Museums
Virginia Air and Space Science Center
$25–$50A Hampton museum and NASA visitor center with aviation and space exhibits, historic aircraft, and an IMAX theater.
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Museums
Hampton University Museum
University museum on the Hampton campus, known as one of the oldest African American museums in the country.
200 William R. Harvey Way, Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668 · Hampton, VA
About Hampton University Museum
The museum sits on the Hampton University campus and holds collections that span African American fine art, African culture, Native American history, and Asian and Oceanic objects. Its galleries include a first floor focused on African traditions and a second floor with about two centuries of African American art, plus rotating exhibits. Visitors can also learn about Native Americans who studied at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. The museum's stated mission is to collect, preserve, study, and display works that show the heritage of African, Native American, Oceanic, and Asian peoples, along with contemporary African American and American Indian artists.
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What's around here?
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Hampton National Cemetery
Check pricesA historic U.S. national cemetery in Hampton, Virginia, with Civil War-era origins and graves of veterans from many conflicts.
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Fort Monroe National Monument
No admission feeA former military fort at Old Point Comfort that is now a national monument, known for its stone walls, old oak trees, and links to African American history.
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Fort Monroe
No admission feeWalk the moat and ramparts of a six-sided stone fort at Old Point Comfort, then visit the Casemate Museum and Chesapeake Bay beaches.
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The Mariners' Museum and Park
Under $25See the recovered turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor, then walk the five-mile Noland Trail around Mariners' Lake.
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Barry Art Museum
Check pricesUniversity art museum in Norfolk known for glass art, paintings, dolls and automata, and works on paper.
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