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| Virginia Museum of Fine Arts |
| The Virginia Museum of Fine arts, or ‘’’VMFA’’’ is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia. It is one of the first museums in the American South to be operated by state funds.
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| The Museum of the Confederacy |
| The Museum of the Confederacy is located in Richmond, Virginia. The museum includes the former White House of the Confederacy and maintains a comprehensive collection of artifacts, manuscripts and photographs from the Confederate States of America and the American Civil War (1861-1865).
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| Edgar Allen Poe Museum |
| The Edgar Allan Poe Museum, Richmond, Virginia, USA, as their web site describes, holds one of the world's finest collections of Edgar Allan Poe's manuscripts, letters, first editions, memorabilia and personal belongings. The museum also provides an overview early 19th century Richmond, where Poe lived and worked. The museum features the life and career of Edgar Allan Poe by documenting his accomplishments with pictures, relics, and verse, and focusing on his many years in Richmond.
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| Hollywood Cemetery |
| Hollywood Cemetery is a large, sprawling cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, characterized by rolling hills and winding paths overlooking the James River. Opened in 1849, Hollywood Cemetery is the resting place for two U.S. Presidents as well as the only President of the Confederacy. The name "Hollywood" comes from the holly trees dotting the hills of the cemetery, and has nothing to do with the neighborhood in Los Angeles.
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| Paramount's Kings Dominion |
| Kings Dominion is a 400 acre amusement park located in Doswell in Hanover County 23 miles (37 km) north of Richmond, Virginia and 83 miles (134 km) south of Washington, DC on Interstate 95. The park is owned by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, and was part of the former Paramount Parks chain that Cedar Fair acquired from CBS Corporation on June 30, 2006. |
| Metro Richmond Zoo |
| The spacious zoo is home to more than 450 animals, including prairie dogs, kangaroos, giraffes, tortoises, tigers, rhinosaurus, snakes, peacocks, monkeys and more. Visitors can usually see everything in less than two hours. But if the kids come along or just feel like spending a nice day outdoors, one could easily spend several more hours at the zoo without becoming bored. As a whole, the zoo spans 30-plus acres.
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| Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden |
| The Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden (30 acres) is a botanical garden located at 1800 Lakeside Avenue, on the North Side of Richmond, Virginia. The property was once owned by Patrick Henry
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| Children's Museum of Richmond |
| The Children's Museum of Richmond began in 1977 as the Richmond Children’s Museum in the Navy Hill School building in downtown Richmond. In 2000, the museum moved to it's current location on Broad Street in Richmond.
Highlights include a 40-foot replica of an original Virginia limestone cave, added in 1987. The Tour de Tummy a replica of the digestive tract that children can climb through. In 2000, The Learning Garden in the museum's backyard including water play and a shaded sandbox
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| The Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia |
The mission of the Black History Museum is to enrich the lives of Alexandria's residents and visitors, to foster tolerance and understanding among all cultures and to stimulate appreciation of the diversity of the African American experience.
The institutional complex is composed of the Museum, the Watson Reading Room, and the Alexandria African American Heritage Park. The Museum, devoted to exhibiting local and regional history, incorporates the Robert H. Robinson Library as one of two exhibition galleries. The Robert H. Robinson Library was originally constructed in 1940 following a sit-in at the segregated Alexandria Library. The Reading Room, established in 1995, provides an environment for learning about the diversity of African American cultural traditions. A nine-acre green space and wetland, the Park offers a place for celebration, commemoration and quiet reflection.
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| Virginia Aviation Museum |
| Located on the north side of the site of historic Richard Evelyn Byrd Flying Field, opened in 1927, now Richmond International Airport, Richmond, Virginia, United States, the Virginia Aviation Museum boasts a collection of some thirty four airframes, from reproductions of Wright Brothers kite gliders to the still state-of-the-art SR-71 Blackbird. |
| Richmond International Raceway |
Richmond International Raceway (RIR) is a 3/4-mile (1.2 km), D-shaped, asphalt race track located just outside Richmond, Virginia in Henrico County. It hosts the NASCAR Sprint Cup and NASCAR Nationwide Series races. "America's Premier Short Track" also hosts the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series, and the United States Auto Club Silver Crown and National Sprint Car Series.
Richmond International Raceway is one of a few race tracks to host all of its events under the lights. The track has sold out the last 31 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series races. |
| Richmond Coliseum |
Richmond Coliseum is an arena in Richmond, Virginia, where the Richmond Renegades play. It is also the venue for various large concerts. The arena opened in 1971 and holds 13,500 people. A small fire occurred there in 1997, shutting it down for repairs.
The Richmond Coliseum was also the former home of the American Basketball Association (1967-1976) professional basketball franchise Virginia Squires. The Squires played there (in addition to the Roanoke Civic Center, Norfolk Scope and Hampton Coliseum; all within the state of Virginia) from 1971 to 1976.
The Sun Belt Conference men’s basketball tournament was held there in 1988. The Colonial Athletic Association men's and women's (NCAA) collegiate basketball tournament has been contested at the Richmond Coliseum since 1990. On March 1, 2006, a deal was signed to keep the tournament in Richmond until 2012. |
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