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Student Programs
Design in Time
Join a Valentine Educator to dive into pattern and color while exploring the clothes we wear and the jobs we do.
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Fall Line and Freedom
Tour the Valentine galleries and explore how the Revolutionary War impacted three local citizens as we discuss what freedom meant in 1776, in 1865 and what it means today.
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Volunteer Inquiry
Interested in volunteering with the Valentine? Tell us a little bit about yourself using the form below and we will follow to discuss how you could get involved!
Student Programs
Whose Hat is That?
Discover hats and Richmond stories as we examine roles in our community from long ago and today!
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Our Changing Community
Examine trades and recreation activities in early Richmond through artifact investigations, games and a craft.
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Era Explorations
These programs engage secondary students in analyzing primary sources from the Valentine's collection including images, artifacts, photographs and archival materials that illuminate local impact and experience of significant moments in American history.
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Figures of Freedom: Shockoe Bottom Tour
Step into the past in Shockoe Bottom, one of Richmond’s oldest historic districts, to explore the struggles for freedom that helped shape America.
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The Lost Cause Myth: How the South Flipped the American Civil War Story
After the Civil War, Confederate supporters struggled with how they would be remembered. They created a story to justify losing the war, rewriting the facts of history. Their story was an invention known as the Lost Cause.
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Capitol Square Tour
On this guided walking tour students explore the Virginia State Capitol's history, architecture and monuments.
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Hollywood Cemetery Tour
Students explore the graves of rebels and rockers, politicians and Pulitzer prize winners, and, of course, two U.S. presidents: James Monroe and John Tyler.