Valentine Richmond History Center

The Valentine has been collecting, preserving and interpreting Richmond's 400-year history for over a century. Located in the heart of historic downtown, the Valentine is a place for residents and tourists to discover the diverse stories that tell the broader history of this important region. A comprehensive program of exhibitions, tours, special events, research opportunities, school programs...

Give yourself at least an hour to tour the museum, then 30 minutes for the Wickham House tour.

The museum has a gift shop with cards, collectibles and Virginia-inspired items.

For more than 100 years, the Valentine Richmond History Center, established in 1898, has celebrated one of America's most historic cities. It has collected more than a million objects—one of the nation's largest collections focusing on a single city—including preserved photographs, textiles, and artifacts, and interprets 400 years of Richmond's history through items of everyday life. Wickham...

This museum takes its name from Mann S. Valentine II, a 19th-century businessman and patron of the arts whose fortune was based on a patent medicine called Valentine's Meat Juice, and his brother, the noted sculptor Edward Valentine, whose extraordinary image of Thomas Jefferson adorns the Jefferson Hotel. Documenting the history of Richmond, it includes the Federal-style 1812 Wickham House,...

What to Expect
You can't get a good idea of how Richmonders used to live simply by going through Grandma's attic. That's why the Valentine Museum, tucked away in downtown Richmond, puts...

The Valentine has been collecting, preserving and interpreting Richmond’s 400-year history for over a century. Located in the heart of historic downtown, the Valentine is a place for residents and tourists to discover the diverse stories that tell the broader history of this important region. A comprehensive program of exhibitions, tours, special events, research opportunities, school programs...