Experience World-Class Civil War Attractions and Museums

Civil War history abounds in the Richmond - Petersburg Region. Walk the same path that Abraham Lincoln took to the White House of the Confederacy when he visited Richmond days after its capture in 1865. Experience Civil War history brought to life at Pamplin Historical Park. Learn about America’s darkest hours at the Confederate War Memorial Chapel. Explore the lives of African Americans during the war at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia, located in historic Jackson Ward. And visit The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar -- the nation's first museum to interpret the Civil War from Union, Confederate, and African American perspectives.

Other Richmond and Petersburg attractions include the Museum of the Confederacy, the Library of Virginia and the Virginia Historical Society and the Chimborazo Medical Museum. Regardless of your Civil War interests, you can choose from an excellent spectrum of Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia museums and attractions.