VIRGINIA
Field Trips

Visit the Alexandria Archaeology Museum to learn how the City’s archaeologists work with residents to study and manage archaeological resources important to the community’s past.

Dig deeper into black history at the Alexandria Black History Museum. Exhibits at the museum aim to promote appreciation, tolerance and understanding of all cultures.

At the American Civil War Museum view artifacts, documents, and learn about all aspects of life during the Civil War. Delve into topics such as slavery, life on the homefront and battlefront & Civil War medicine.

Located in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, American Shakespeare Center is Virginia’s premiere classical theatre at once intimate in scale and epic in imagination.

Arcadia’s demonstration farm and educational children’s garden encompasses four acres, providing a sustainable model of agriculture to new farmers, students and the public through hands-on community engagement.

Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial is the nation’s memorial to Robert E. Lee, honoring him for specific reasons including his role in promoting peace and reunion after the Civil War.

Arlington National Cemetery honors events and members from all branches of the military, and also pays respect to astronauts, nurses, chaplains, war correspondents, just to name a few.

Back Home on the Farm offers educational fun – meet farm animals, plant in the spring, earthworms in the summer, pick pumpkins and explore the corn maze in the fall, and much more.

At the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia learn about and celebrate African American history. Through documents, artifacts, pictures, and audio, the Museum preserves black history in Virginia.

The 60-acre Bluebird Gap Farm is designed to resemble a working farm, petting zoo and features farm animals and fowl of all types, and wild animals native to Virginia.

Boxerwood has unusual and rare trees and shrubs, and a learning laboratory with 400 + species of trees and shrubs. Get up close and personal with nature and definitely plan to get dirty at the Children’s Play Trail!

Branch Museum of Architecture and Design’s  purpose is to inspire our visitors to discover their role in advancing design for the public good — design that creates connections, improves lives and strengthens communities.