John Marshall House
9th and Marshall Sts.
804-648-7998
Built in 1790, this house was the home of the famous Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Marshall. Today, it is one of the Court End district museums.

Museum and White House of the Confederacy
1201 E. Clay St.
804-649-1861
This house is a part of the Court End historical district. It was the official residence of Confederate president Jefferson Davis; a newer building next door houses some interesting Confederate relics.

Science Museum of Virginia
2500 W. Broad St.
804-367-6552
This museum is housed in a massive, domed, former train station. The planetarium, with its huge curved screen, doubles as a movie theater. Children and adults will find themselves engaged by exhibits on a variety of scientific themes.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
The Boulevard and Grove Ave.
804-367-0844
This world-class museum has collections that include paintings by Goya, Renoir, Monet, and van Gogh, as well as featured displays of African masks, Roman statuaries, Asian icons, and Fabergé eggs.

Jamestown Settlement
Rte. 31 off Colonial Pkwy.
757-229-1607
This "living-history" museum features a reconstructed fort staffed by guides dressed as colonists, and an "Indian Village" inhabited by buckskin-clad interpreters. The pier includes replicas of the ships that carried the settlers to the New World.

Yorktown Battlefield
Colonial Pkwy.
757-898-3400
The museum here at the site of the last battle of the Revolutionary War displays George Washington's original field tent. Dioramas, illuminated maps and a short movie tell the story.

Yorktown Victory Center
Rte. 238 off Colonial Pkwy.
757-887-1776
The center features a Continental Army encampment with tents, a covered wagon, and costumed interpreters who speak to visitors in the regional dialects of the time. Also on site are a small working tobacco farm and a museum focusing on the lives of ordinary people during the Revolution.