Default Visit Place Woodgrain
Civil War
Museum

The Valentine Richmond History Center

You are here

Home › Visit › Heritage Sites › The Valentine Richmond History Center
SHARE THIS
 
Virginia

1015 EAST CLAY STREET
MCV CAMPUS VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
RICHMOND, VA 23219, USA

Website: https://thevalentine.org/

The Valentine Richmond History Center has been collecting, preserving and interpreting Richmond, Virginia's 400-year history for more than a century. Located in the heart of historic downtown, the History Center is a place for residents and tourists to discover the diverse stories that tell the history of this important region.

Hollywood Cemetery
Richmond, Virginia | This impressive and gorgeously landscaped cemetery contains the graves of President Jefferson Davis, Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, Gen. George E. Pickett, and other Confederate notables, as well as 18, 000 Confederate soldiers.
Virginia Historical Society
Richmond, Virginia | This museum and research library features award-winning exhibitions that are entertaining and educational for visitors of all ages.
Glendale Battlefield and Visitors Center
Richmond, Virginia | Part of the National Park Service, it was here, on June 30, 1862, on the sixth day of the Seven Days' Battles, that the disorganized attack of the Army of Northern Virginia across White Oak Swamp was repulsed by the Army of the Potomac.
The White House and Museum of the Confederacy
Richmond, Virginia | This museum is the preeminent center for the display, study, interpretation and commemoration of Confederate history and artifacts.
The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar
Richmond, Virginia | Located on the site of Tredegar Iron Works, the museum is the nation's first museum to explore the war from Union, Confederate and African American perspectives.
Richmond National Battlefield Park
Richmond, Virginia | The Richmond area was the site of several of the most consequential battles of the American Civil War.
EXPLORE THE WARS
Save Five Battlefields Rectangle
Civil War
 
Save 317 Acres at Five Civil War Battlefields
store-launch-landscape.jpg
store-launch-landscape.jpg
Store
The American Battlefield Trust Store Is Open for Business!
StaffRides_Antietam_ZachAnderson_topography.jpg
StaffRides_Antietam_ZachAnderson_topography.jpg
Collection
Military “Staff Rides”
Veterans In4 Landscape.png
Civil War
Video
Veterans of the Civil War
Siege of Yorktown
Rev War
Battles
237th Anniversary: Siege of Yorktown
Victory at Brandywine
Victory at Brandywine
Rev War
 
Saved: 105 Acres at Brandywine
50,000
ACRES SAVED

The American Battlefield Trust and our members have saved more than 50,000 acres in 24 states!

SEE THE LAND WE'VE SAVED
pre-footer-american-battlefield-trust-icon.png

American Battlefield Trust 

Find details and answers to your questions about the new umbrella brand of the Civil War Trust and Revolutionary War Trust.

FAQS ABOUT THE TRUST

pre_footer_2.jpg

Give with Confidence!

The Majority of our funds go directly to Preservation and Education.

OUR FINANCIALS