The 10 Best Museums in Williamsburg, Virginia (VA)

This Century Art Gallery exhibits a wide variety of contemporary paintings, sculpture, and crafts by outstanding regional and national artists. The Gallery, adjacent to Merchants Square and the Historic Area in Williamsburg, Virginia, occupies a unique 1920 Sears Roebuck house that was modernized in the 1980s.The gallery also leases a 1,400 sq. ft. space in the Williamsburg Crossing Shopping Center to conduct its expanding art education programs. Classes and workshops for adults and children are held at the facility on a continuing basis. The gallery is open Tuesday - Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and closed Mondays. It is free and open to the public.

Art to buy. Art classes to learn. And an art studio to create. We feature an eclectic blend of vintage and contemporary folk art in many media mostly by local artists. We also blend in 100+-year-old books, engravings and maps - art and history all in one. In our studio, we teach classes in ceramics and mixed media for groups and individuals. Our mini-classes are 2-hour lessons with our artist-in-residence and are perfect to spend a few creative hours while visiting. Traveling artists needing a studio can also use our open studio. Book binding and restoration services are available onsite.

A fine American crafts and art shop with a focus on handmade pottery ~ we also feature locally made woodworking, metal, glass, textiles, paintings, and prints.

Ladies & Gents - kids of ALL ages! A new show-stopping adventure two years in the making has come to Williamsburg... It's The Sideshow! A unique destination shopping experience featuring art glass, furniture, handcrafted jewelry, stunning ceramics, and curiosities and oddities-a-plenty!

The Linda Matney Gallery is dedicated to curating and developing innovative exhibitions and collections showcasing painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, video and performance for audiences and private patrons in Virginia and elsewhere. "The primary concern of The Linda Matney Gallery is to exhibit the work and ideas of the most significant artists of our time." John Lee Mat

Historic Jamestowne is the original site of the first permanent English settlement in America. Ongoing archaeology at the site of James Fort has changed our understanding of the struggles and triumphs of early 1600s life in Virginia. Living history programs and an archaeology museum tell the story of this dramatic rediscovery. The site is jointly administered by the National Park Service and Preservation Virginia.

Colonial Williamsburg is the only place that takes you back in time to the dawn of America. This isn't just a place where things once happened. They're happening, right now, here in the 18th century. We're the place where the idea of our country is being born; the place where the ideals we stand for as Americans are being defined. We are the 18th century "live," filled with the stories of the women, men, and children—free and enslaved—whose values and visions gave us a new world. Step back in time and meet the people who made America—sing with them, dance with them, eat with them, and have fun with them. For every person who wants to understand this country, this is your place.