Shenandoah Valley
Field Trips

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

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.

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!

The Children’s Museum Fredericksburg features interactive exhibits that include an art studio, a pretend farm, a pretend grocery store and playground exhibits.

The Edith J. Carrier Arboretum, a woodland sanctuary, is a public urban garden and forested greenspace that preserves native plant species, promotes knowledge of the botanical and natural world.

Explore More Discovery Museum strives to engage young minds through interactive, multi-sensory learning experiences–promoting a greater understanding of themselves and their world.

Comprised of four major American Civil War battlefields and historic sites, the Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, visitors explore exhibits, view an orientation film, or go on a guided walking tour of the battlefields.

FAM’s exhibits focus on regional art, culture, and history. Programs cover the Virginia Indians, 18th-century life, the American Civil War, Civil Rights, and more. See its virtual exhibitions.

The James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library features the life of James Monroe with five galleries of exhibits that include President Monroe’s personal library and a garden.