Central Virginia
Field Trips

The Science Museum of Virginia offers experiential exhibits, interactive technologies, innovative programs, dynamic films, impressive live animals and interesting lab demos for visitors.

Tour the Supreme Court of Virginia, directly across from the Virginia Capitol building, and see the main courtroom, lectures, a visitor film, and exhibits. Oral arguments are open to the public.

Explore the John Marshall House, home of Chief Justice John Marshall who was known as the “Greatest Man Never to be President.”

The Living Earth School is a nature-based educational organization, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of central Virginia in the Charlottesville area.

Three Lakes Park & Nature Center is a science center with a 50,000 gallon aquarium and exhibits on plant and animal life. Three Lakes Park and Nature Center bring together the three worlds of air, water, and land to explore.

Tuckahoe Plantation, the boyhood home of Thomas Jefferson, is a colonial plantation considered one of the most complete existing 18th century plantation layouts in North America.

University of Richmond Museums are comprised of the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature, and the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center.

The Virginia Discovery Museum is a children’s museum with hands on exhibits and activities in science, literacy, social studies themes.

Visit the Virginia Holocaust Museum, dedicated to educating the community of the events of the Holocaust as experienced by victims of the event.

Featuring art from almost every major culture, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts houses a vast range of genres including ancient art, Asian and African art, and extensive holdings in modern European and American art.

Experience 18th century colonial lifestyles and history at the Wilton House Museum. Once a house that entertained Virginia elites and travelers such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.