Here is a Google map of the Frontier Culture Museum. Click on each marker for more information.

This is a 360 view of the newest addition to the museum, the American Indian exhibit.

This is a 360 view of the German house in the 1750s. Click and drag to look around.

This is a 360 view of the West African village in the 1700s . Click and drag to look around.

Social Studies

K.3 (2015) The student will sequence events in the past and present and begin to recognize that things change over time.

K.4 (2023) The student will apply history and social science skills to recognize Virginia’s earliest communities by

a. identifying examples of historical events, stories, and legends;

b. identifying early communities, changemakers and contributions of leaders, including but not limited to Indigenous tribes, farmers, traders, early settlers, minorities, women, and children;

c. recognizing that places change over time;

1.13 (2015) The student will understand that the people of Virginia

b) make contributions to their communities; and

c) include people who have diverse ethnic origins, customs, and traditions and are united as Americans by common principles.

1.4 (2023) The student will apply history and social science skills to understand Virginia’s history by

b. describing how life in various Virginia communities has changed over time; and

3.13 (2015) The student will recognize that Americans are a people of diverse ethnic origins, customs, and traditions and are united by the basic principles of a republican form of government and respect for individual rights and freedoms.

3.1(2023) The student will apply history and social science skills to define citizenship and explain the rights and responsibilities of United States citizenship by

a. recognizing that Americans are people of diverse ethnic origins, customs and traditions that are united by the basic principles of a republican form of government and respect for

individual rights and freedoms;

VS.2 (2015) The student will demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between physical geography and the lives of the native peoples, past and present, of Virginia by

b) locating and describing Virginia’s Coastal Plain (Tidewater), Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mountains, Valley and Ridge, and Appalachian Plateau;

VS.4 (2015) The student will demonstrate an understanding of life in the Virginia colony by

b) describing how the culture of colonial Virginia reflected the origins of American Indians, European (English, Scots-Irish, German) immigrants, and Africans;

VS.1 (2023) The student will apply history and social science skills to explain the relationship between physical geography and the lives of Virginia’s peoples, past and present by

b. locating and describing the relative location and physical characteristics of Virginia's five geographic regions on a map;

VS.4 (2023) The student will apply history and social science skills to understand life in the Virginia colony by

a. explaining the importance and influence of agriculture;

b. examining how colonial Virginia reflected the culture of Indigenous Peoples, European (English, Scots-Irish, German) immigrants, and Africans;

VS.6 (2023) The student will apply history and social science skills to explain the establishment and growth of the new American nation with emphasis on the role of Virginians and events in Virginia during the 18th and 19th centuries by

d. explaining how geographical features and technological advances impacted the western movement in the first half of the 1800s;