Summer nights on the James River? Music to our ears! Wilton House Museum brings you live music, house tours, and sweet treats with beautiful river views. Guests are invited to pack a picnic, spread out on the lawn, and enjoy great local bands with beautiful waterfront views. Italian ice from Good Vices, on-site tours, and a neighborhood shuttle make the evening easy, relaxed, and fun for all ages. In case of rain, the concert moves indoors to our spacious lecture hall.

Online Tickets $5

At Event $10

Join us at Wilton House Museum for an exclusive collections pop-up event showcasing rarely seen mourning jewelry, portraiture miniatures, and intricate hair-work from our archives. Discover how 18th- and 19th- century Virginia residents translated personal loss into beautiful, wearable monuments of family love and legacy. This collections connections event style allows you to view these historical treasures up close and at your own pace, allowing you an intimate window into Early American material culture and the deeply sentimental rituals of the past. Admission is free, but an RSVP is required, so be sure to secure your spot!

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Join us in exploring Richmond, once the epicenter of the domestic slave trade in the Upper South, to understand our whole history and how that history has impacted life today. Marland Buckner, the Shockoe Institute President and CEO, will share how that struggle to expand human freedom made America exceptional, and how the Shockoe Institute is focused on providing a venue for civic engagement so that our future can be brighter than our past.

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Summer nights on the James River? Music to our ears! Wilton House Museum brings you live music, house tours, and sweet treats with beautiful river views. Guests are invited to pack a picnic, spread out on the lawn, and enjoy great local bands with beautiful waterfront views. Italian ice from Good Vices, on-site tours, and a neighborhood shuttle make the evening easy, relaxed, and fun for all ages. In case of rain, the concert moves indoors to our spacious lecture hall.

Online Tickets $5

At Event $10

Scotchtown is noted to be the largest home ever listed for sale in the Virginia Gazette, and its walls hold both secrets and scandals as well as grief, joy, and pain. Can one house hold a history of industry, murder, mystery, alongside the contradictions of liberty and bondate, freedom and inequality? Hear about illustrious Virginia families including the Chiswells, Robinsons, Henrys, Sheppards, and Taylors, and the enduring legacy that one house can tell.

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