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Virginia Living Museum is Celebrating Month of the Military Child with Military Discounts on Admission & Membership April 14-15, 2018

20 March 2018 by

Military Child Appreciation Weekend at Virginia Living Museum April 14-15, 2018

In a salute to military families, the Virginia Living Museum will offer 50% off admission for children accompanied by an adult with an active military ID on April 14 and 15. Military families purchasing a membership at the Museum will receive a $20 discount. These discounts are in recognition of Military Child Month.

Year-round the museum offers both admission and membership discounts to military families.

About Virginia Living Museum

Open daily 9am-5pm. Extended summer hours June 2 - Sept. 1: Thursdays 9am - 5pm.

        

YEAR-ROUND MILITARY DISCOUNT OFFER: Visit the Virginia Living Museum Admissions Desk with a MILITARY PHOTO ID and receive 10% military discount off a general membership or $1 off per family member for daily admission tickets.

Virginia’s Animal Attraction

Virginia’s natural heritage is the star at the Virginia Living Museum in Newport News. See endangered red wolves, bald eagles and a loggerhead sea turtle. Touch live spider crabs and fossilized dinosaur tracks. Living exhibits depict Virginia’s natural heritage from the mountains to the sea. Hands-on activities, an observatory, state-of-the-art digital planetarium, outdoor boardwalk, green living demonstration house, native plant and conservation gardens add to the experience.

Kids can get active at the Nature Playground with its climbing spider web, hop on mushroom shapes and talking tubes, and play Hobbit House. Indoors, future animal keepers and vets can play, learn and dream in the new permanent exhibit, “Wild & Well.” Designed primarily for preK to 3rd grade children, the exhibit offers hands-on exploration and learning about animal health with a secondary message about human health.

The VLM offers amazing nature and science programs for kids during the school year and week-long camps during the summer.  They do book up fast so register today!

Learn all the details about this amazing exhibit here!

Check out the latest events on the museum calendar 

NEW Permanent Outdoor Exhibit - Dinosaur Discovery Trail


For more than 25 years, dinosaurs have been a popular summer exhibit at the Virginia Living Museum. On Oct. 15, as part of its 50th anniversary celebration, the museum opened a permanent outdoor Dinosaur Discovery Trail.

This permanent exhibit showcases 16 of the majestic animals that ruled our earth for more than 150 million years. Visitors walk through the woods to see realistic one-third to full-size dinosaurs from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The dinosaurs range in size from a mini Ankylosaur to a 16-foot-tall Brachiosaurus. There is a baby T. rex. photo op, a half-size T. rex., plus several nests and baby dinosaurs.

The trail also includes a Paleo camp, dig pits for amateur paleontologists, and displays of dinosaur and Ice Age fossils, including an actual whale specimen from Hampton Roads.

The $500,000 project opened on October 15, 2016 and is a permanent exhibit.

Learn more about The Dinosaur Replicas, Children's Play Area and Discovery Huts 

 

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