Central Virginia
Field Trips

The Richmond Symphony offers classics–great orchestral masterpieces, contemporary works, and chamber concerts; creative presentations and popular music; and community programming and music education.

Rockwood Nature Center provides hands-on nature programs, where visitors can go on scavenger hunts, learn about native nature center animals, take a nature walk, and even take a beginner’s whittling class.

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.

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.

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.

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.