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Catholic Historical Society for the Roanoke Valley

Roanoke, Virginia

Historical Society

Catholic Historical Society for the Roanoke Valley in Roanoke, VA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

Center in the Square

Roanoke, Virginia

Art, History, Nature Centers, Science

The Center in the Square supports the arts and sciences by providing free housing, utilities, maintenance, marketing, and custodial services for seven cultural organizations.

Harrison Museum of African-American Culture

Roanoke, Virginia

General

Located in a Nationally Registered historic landmark, the museum is the site of the first African American high school in Southwestern Virginia. Exhibits and celebrates African American culture and heritage in Southwest Virginia. Meeting facilities available, gift shop on site.

History Museum of Western Virginia

Roanoke, Virginia

History

Museum exhibits and research library comprise the largest collection of material in the Roanoke Valley devoted solely to tracing human history. Exhibits offer a glimpse of how life was lived in southwestern Virginia, creating a vivid cultural and educational experience. Rotating exhibits allows the Museum to focus on a variety of people, industries and events that have influenced the development of the region.

Lewis Gale Medical Center

Salem, Virginia

Lewis Gale Medical Center in Salem, VA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

Mountain View

Roanoke, Virginia

History

Mountain View in Roanoke, VA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

O. Winston Link Museum

Roanoke, Virginia

History

Roanoke Center

Roanoke, Virginia

History

Roanoke Center in Roanoke, VA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

Science Museum of Western Virginia

Roanoke, Virginia

Children's, Science

The museum explores the vast diversity of science through interactive exhibits, live animals, planetariums, giant screen films, on- and off-premises outreach activities, and natural history collections.

Taubman Museum of Art

Roanoke, Virginia

Art, General, History

The new Taubman Museum of Art, an 81,000 square-foot Museum in downtown Roanoke, has been constructed. The new facility, designed by architect Randall Stout, is transforming western Virginia with an architectural achievement like no other. The facility houses state-of-the-art exhibition galleries, a stellar permanent collection, and an education center that provides innovative and exemplary education initiatives that will enhance and improve K-12 and higher education programs in the region.

The Taubman Museum of Art is the boldest public-private economic development project ever undertaken in the western region of the Commonwealth.

Volunteer Rescue Squad Museum

Roanoke, Virginia

Volunteer Rescue Squad Museum in Roanoke, VA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

Health Focus of Southwest Virginia

Salem, Virginia

Science, Specialized

Display of medical artifacts from civil war period until 1950's. Equipment, instruments with some photos. Plans for expansion displaying items currently in storage, traveling exhibits and greater involvement with schools.

Hollins University Art Gallery

Roanoke, Virginia

Art, University

Hollins has majors and minors in art history, studio art, and film and photography. The art history major studies works of art in their social, political, intellectual, and cultural contexts. Students learn to think, read, and write critically about art and to be astute interpreters of visual culture.The gallery offers seven exhibitions per year featuring the work of regionally and nationally renowned artists.

Mill Mountain Zoological Park

Roanoke, Virginia

Arboretum, Botanical Garden, Children's, Natural History, Nature Centers, Park, Science, Zoo

Mill Mountain is a 3.5-acre zoo, exhibiting over 55 species of mammals, birds and reptiles including: Siberian Tiger, Snow Leopard, Red Pandas, Japanese Macaques, bald eagle and much more. Special events and educational programs year round, picnicking, wildflower garden, café, Zoochoo train buses seasonal. AZA accredited

Museum of Earth and Life Science

Lynchburg, Virginia

Art

Museum of Earth and Life Science in Lynchburg, VA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

Olin Hall Gallery

Salem, Virginia

History

Olin Hall Gallery in Salem, VA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

Salem Museum

Salem, Virginia

History

Salem Museum in Salem, VA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

SW Virginia Ballet

Salem, Virginia

History

SW Virginia Ballet in Roanoke, VA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

Virginia Museum of Transportation, Inc.

Roanoke, Virginia

History, Military, Science, Specialized

Designated the Official Transportation Museum for the Commonwealth in 1984, the museum's mission is to preserve and interpret the heritage of the Commonwealth by collecting, restoring and exhibiting significant artifacts relating to the transportation industry.

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October 1 - October 4, 2025

Western Museums Association’s (WMA) 2025 Annual Meeting

Western Museums Association

TBA

Reno, Nevada

Save the Date for WMA 202

As we celebrate our 90th anniversary, join us to build relationships and soar higher than ever before. With the theme of ELEVATE, WMA 2025 will explore ways to lift up the experiences of cultural professionals and the communities they serve.

In Reno, Nevada, 4,400 feet above sea level, we will forward the progress of museums by looking to the future.

September 10 - September 13, 2025

2025 Am Assoc for State and Local History Annual Conference

American Association for State and Local History

TBD

Cincinnati, Ohio

The 2025 AASLH Annual Conference, in partnership with Ohio Local History Alliance, will take place as the history field makes the final preparations to kickoff off the 250th commemoration of the founding of the United States.

The 2025 conference theme, inspired by AASLH’s Making History at 250: The Field Guide for Semiquincentennial, is an opportunity to broadly explore one of the guide’s themes, The American Experiment. For many in the American colonies in 1776, independence from Britain represented a “leap into the dark” into an unknown future

We are excited for you to join us in Cincinnati as we encourage discussion about our democracy and civic institutions and how they can help strengthen understanding, inspire action, and reveal ways that all of us can participate in and shape the ongoing American experiment.

For more information, please call 615-320-3203 or email info@aaslh.org.

June 2 - June 5, 2025

American Public Gardens Association 2025 Conference - Elemental

American Public Gardens Association - APGA

Hyatt Regency Denver At Colorado Convention Center

Denver, Colorado

JOIN US AT DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS IN THE MILE-HIGH CITY IN 202

Having last hosted the conference in 2014, Denver Botanic Gardens invites you to return (or visit for the first time) in 2025 to celebrate and help shape the ELEMENTAL role public gardens play in today’s increasingly inter-connected world.

Public gardens find ourselves playing increasingly vital roles helping advance today’s greatest priorities. We are uniquely positioned to engage all people and all sectors to appreciate and better understand plants as we collectively seek to adapt to a changing climate.

While the challenges our world faces have evolved, the basic elements that shape them have not: Air, Water, Fire and Earth

The American Public Gardens Association’s Annual Conference features a variety of programs specifically designed for the needs of public horticulture professionals. Topics reflect current trends, celebrations, and issues facing our industry

The Annual Conference features sessions and workshops led by members who are experts in their fields, a large variety of local tours, a sizeable Exhibit Hall, general sessions featuring well-known Keynote and Plenary speakers, Association Awards, in-conference networking events, and so much more!

June 24 - June 27, 2025

Association of Academic Museums And Galleries Annual Conference 2025

Association Of Academic Museums And Galleries

TBA

Albuquerque, New Mexico

AAMG 2025 – UNM Albuquerqu

June 24-27, 202

University New Mexico Art Museu

Albuquerqu

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