History At Home

Explore Museum Resources Online

Jamestown Settlement and the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown have reopened to visitors! With your well-being in mind, we have established new protective protocols and social-distancing procedures to carefully create a safe environment for everyone to enjoy.

As our communities continue to manage the effects of COVID-19 to our daily lives, we wanted to share a variety of entertaining, engaging and educational online resources available for you to enjoy with your family at home. Here’s how you can experience our museums and explore the past using a desktop or mobile device.

Discover hands-on history demonstrations and take a virtual museum tour.

• Virtual Learning Experiences: New online education programs that meet the needs of virtual or hybrid at-home learning for teachers and students during the 2020-2021 school year.

• Live Webcasts for Kids: Connect with educators to discover “Unpacking the Past” during FREE 30-minute learning opportunities streaming live on Wednesdays at 10 a.m.

• Virtual Lecture Series: Free virtual lectures from historical experts link storylines found in the museums’ galleries and connect America’s past with its progression to the present.

• Hands-On Demonstrations: Test out your 17th- and 18th-century skills with video tutorials from historical experts.

• Jamestown Gallery App: Download the Jamestown Settlement app on Google Play or the Apple App Store.

• Yorktown Gallery App: Download the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown app on Google Play or the Apple App Store.

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Enhance history with interactive activities and stories of America’s earliest adventures.

• Video Library: View videos on a variety of topics exploring the people and events of early Virginia.

• Facebook, Instagram & Twitter: Engage with a constant stream of exciting content when you follow us on social.

• Legacy Wall: Explore legacies of the past and their impact on the present using this digital timeline.

• Liberty Tree: Share what liberty means to you with the world in this online and on-site interactive.

• Artifactually Yours: Determine which 17th-century artifact you’d match with in this personality quiz.

• How Revolutionary Are You?: Play this online quiz to be paired with your revolutionary counterpart.

• Colonial Cooking: Try making recipes from the past in today’s kitchen.

• Colonial Coloring Book: Bring the world of early America to life with eight pages of coloring fun.

• Colonial Puzzles: Explore early America with colonial crossword and word search puzzles.
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Discover educational assets that expand history beyond the textbook.

• Blog Posts: Learn from top scholars and historians as they examine life in 17th- and 18th-century Virginia.

• Teaching Tools: Access curriculum-based lesson plans, essays and activities designed for teachers and students. 

• Learning Center: Dig deeper using our collection of educational materials that encourage further exploration of America’s beginnings.

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