History is Fun - At Home!
Explore Museum Resources Online.
At Jamestown Settlement and the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, history is fun – even from home! As our communities continue to manage the effects of COVID-19 to our daily lives and day-to-day operations, 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:
Take a virtual tour and experience live demonstrations of hands-on history.
• Live Webcasts: Connect with educators for FREE mini history lessons streaming live online from our museums on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
• 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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Experience the stories of America’s earliest adventures.
• Video Library: View videos on a variety of topics exploring the people and events of early Virginia.
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Enhance history with interactive digital learning experiences.
• 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.
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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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