Virginia Living Museum

Description

The Virginia Living Museum, its pond, forest, and grounds, offer a chance to see 200 different species of native wildlife. Visitors can get up close to photograph and view wildlife in the wild or in the museum’s exhibits. Exhibits allow close-up views of bald eagle, bobcat, cedar waxwing, eastern screech owl, hooded merganser, otter, and beaver, to name a few. The Museum’s natural habitat attracts warblers, woodland birds, waterfowl, osprey, and more according to the season. The Living Museum features a native wildlife park, aquariums, living natural history exhibits, planetarium, observatory, indoor and outdoor aviaries, children’s learning garden, outdoor classroom, boardwalk at the pond’s edge, easy-to-walk woodland trail, backyard habitat display, and native botanical garden.

Directions

Physical Address: 524 J. Clyde Morris Blvd., Newport News, VA 23601

From I-64, exit onto US-17 S/J Clyde Morris Blvd, continue straight onto Avenue of the Arts/J Clyde Morris Blvd, turn left onto Deer Park Entrance and follow it to the parking area.