museum Tag

17 May

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Celebrate International Museum Day in Southwest Virginia Extraordinary and beautiful Southwest Virginia features an abundance of culture, heritage, and history. Extending across 8,600 square miles, we are also proud that it is also home to more than 55 museums. The Southwest Virginia Museums Experience seeks to connect visitors with museums to learn more about this remarkable region. The experience will take visitors on a journey throughout Southwest Virginia in both space and time and as we observe...

19 Jan

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Upon entering the Ralph Stanley Museum the first stop is the Crooked Road section.  Here guests find their first introduction to "the Dickenson County sound." This is the unique sound found in the county's hollers and hills. It is derived from its Scotch Irish settlers. This sound was developed over decades of front porch pick'n and song's handed down from generation to generation. One person up the mountain might have had a fiddle. A person down...