A list of Museums and Art Galleries in the United States
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A list of Museums and Art Galleries in Virginia
Virginia - Museums and Art Galleries in Virginia, including non-profit art centers and galleries, government entities, and private businesses.
NAME | LOCATION | TELEPHONE & WEBSITE | SUMMARY |
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum | 326a West Francis Street, Williamsburg, VA 23185 | Telephone: 888-965-7254 colonialwilliamsburg.com |
Art is in the eye of the beholder. In the galleries of the folk art museum, you'll discover an amazing variety of paintings, sculptures, and other objects created by talented, self-trained artists and craftsmen. In fact, it's one of the largest collections of American folk art. |
Arts Center @ 319 | 319 Main St, Smithfield, VA 23430 | Telephone: 757-357-7707 www.smithfieldarts.com |
The Collage, a commercial art gallery, first opened to the public June 15, 1991 and within a few years, the operation of the renamed Smithfield Cultural Arts Center was assumed by the Isle of Wight Arts League, a non-profit organization dedicated to the development and recognition of the arts as an important, multi-cultural contributor to the well-being and growth of the community. |
Arts Depot | 314 Depot Square SW, Abingdon, VA 24210 | Telephone: 276-628-9091 abingdonartsdepot.org |
The Arts Depot was established in 1990 as a non-profit, community-based art gallery whose mission is “to promote and support regional artists through working artist’s studios and gallery exhibits and to provide educational opportunities for the community.” |
Athenaeum | 201 Prince St, Alexandria, VA 22314 | Telephone: 703-548-0035 http://www.nvfaa.org/ |
Historic, beautiful, intimate, and inviting, the Athenaeum is home to the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association (NVFAA). The NVFAA strives to establish premier arts programs that enrich the cultural life of Northern Virginia and beyond. |
Charles Taylor Arts Center | 4205 Victoria Blvd, Hampton, VA 23669 | Telephone: 757-727-1490 https://www.hamptonarts.net/ |
Visual arts center, presents eight changing exhibitions each year |
Chrysler Museum of Art | 1 Memorial Pl, Norfolk, VA 23510 | Telephone: 757-664-6200 http://www.chrysler.org/ |
One of the largest and most comprehensive collections of glass in the world, with more than 10,000 glass objects spanning 3,000 years; Collection of American painting and sculpture is one of its greatest glories; Collection of modern European and American art is remarkable both for its variety and its succession of individual masterpieces; The Chrysler’s galleries of ancient and non-western art encompass its collection of Egyptian, Greco-Roman, Islamic, East Asian, African and Pre-Columbian material. The collection of works produced since 1945 includes names such as Pollock, Rothko, Lichtenstein and Warhol. |
Daura Gallery | 1501 Lakeside Dr, Lynchburg, VA 24501 | Telephone: 434-544-8343 http://www.lynchburg.edu/ |
Lynchburg College has assembled a collection that includes works by Virginia folk artist Queena Dillard Stovall, works by Lynchburg artist Georgia Morgan, African art, photographs by Andy Warhol, and works on paper by American and European artists. |
Depot Gallery | 814 West Broad St Richmond, VA 23284 | Telephone: 804-828-6506 http://depot.vcu.edu/ |
Built in 1907 as a station for the Richmond-Ashland trolley line, the Depot has undergone a state-of-the-art renovation, which has modernized the building while preserving its historical character. The Depot houses a new facility dedicated to interdisciplinary collaborations, events and creative entrepreneurship education. |
Eleanor D. Wilson Museum | 8009 Fishburn Dr, Roanoke, VA 24020 | Telephone: 540-362-6532 https://www.hollins.edu/ |
Paintings, photographs, and works on paper acquired by generations of Hollins University art professors and alumnae form the basis of our collection. Now, the museum actively collects work by internationally recognized artists working today. |
Ferguson Center for the Arts | 1 Avenue of the Arts, Newport News, VA 23606 | Telephone: 757-594-7448 http://fergusoncenter.org/ |
In just 11 years, Christopher Newport University’s Ferguson Center for the Arts has become an international force, presenting the finest cultural attractions in the world. Nearly 2 million people from around the world have experienced more than 600 hundred performances in our acoustically superb theaters. |
Flippo Gallery | Randolph-Macon College Ashland, VA 23005 | Telephone: 804-752-3018 http://www.rmc.edu/ |
