Famous Museums in Williamsburg

Let's explore the finest collection of museums in Williamsburg:

1. Jamestown Settlement

   4.7 (630 Votes)
   

   Museum, History Museum, Educational Site, Archaeological Site

   Jamestown Settlement is a living history museum where costumed interpreters portray the life of a resident of Jamestown in the 17th century. It is a comprehensive reconstruction of the life and times of the early English settlers and the settlement is situated adjacent to Historic Jamestowne. It was in the 19th century that the first efforts were made at historical preservation and since then, ...Read more

2. DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum

   4.8 (327 Votes)
   

   Art Museum, Museum, Outdoors, Observatory

   The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum is one of the attractions at Colonial Williamsburg. The museum is named after DeWitt Wallace who was one of the founders of the Reader’s Digest magazine. The museum was opened in 1985. The museum, unlike the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum which is focussed on folk art, is dedicated to “finer things”. You enter the museum thro...Read more

3. Public Hospital Museum

   

   Museum, Educational Site, Specialty Museum

   The Public Hospital Museum was actually the first mental hospital in North America. It admitted its first patient in 1773. It used to be known as Public Hospital for Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds. The idea back then was the mental illness was a disease of the brain and a mentally ill person had chosen to behave that way and was acting irrational. Treating the patients included horrific...Read more

4. Ripley's Believe It Or Not!

   4.2 (218 Votes)
   

   Outdoors, Entertainment, Exhibition , Specialty Shop

   The museum or “odditorium” is worth visiting if you revel in the weird and the peculiar. This museum will give you a chance to see things like shrunken heads, a prehistoric shark’s jaw, a real vampire killing kit, and a 12 foot tall Transformer sculpture made out of scrap parts! The museum really gives weight to something that Robert Ripley himself said: “Some of the mos...Read more

5. Williamsburg Walking Tours

   

   Museum, Walking Area, Adventure, Specialty Museum

   Experience the historical significance and importance of Williamsburg a little differently. Williamsburg Walking Tours provide for a walking adventure through the largest living museum of colonial history. Hear as your guides walk you through several important events and sites and recount various legends of this historical town. There are three different types of tours available: Walk About Hi...Read more

6. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum

   4.8 (334 Votes)
   

   Art Museum, Museum, Educational Site

   The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum is a museum located within the confines of the living history museum of Colonial Williamsburg that was founded in 1957. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller was the wife of John D. Rockefeller Jr. who founded Colonial Williamsburg. She donated her folk art collection at various places such as the Ludwell-Paradise House, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum ...Read more

7. Colonial Williamsburg Historic Area

   4.6 (20 Votes)
   

   Museum, Historical Site

   Colonial Williamsburg Historic Area in Williamsburg, Virginia is a first-hand insight into life in colonial settlements in the 18th century. This tourist attraction boasts of actors in period costumes, historical buildings restored and preserved for authenticity and people going about their business, just like they would in colonial America. All of the above makes Colonial Williamsburg Histori...Read more

8. Muscarelle Museum Of Art

   4.4 (84 Votes)
   

   Art And Culture, Art Museum, Educational Site, Exhibition

   The Muscarelle Museum of Art is an art museum at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. The artworks within the museum have been collected since 1732 as the college kept receiving various gifts of arts and several treasures. After realising by the 1970, that the college owned a sizeable art collection, efforts were then made to preserve it by establishing an art museum. Thro...Read more

9. Colonial Williamsburg

   4.5 (64 Votes)
   101 Visitor Center Dr
   Museum