increase public knowledge of the formation of a distinctive American folk culture from a blending of European, African, and indigenous peoples. The museum features Old World exhibits where visitors can experience daily life in farm households in the 1600s and 1700s in England, Ireland, Germany, and West Africa, along with costumed historical interpreters who show the life and customs of the indigenous Native American tribes in Virginia. Exhibits also include interpretation of the arrival of the German, English, and Irish settlers along the Great Wagon Road and the painful journey of the enslaved Africans to the first permanent British colony in North America. In 1975 a group of individuals proposed the creation of the museum, in 1978 the Virginia General Assembly authorized the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation to prepare a feasibility study, and the American Frontier Culture Foundation was incorporated in 1982 as a tax-exempt organization. The American Frontier Culture Foundation provides resources for student field trips, classroom outreach programs, and specially curated tools and resources for homeschoolers and online educators, and it supports summer camp scholarships, lectures, exhibit materials, and school field trips to the museum. One visitor described staff on a school field trip as smart, patient, and informative, and noted that each area had some kind of hands-on experience for children and adults to participate in. Another visitor described friendly staff at each “Country” exhibit and noted that most of the buildings were brought from each country and reassembled.
Last updated January 1, 2026.
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