Amusements

• 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...  map

Museums & Galleries

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

• 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.  map

• 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...  map

• 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...  map

• 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...  map

Parks, Gardens & Zoos

• 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...  map

Science & Technology

• 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.  map