The Flippo Gallery is a space dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary works of art by professional artists. Artists exhibiting at the Flippo Gallery, emerging and established, present work in a variety of media addressing a wide range of conceptual concerns. |
Fralin Museum of Art | 155 Rugby Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903 | Telephone: 434-924-3592 uvafralinartmuseum. virginia.edu |
The permanent collection of The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia consists of nearly 14,000 objects. In support of our academic mission, the Museum provides opportunities for study and scholarship through direct engagement with the collection and virtual access through digital resources. |
Gallery 5 | 200 W Marshall St, Richmond, VA 23220 | Telephone: 804-510-0488 http://gallery5arts.org/ |
Gallery5 is an award-winning, community-motivated visual and performing art center that has become a premier arts venue for local and regional audiences. Through extensive collaboration with cultural, educational, environmental and social organizations, Gallery5 continues to broaden demographics by encouraging a more diverse, inclusive, and inspired region of art supporters. |
Gari Melchers Home | 224 Washington St, Fredericksburg, VA 22405 | Telephone: 540-654-1015 garimelchers.umw.edu |
More than a hundred years later, the story of Gari and Corinne Melchers lives on in their home, Belmont. Be a part of this story. Come and explore this unique historic home, tour stunning studio and art galleries, visit the restored gardens, shop in our museum store, and explore our trails. |
Greater Reston Arts Center | 12001 Market St #103, Reston, VA 20190 | Telephone: 703-471-9242 http://restonarts.org/ |
The Greater Reston Arts Center (GRACE) enriches community life by promoting involvement and excellence in contemporary visual arts. In pursuit of this mission, GRACE provides a year-round program of contemporary visual art exhibitions, education programs for all ages, and special events. |
Hampton University Museum | 100 E Queen St, Hampton, VA 23669 | Telephone: 757-727-5308 museum.hamptonu.edu |
The collections feature over 9,000 objects including African American fine arts, traditional African, Native American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Island, and Asian art; and objects relating to the history of the University. Within its fine arts collection is the largest existing collection of works in any museum by the artists John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, Richmond Barthe and Samella Lewis. |
Herndon ArtSpace | 750 Center St, Herndon, VA 20170 | Telephone: 703-956-6590 www.artspaceherndon.com |
Arts Herndon is the product of the merger of two separate Herndon arts organizations, the Council for the Arts of Herndon and the Herndon Foundation for the Cultural Arts. As The Council for the Arts we supported, and continue to support artists and the arts, and have provided over $140,000 in arts scholarships to local students, the 5 public murals visible in the Town of Herndon and arts outreach in public schools, senior centers, festivals and public spaces. |
Hunt Gallery | 218 Hunt Drive, First Floor, Hunt Dining Hall, Staunton, VA 24401 | Telephone: 540-887-7196 www.marybaldwin.edu |
Contemporary art gallery of Mary Baldwin College. Hunt Gallery is dedicated to the exhibition of art that has a conceptual and/or aesthetic grounding in the contemporary art dialogue. The Gallery exhibits work in all media by regionally and nationally recognized and emerging artists. |
James Madison University Galleries | Duke Hall MSC 7101 820 S. Main Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807 | Telephone: 540-568-6661 https://www.jmu.edu/ |
Includes the Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Art, the Festival Conference and Student Center with the Lisanby Museum, Prism Gallery and Prism International Gallery, the New Image Gallery, and artWorks Gallery |
Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection | 400 Worrell Drive, Peter Jefferson Place, Charlottesville, VA 22911 | Telephone: 434-244-0234 http://www.kluge-ruhe.org/ |
The only museum in the United States dedicated to the exhibition and study of Australian Aboriginal Art |
Longwood Center for the Visual Arts | 129 N Main St, Farmville, VA 23901 | Telephone: 434-395-2206 http://lcva.longwood.edu/ |
The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts is the only museum of its kind, scope, and size in the 7,000-square-mile area surrounding our home base, Prince Edward County. Our commitment to improving the quality of life in the region by providing full access to the visual arts is the heart of our mission. At the LCVA, we believe there should be no barriers to exploration of the visual arts. |
