Museum of the Shenandoah Valley

The Museum

Galleries & Exhibitions

The Shenandoah Valley Gallery exhibitions include two recreations of Valley kitchens.
 

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The Grand Tour room of the Julian Wood Glass Jr. Gallery.

 

Quickfact

The MSV will mark the Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War in 2012 by hosting a remarkable exhibition in the Museum's Changing Exhibition Gallery. Organized by the Virginia Historical Society, An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia will tell the stories of people who experienced the Civil War in Virginia. Pictured above and part of the exhibition is a detail of the painting Jackson Entering the City of Winchester, Virginia, by William D. Washington, ca. 1884 (Valentine Richmond History Center. Photo: Meg Eastman, Virginia Historical Society.).

The second level of the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley presents four main galleries comprised of eleven gallery rooms. In the Shenandoah Valley Gallery, three gallery rooms explore the sweep of Valley history, and three additional rooms display decorative arts made in the Valley from the mid-1700s to the present. The Julian Wood Glass Jr. Gallery presents the collection assembled by one of the Valley's most significant private collectors, and includes paintings, furniture, and objects illustrating the themes of portraiture, landscape, and the Grand Tour. The R. Lee Taylor Miniatures Gallery is home to a fascinating collection of furnished miniature houses and rooms, also assembled in the Shenandoah Valley, while the Changing Exhibition Gallery displays continually changing exhibitions throughout the year. An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia-Surviving War will be on view in this gallery from February 10 through June 10, 2012.

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Pictured at Top: Detail of Return from the Hunt, ca. 1650, by John Baptist Weenix (1621-1660).