West Virginia State Museum Education

West Virginia State Museum Education Inspiring, educating, and enriching lives through West Virginian history, arts, and culture.

The West Virginia State Museum is dedicated to inspiring, educating, and enriching the lives of the public by instilling a deeper understanding and sense of pride through the collection, preservation, and exhibition of diverse cultural and historic traditions, focusing on every aspect of West Virginia history, culture, art, paleontology, archaeology, and geology from all geographic regions--repres

enting the people, land, and industries. To schedule a tour group with the West Virginia State Museum, please contact our Museum Education Coordinator, Nathan Barner at (304) 558-0020 ext. 185 or e-mail our Museum Education staff at [email protected]

🌟 Happy April! 🌟This month's features the 35-star flag on display near the museum's exit. This flag was authorized as ...
04/01/2025

🌟 Happy April! 🌟

This month's features the 35-star flag on display near the museum's exit. This flag was authorized as the official United States flag on July 4, 1863—two weeks after West Virginia entered the Union. It was made some time between July 4, 1863 and July 4, 1865, when the 36th star was added in recognition of Nevada.

💭 Did You Know?
✨ You can view several historic flags on display at the West Virginia State Museum including this one plus another 35-star flag flown over the Soldiers' Cemetery during President Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address", as well as a flag that represented the First West Virginia Infantry during the Spanish-American War, several flags from the Civil War, the 48-star U.S. flag flown by labor leader Bill Blizzard at his Putnam County home in the 1950s, and more.

We're serious about preserving the threads of our state's history and that's no joke! 😉💙💛

✅ Be sure to add the West Virginia State Museum at the Culture Center, State Capitol Complex in Charleston to your List ASAP!

🎒Plan your visit at wvstatemuseumed.wv.gov/Planning-visit.html
📍 Find us at the Culture Center, State Capitol Complex,
🕒 Open Tuesday-Saturday, 9AM-5PM. Admission is free.
🚌 Schedule group with Museum Education Coordinator Nathan Barner by calling (304) 558-0220 ext. 185
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Add us to your ✅! 🚶‍♂️Walk through from an ancient coal forest through contemporary times. Don't forget to try one of...
03/30/2025

Add us to your ✅!

🚶‍♂️Walk through from an ancient coal forest through contemporary times. Don't forget to try one of our digital scavenger hunts!

🎒Plan your visit at wvstatemuseumed.wv.gov/Planning-visit.html
📍 Find us at the Culture Center, State Capitol Complex,
🕒 Open Tuesday-Saturday, 9AM-5PM. Admission is free.
🚌 Schedule group with Museum Education Coordinator Nathan Barner by calling (304) 558-0220 ext. 185
📱Stay Connected!
Follow us on Instagram:
Twitter:

🌷 Hey ! Does spring fever have you running low on ideas or ready to take learning outside of the classroom?Check out ou...
03/27/2025

🌷 Hey ! Does spring fever have you running low on ideas or ready to take learning outside of the classroom?

Check out our ✨free✨ programs and resources at wvstatemuseumed.wv.gov! From lesson plans to field trips, resources to an interactive map, and even a digital county jigsaw puzzle—find it all on our Museum Education website!

☀🌼🌱 Looking for spring day activities? Schedule a visit to the West Virginia State Museum! View over 6,000 artifacts fro...
03/26/2025

☀🌼🌱 Looking for spring day activities? Schedule a visit to the West Virginia State Museum! View over 6,000 artifacts from WV's past to present on display inside the museum. Don't forget to add on a tour of the State Capitol and the statuary at the Capitol Complex.

☎ Contact Nathan Barner, Museum Education Coordinator at (304) 558-0220 ext. 185 or [email protected] to schedule your visit!

🧇 It's ! Although food and drink aren't allowed inside of our museum to help us preserve our artifacts, we can still ce...
03/25/2025

🧇 It's ! Although food and drink aren't allowed inside of our museum to help us preserve our artifacts, we can still celebrate!

📷 Check out this universal waffle iron that once belonged to Sybil Moore of Huntington (Cabell County) in the 1930s on display in Discovery Room 18 at the West Virginia State Museum.

🧠 Did you know? Even though towns like Wheeling had electricity as early as 1882, commercial electricity was unavailable to 75% of rural West Virginia homes until the 1930s. In fact, before 1935, only 25% of West Virginia farms had electricity. That meant no refrigerators, no electric lights, and definitely no electric waffle irons! 😱

⚡ However, the New Deal brought electricity to much of rural West Virginia for the first time. Electricity radically altered domestic house work and allowed West Virginia to make an important transition into the modern era.

🎧 Get a look behind the scenes at the West Virginia State Museum! For this month's episode of Beyond the Museum Walls, w...
03/23/2025

🎧 Get a look behind the scenes at the West Virginia State Museum! For this month's episode of Beyond the Museum Walls, we feature a conversation Jesse Jenkins, Systems Specialist to explore the technical side of our museum.

Beyond the Museum Walls is a West Virginia State Museum Podcast. Available on Spotify. 🔗Listen at: https://spoti.fi/4h9rZJd

✍ Don't forget! The West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History is now accepting submissions for ✨TWO upcoming...
03/22/2025

✍ Don't forget! The West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History is now accepting submissions for ✨TWO upcoming exhibits!✨ Get the prospectuses and entry forms from the link in our bio or at the end of this post!👇

Learn more about our Featured Exhibits at: https://wvculture.org/discover/featured-exhibits/

🎨 Inspired Prospectus & Entry Forms: https://bit.ly/InspiredWV
🧵 2025 Quilts and Wall Hangings Prospectus & Entry Forms: https://bit.ly/4if7Jpo

📌Featured Exhibits On Display at the Culture Center That You Don't Wanna Miss!✨1: Welcome to the Culture Center 2: Inspi...
03/19/2025

📌Featured Exhibits On Display at the Culture Center That You Don't Wanna Miss!✨

1: Welcome to the Culture Center
2: Inspired: West Virginia Wildlife
3: 2025 Youth Congressional Art Competition
4: The Artwork of Susan Poffenbarger

🔗 Learn more at: https://wvculture.org/discover/featured-exhibits/

Address

1900 Kanawha Boulevard East
Charleston, WV
25305

Opening Hours

Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+13045580220

Website

https://linktr.ee/WVStateMuseumEducation

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