Educational Programs
Pre K-6
Colonial Life & Culture
Discover what it would have been like to grow up during Colonial times. Students explore Colonial life through living history interpreters, hands-on activities, games, crafts, and artifacts-all in an 1800’s log cabin or brick kitchen. Grades K-4 will have an opportunity to try on period clothing. Other options include a demonstration of Revolutionary War musketry and a hands-on learning opportunity pelts, bones, and feathers of Eastern Woodlands animals.
Grades 3-5
Life During Revolution
Students will be introduced to life during the turbulent times of the American Revolution. Learn about the every day life of soldiers and colonists by trying on clothes; examine food, shelter, schooling, and medicine of the time.
Grades 3-6
Civil War: Homefront & Battlefront
Learn what it was like to live as a slave, civilian, or soldier during the Civil War. The Civil War education programs offered at Avoca Museum are closely aligned with Virginia SOLs. Choose to experience a Civil War musket-firing demonstration, “meet” Brig. Gen. James G. Dearing, see wool spun into material for clothing, or hear the story of a person enslaved here in Campbell
Grades K-6
River of Time: Native American Life in Virginia
Learn about the lifestyles of the Native Americans living in and around Central Virginia before the arrival of the Colonists. Students will focus on the Saponi and Monacan Tribes.
Special thanks…
Avoca Museum would like to thank our generous annual sponsors!