Lynchburg Academy of Fine Arts | 600 Main St, Lynchburg, VA 24504 | Telephone: 434-846-8499 https://academycenter.org/ |
Arts center, includes the Ann White Academy Gallery and Art Up Front, located in the Academy of Music |
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College | 1 Quinlan St, Lynchburg, VA 24503 | Telephone: 434-947-8136 http://maiermuseum.org/ |
The Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College houses an outstanding collection of American art, chiefly paintings, works on paper, and photographs dating from the 19th and 20th centuries. Located on the RC campus and open to visitors year-round, the Museum serves both the academic community and the general public. |
McGuffey Art Center | 201 2nd St NW, Charlottesville, VA 22902 | Telephone: 434-295-7973 www.mcguffeyartcenter.com |
McGuffey Art Center is one of the oldest artist-run cooperative art centers in the country. We have over 150 members - artists who have studios in and out of the building, who show in the galleries at the art center, host workshops, teach classes, give free tours to groups of students, participate in art camps in the summer, and put time and care into committee work - together we make McGuffey run |
Miles B. Carpenter Folk Art Museum | 201 Hunter St, Waverly, VA 23890 | Telephone: 804-834-3327 milesbcarpentermuseum.com |
The Museum serves and promotes the arts in the immediate communities of Sussex, Surrey, and Prince George Counties and the greater Petersburg tri-city area. |
Muscarelle Museum of Art | 603 Jamestown Rd, Williamsburg, VA 23185 | Telephone: 757-221-2700 http://muscarelle.org/ |
Of particular note are Colonial American and English seventeenth and eighteenth century portraits; a survey collection of original prints and drawings from the fifteenth through the twenty-first centuries representing both American and European artists, as well as a selection of Japanese prints, a collection of German Expressionist works by Hans Grohs, and the Jean Outland Chrysler collection of American modern works interpreted in oils, drawings, watercolors, and sculpture. |
National Sporting Library & Museum | 102 The Plains Rd, Middleburg, VA 20117 | Telephone: 540-687-6542 http://nationalsporting.org/ |
Hosts art exhibitions related to horses and field sports. The inviting, 6-acre campus, world-class research Library, and fine art Museum highlight the rich heritage and tradition of country pursuits |
Peninsula Fine Arts Center | 101 Museum Dr, Newport News, VA 23606 | Telephone: 757-596-8175 http://pfac-va.org/ |
The Center’s mission includes providing a balanced and stimulating exhibition program, acting as an important resource for local artists, and fostering art education. To that end, PFAC hosts several major exhibitions a year, presents classes for students of all ages at its Studio Art School, offers online distance-learning programs, and hosts special events including curator talks, poetry readings and art-movie screenings. |
Piedmont Arts | 215 Starling Ave, Martinsville, VA 24112 | Telephone: 276-632-3221 http://www.piedmontarts.org/ |
Visual and performing arts center, features museum with exhibitions by international, national and regional artists in its seven galleries |
Portsmouth Art & Cultural Center | 420 High St, Portsmouth, VA 23704 | Telephone: 757-393-8543 portsmouthartcenter.com |
The Portsmouth Art & Cultural Center, housed in the 1846 Courthouse, is devoted to offering quality educational, cultural and aesthetic experiences in the arts through rotating visual art exhibits, lectures, classes and performances. |
Radford University Art Museum | Radford University, 801 East Main St., Radford, Virginia 24142 | Telephone: 540-831-5000 http://www.radford.edu/ |
The Radford University Art Museum houses more than 1200 works of art, including 200+ student works. Noteworthy collections among the Art Museum’s holdings are the largest collection of works by New York artist Dorothy Gillespie (more than 80 works), 281 works on paper by Adolf Dehn, nearly 60 works by Harold Little, and the Kolla-Landwehr Foundation collection of 60 Huichol yarn paintings. Additionally, the museum owns some 250 works from the estate of Betty Parsons, a major art dealer in New York. |
Reeves Center and Watson Pavilion | Washington and Lee University 204 W. Washington St. Lexington, VA 24450 | Telephone: 540-458-8400 https://www.wlu.edu/ |
Part of Washington and Lee University, Asian art and ceramics, also includes Japanese Tea Room |
Stage Door Gallery | 301 Mason Ave, Cape Charles, VA 23310 | Telephone: 757-331-3669 artsentercapecharles.org |
