MSV to Host Online Spring Bulb Sale July 24– August 7
Bulbs will be Available for Pickup in time for Fall Planting
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MSV to Host Free-Admission Car Show This Saturday
Car enthusiasts and gearheads will want to stop by the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley (MSV) for a free-admission antique and modified car show from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Saturday, July 15.
MSV to Host Pottery Show & Sale on June 10 & 11
The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley (MSV) and the Shenandoah Potters Guild are teaming up to host a pottery show and sale at the MSV from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, June 10 and 11. Admission to the event is free.
Outdoor Exhibition of Sculptures Made with LEGO® Bricks on View at Winchester’s MSV
A series of sculptures built with more than 800,000 LEGO® bricks will be on view throughout the seven acres of gardens at Winchester’s Museum of the Shenandoah Valley (MSV) from May 27 through September 4, 2023, when the MSV presents the award-winning traveling exhibition Sean Kenney’s Nature Connects® Made with LEGO® Bricks.
MSV to Host Heritage Plant Sale May 19 & 20
More than 100 types of plants will be available for purchase at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley (MSV) Heritage Plant Sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, May 19 and 20. Admission to the plant sale is free.
John Chumley Retrospective Exhibition to Open at the MSV
Works by one of the Shenandoah Valley’s foremost twentieth-century artists will be on view at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley (MSV) from February 25 through August 6, 2023, in the special exhibition With Lyric Brush: John Chumley’s Valley.
Queer Life & Landscape at Glen Burnie: A Garden Walk
In the 1950s, Julian Wood Glass Jr. (1910–1992), descendent of Winchester founder James Wood, and his partner, R. Lee Taylor (1924–2000), began a massive project to renovate the Glen Burnie House and beautify its surrounding grounds.
One Valley, Many Voices: A Timeline of Shenandoah Valley LGBTQ+ History
Compiled by Sally Meyer, Nick Powers, and Sam Scalph
“The worthy traditions of her sons and daughters”: A Reflection on Storer College
Curator of Collections Nick Powers discusses Storer College in Harpers Ferry, WV and the ways in which its community reflected on its history decades after emancipation.
Autumn at the MSV
“When is the best time to visit the garden?” This is a question Director of Gardens Perry Mathewes gets frequently. The short answer is “Any time we are open.” Of course, a longer more complex answer requires you to pull up a chair for this read.
Believe It or Not: Bill Cook’s “Big Basket”
Curator of Collections Nick Powers discusses the history and unique contributions of artists in the Shenandoah Valley throughout its 250 year history.
Growth, Understanding, and Civil Rights: A Ball of Confusion!
Guest blogger James R. Coates Jr., PhD, shares personal reflections inspired by photographs in the exhibition Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, on view at the MSV from April 2–July 31, 2022, and organized by art2art Circulating Exhibitions.
Finding Fleming Jordan: A Free Black Barber in the Shenandoah Valley
One of the many stories told in the new exhibition, Contributions: African Americans in the Shenandoah Valley, is that of free Blacks living in the region. Including those who were either born free or achieved their freedom through manumission (release from enslavement), free blacks in Virginia numbered approximately 58,000 people just before the Civil War … Continued
The Moon and the MSV
This past Full Moon on November 19, we took a group out on the Trails to experience the nighttime environment for the second time since opening the Trails to the public. The moon was stunning, if tough to capture on a cell phone camera. When you think about a Full Moon, what comes to mind? … Continued
National Geographic at the MSV
Was there ever a time in your life when you saw the yellow spine of a National Geographic magazine and didn’t feel even the slightest curiosity about what was inside its pages? I still remember the anticipation I would feel as a small child waiting for my dad to unwrap a new issue so I … Continued
Animals at the MSV
By Perry Mathewes, Deputy Director, Museum Operations and Director of Gardens One of the great things about working in the MSV Gardens is that you get to spend lots of time around beautiful plants and nature. Yes, there is the drudgery of weeding, mulching and other mundane tasks, but there are also sublime moments as … Continued
Climbing Jacob’s Ladder: An Artist’s Reflection on 9/11
Many of us likely recall exactly where we were the day the attacks took place on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
And the Award Goes To…Education and Rewards of Merit in the Shenandoah Valley
As Covid-19 vaccines became more readily available this spring and summer, Virginia school officials began developing strategies to restore full-time, in-person learning. Local and regional schoolteachers now face the important but unenviable task of reintroducing students to classroom settings after those students spent over a year in front of computer and tablet screens. To make … Continued