The Valentine Launches Walking Tours Throughout Richmond
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 12, 2022
Contact:
Meredith Mason, APR
Director of Public Relations & Marketing
mmason@thevalentine.org
The Valentine Launches Walking Tours Throughout Richmond
RICHMOND – This weekend, The Valentine will begin its 2022 walking tour season, which explores neighborhoods and historic sites across Richmond. Each tour reveals little-known stories throughout history that shaped Richmond today. In addition to offering popular traditional tours and the groundbreaking augmented reality tour of Monument Avenue which first launched last summer, The Valentine will debut several new experiences.
The inaugural tour will begin at The Valentine on Saturday, April 16 at 10:00 a.m., with a complimentary breakfast served at 9:00 a.m. The tour will explore the museum’s own historic Court End neighborhood. One of the oldest Richmond neighborhoods, Court End is full of diverse stories of early Richmonders and surviving architectural gems nestled among the ever-evolving city center.
Tours are scheduled for Saturdays, Sundays and Thursdays between April 16 and October 29. The walking tours offered this year include:
- Origin Stories: Court End
- Murals of Jackson Ward
- Highlights of Hollywood Cemetery
- History of Church Hill
- Figures of Freedom (Shockoe Bottom & Downtown)
- Monument Avenue: Origins and Reverberations Augmented Reality
- Ballot Battle: Richmond Suffrage (Downtown)
- Barton Heights: Northside
- Shockoe Hill Cemetery
Valentine Members also receive access to Director’s Tours of Church Hill, Shockoe Hill Cemetery and Northside led by Director Bill Martin.
“We’re telling some fascinating and meaningful stories that most Richmonders haven’t heard before,” said Martin. “It’s important to us to tell these stories in the places they happened. This year, we expanded our tours to include Barton Heights and Shockoe Hill Cemetery – two historically significant sites that have not seen the love and recognition they deserve.”
The full tour schedule can be found at https://thevalentine.org/events/. Tours are $20 for adults, $10 for Valentine Members and free for children under 18. Private groups and self-guided tours are also available through The Valentine’s website.
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The Valentine has been collecting, preserving and interpreting Richmond’s 400-year history for over a century. Located in the heart of historic downtown, the Valentine is a place for residents and tourists to discover the diverse stories that tell the broader history of this important region.
