Virginia Living Museum (VLM) Emily & Andrew

What’s at the VLM? View some of Virginia’s most interesting and endangered animals. Touch live horseshoe crabs and fossilized dinosaur tracks. It’s all at the Virginia Living Museum.

What animals will I see at the VLM? If it swims, flies, slithers, or walks and lives in Virginia you can see it at the VLM. While they don’t have every animal native to Virginia they focuses on Virginia’s natural and living resources. Join the other curious animals today at the VLM.

Do young learners have fun at the VLM? Virginia’s native animals are on display in their natural habits. Visit the interactive exhibits, you are only limited by your own imagination.

Outside

Nature walk

Want to see a bobcat or a wolf up close?

Lower level

Red wing hawk

Who wants to be a vet or animal keeper?

World Of Darkness Learning Center

Horseshoe crab

Come see what swims in VA

Can you find the flounder?

Entrance level

Travel to the different regions of VA at the VLM Come see a realistic portion of an appalachian mountain cove and cypress swamp. Visit the piedmont and mountains gallery, the coastal plain gallery, Virginia’s underground gallery, and Virginia’s world of darkness area.

Kindergarten SOL K 7 The student will investigate and understand basic needs and life processes of plants and animals. Key concepts include Animals need adequate food, water, shelter, air, and space to survive; Plants need nutrients, water, air, light, and a place to grow to survive; Plants and animals change as they grow, have varied life cycles, and eventually die; and Offspring of plants and animals are similar but not identical to their parents or to one another.

Second grade SOL 2.5 The student will investigate and understand that living things are part of a system. Key concepts include Living organisms are interdependent with their living and nonliving surroundings; An animal’s habitat includes adequate food, water, shelter or cover, and space; Habitats change over time due to many influences;and Fossils provide information about living systems that were on Earth years ago.

Third grade SOL 3.5 The student will investigate and understand relationships among organisms in aquatic and terrestrial food chains. Key concepts include Producer, consumer, decomposer Herbivore, carnivore, omnivore; and Predator and prey.

Fourth grade SOL 4.9 The student will investigate and understand important Virginia natural resources. Key concepts include watershed s and water resources; Animals and plants; Minerals, rocks, ores, and energy sources; and Forest, soil, and land.

As a class There are a few options where you can get the VLM to visit your classroom. Discovery boxes $ 95-125 Student Tour Groups $-$$ 200-300 min School outreach $$ 235 first program 205 each additional Visiting Teacher’s corner - self guided visits $ 7 per student teachers free Classes $ 9.75 per student 195 min+ School Safaris $$$ 650 min

As a family or group Games Camp-ins $$ 35/kid 25/adult Free PDFs - they go great with the visit Rotating Exhibit BIG BUGS Educational Movies $ 4 A few times a day, change seasonally Laser Evenings $ 6 Second Saturday Every month Camp-ins $$ 35/kid 25/adult Friday 6:30pm - Saturday 9am Must register Classes for kids $$12-40 Limited days Different classes on different days for different age groups

The more you visit the more you learn! Parents are encouraged to participate as class chaperones. I would ask to see if discount tickets could be purchased for students and families that return for additional visits for school and research purposes. Students that return to the museum can earn extra credit by completing a scavenger hunt.