Harrisonburg Children's Museum 30 North Main Street, Harrisonburg, VA 22802, 540-442-8900, Children will enjoy exploring and learning more about themselves and their world while at this hands-on, interactive museum where children ages two to twelve can partake of a wide range of activities including drama, creative arts, culture, science, and technology. more... 

150 Franklin Street Gallery 150 Franklin Street, Harrisonburg, VA 22801, 540-434-3824, Multicultural art at its best.

D. Ralph Hostetter Museum of Natural History 1200 Park Road, Harrisonburg, VA 22802, Located in the Suter Science Center at EMU, 540-432-4400, Established in 1968, this museum is home to over 6,000 items including anthropology artifacts, fossils, minerals, crystals, botanical specimens, marine life, fluorescent rocks, and gems. The museum also has mounted heads of American and African game mammals, East African birds, Virginia birds, and Virginia and International insects. Group tours are available by reservation. 

Heritage Center, The 382 High Street, Harrisonburg, VA 22821, 540-879-2616, Home of the Harrisonburg Rockingham Historical Society, this center contains temporary and permanent museum exhibits, as well as an electric map that depicts General Thomas "Stonewall' Jackson's Valley Campaign. An excellent genealogy library and a gift shop and bookstore are also on site. Talks and lectures on local history, genealogy, and folk art are featured events. more... 

Valley Brethren-Mennonite Heritage Center 1921-A Heritage Center Way, Harrisonburg, VA 22803, Located off Garbers Church Road, 540-438-1275, "The mission of the CrossRoads Heritage Center is to share and celebrate the story of Jesus Christ as it has been reflected in the lives of the Mennonites and Brethren in the Shenandoah Valley." Designed as a farmstead with a central garden, the 14-acre complex will include a reception center, an 1829 Mennonite log house, a summer kitchen, vintage Rockingham County barn, the 1854 Burkholder-Myers house, a one-room school house and a meetinghouse. more... 

Virginia Quilt Museum 301 South Main Street, Harrisonburg, VA 22801, 540-433-3818, A resource center for the study of the role of quilts and quilting in the cultural life of society, this museum offers opportunities to view significant work by both early and contemporary quilt artisans and three major exhibitions are offered each year.  more... 

Edith J. Carrier Arboretum MSC 7015, Harrisonburg, VA 22807, Located at James Madison University, 540-568-3194, Step into a world of natural beauty at this outdoor living plant museum that is the only active, publicly oriented arboretum on a Virginia state-supported University campus and features an array of forests and gardens. The arboretum offers classes, lectures, tours, travel programs, and other special events. more...

M. T. Brackbill Planetarium 1200 Park Road, Harrisonburg, VA 22802, Located in the Suter Science Center at EMU, 540-432-4400, This planetarium, built in 1967, provides excellent simulation of the heavens as seen from any point on the earth at any time. The Spitz A-4 Projector presents the sun, moon, major planets, and more than 1,200 stars on the 30 foot dome while numerous slide and special-effect projectors are used to portray other dramatic celestial phenomena.