During your stay in Virginia you'll want to explore Virginia's natural heritage by visiting the Virginia Living Museum. This Virginia museum, located in Newport News Virginia, gives visitors the opportunity to visit a cypress swamp teaming with alligators and turtles, explore an underground limestone cave, enjoy stunning observatory views, and enjoy a .75-mile hike on an elevated boardwalk with an ocean view. Besides that, visitors to the Virginia Living Museum also get to see native animals in Newport News Virginia in their natural habitats and explore native plant gardens. Sign the whole family up, because you can spend an entire day exploring this Virginia Museum.
In July 2001, the Virginia Living Museum Newport News opened the first exhibit of its recent $22.6 million expansion, the 5,500 square-foot Coastal Plain Aviary. This unique aviary houses more than 16 species of birds that either breed in Virginia or fly through the state during spring and fall migration along the coastal flyway. Some of the birds you might view inside the aviary include pelicans, cormorants, egrets, herons, ibis and ducks. Many visitors to this Virginia Museum are interested to know that all of the birds in the aviary have suffered some type of injury or have been imprinted on humans and cannot be released in the wild.
From possums to crabs, to Egrets and Herons, as well as many other types of animals in Newport News Virginia, as well as insects, this indoor/outdoor museum maintains a great variety of exhibits to entrance visitors. The Virginia Living Museum has both summer and winter hours: Winter (Labor Day to Memorial Day) Monday - Saturday, 9am to 5pm. Sunday, 12 noon to 5pm. Summer (Memorial Day through Labor Day) Daily, 9am to 5pm. Admission prices for this Virginia Museum range from $10 - $13, with discounts available to children, and museum members.