Arts Enter was incorporated in 1997 as a not-for-profit organization. It is governed by a Board of Directors who represent cultural, educational and business diversities of the community. Arts Enter closed the Stage Door Gallery at year-end 2015. |
Suffolk Art Gallery | 118 Bosley Ave, Suffolk, VA 23434 | Telephone: 757-514-7284 http://www.suffolkva.us/ |
Community art gallery, operated by the Suffolk Art League |
Sweet Briar College Art Galleries | 134 CHAPEL ROAD, SWEET BRIAR, VA 24595 | Telephone: 434-381-6100 http://oldweb.sbc.edu/ |
Includes the Pannell Gallery and two satellite galleries. Both Babcock and Benedict galleries also serve as spaces for talks and social events and Babcock Gallery is occasionally used as a teaching and performance space by theater and dance faculty. |
Taubman Museum of Art | 110 Salem Ave SE, Roanoke, VA 24011 | Telephone: 540-342-5760 www.taubmanmuseum.org |
Formerly the Art Museum of Western Virginia, focus is American art, particularly Western Virginia and the Appalachian region |
This Century Art Gallery. Williamsburg Contemporary Art Center | 110 Westover Ave, Williamsburg, VA 23185 | Telephone: 757-229-4949 https://visitwcac.org/ |
Williamsburg Contemporary Art Center exhibits a wide variety of contemporary paintings, sculptures, and crafts by outstanding local, regional and national artists. |
Torpedo Factory Art Center | 105 N Union St, Alexandria, VA 22314 | Telephone: 703-746-4570 http://torpedofactory.org/ |
Founded in 1974 in an old munitions plant, the Torpedo Factory Art Center is home to the nation’s largest collection of working-artists’ open studios under one roof. |
University of Virginia Galleries | Charlottesville, VA 22904 | Telephone: 434-924-0311. http://arts.virginia.edu |
Includes the Ruffin Gallery for contemporary art, history exhibits at the Harrison Institute, The Niche moving image exhibition project in the Fine Arts Library, John P. and Stephanie F. Connaughton Gallery for student work in the McIntire School of Commerce |
Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art | 2200 Parks Ave, Virginia Beach, VA 23451 | Telephone: 757-425-0000 http://www.virginiamoca.org/ |
The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art is a non-profit institution which exists to foster awareness, exploration, and understanding of the significant art of our time. Through excellence and diversity in our changing exhibitions and educational programming, MOCA stimulates critical thinking and dialogue throughout the Hampton Roads community. |
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | 200 N Blvd, Richmond, VA 23220 | Telephone: 804-340-1400 https://vmfa.museum/ |
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts houses a remarkable permanent collection of more than 35,000 works of art from almost every major world culture. Especially noteworthy are the museum’s collections of Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Modern and Contemporary American art donated by Sydney and Frances Lewis; French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art and British sporting art given by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon; American art acquired through the J. Harwood and Louise B. Cochrane Fund; The Lillian Thomas Pratt Collection of Fabergé jeweled objects; and The Jerome and Rita Gans Collection of English Silver. The museum’s holdings of South Asian, Himalayan, and African art are among the finest in the nation. |
Virginia Tech Galleries | 800 Washington Street, SW, Suite 150 Blacksburg, VA 24061 | Telephone: 540-231-6000 http://www.gallery.vt.edu/ |
Includes the Armory Gallery, gallery in the Holtzman Alumni Center, Norris Hall Art Gallery, Perspective Gallery in the Squires Student Center, Moss Arts Center with three visual arts galleries |
Visual Arts Center of Richmond | 1812 W Main St, Richmond, VA 23220 | Telephone: 804-353-0094 https://www.visarts.org/ |
Visual art gallery and performing arts center |
William King Museum of Art | 415 Academy Dr NW, Abingdon, VA 24210 | Telephone: 276-628-5005 williamkingmuseum.org |
The William King Museum of Art is the premier visual arts facility in the region, offering outstanding fine world art, contemporary regional art and cultural heritage exhibits that change frequently, giving visitors a new experience each time they walk through our doors. |
Workhouse Arts Center | 9518 Workhouse Rd, Lorton, VA 22079 | Telephone: 703-584-2900 www.workhousearts.org |
To become regionally and nationally recognized as an innovative collaboration of visual and performing arts, education, community engagement, historical perspective and personal enrichment. |