MSV to Host Virginia Gourd Show & Sale This Weekend
The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley (MSV) will host the Virginia Gourd Show & Sale from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, November 13 and 14. Admission to the show and sale is free.
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First Night Winchester Coloring Contest Underway
Organized by the MSV, this free coloring contest runs through December 29. One lucky participant from each age group competing in the coloring contest—tot (4 & under) child (5–7), youth (8–12), teen (13–17), adult (18–59), and senior (60+)—will win a one-year family membership to the MSV ($90 value) and more great prizes!
National Geographic Photo Ark Exhibition to Open at the MSV on September 25
Amazing photographs of some of the world’s most endangered animals taken by world-renowned photographer and conservationist Joel Sartore will be on view in the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley from September 25 through February 13, 2022, in the special exhibition National Geographic Photo Ark.
See Norman Rockwell’s America at the MSV
Dozens of Original Works and Hundreds of Vintage Saturday Evening Post Covers on view in Special Exhibition Norman Rockwell’s America February 20–August 8, 2021 Admission by Donation on Opening Day Winchester, VA 2/17/2021 . . . Works by famed artist Norman Rockwell will be on view at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley … Continued
The Trails at the MSV to Open to All on November 25
The Trails at the MSV to Open to All on November 25 Live Broadcast on MSV Facebook Page and Free Admission to Gardens and Galleries Add to the Festivity of Opening 90-acre, Free-admission Art Park Winchester, VA 11/23/20 . . . At 7 a.m. this Wednesday, November 25, 90 acres of the Museum of the … Continued
MSV Observes Breast Cancer Awareness Month with “The Bodice Project” Exhibition and Free Webinars
MSV Observes Breast Cancer Awareness Month with The Bodice Project Exhibition and Free Webinars Exhibition on View through November 1; Webinars Offered on October 1 and 10 Winchester, VA 09/30/20…The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley (MSV) is observing Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October with continuing display of the inspirational Bodice Project exhibition and two free … Continued
The Moon and the MSV
**The Trails are open 7 a.m. to dusk. We invite you to join us on our nighttime programs guided by our staff, but ask that you NOT visit the Trails at night on your own** This past Full Moon on November 19, we took a group out on the Trails to experience the nighttime environment … 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
By Curator of Collections Nick Powers 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 … Continued
The Legacy of Juneteenth: Past and Present
By Curator of Collections Nick Powers On June 19th, 1865, Union forces commanded by Major General Gordon Granger landed at Galveston, Texas, on the Gulf Coast. Two years following President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, word of their freedom finally reached the ears of the estimated 250,000 enslaved people in the South’s most isolated state (with … Continued