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The Frontier Culture Museum is the biggest
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in the
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. The museum operates on 200 acres of land in
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, where it features eleven historic exhibits, to include traditional rural buildings from Europe, Africa, and America.


Overview

The Old World Exhibits of the Frontier Culture Museum include an Igbo
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n Farm, a 17th-century
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Farm. Here, costumed living-history interpreters at the museum, including blacksmiths, woodworkers, tailors and yarn spinners, tell the tale of the pioneers that inhabited the frontier of the first permanent British colony in North America. Many of the early immigrants to the Shenandoah Valley were farmers seeking opportunities for a better life. These people eventually became Americans and contributed to the success of the colonies and the United States. The Museum's growing American Exhibits currently comprise an Eastern Woodland Indian exhibit, a 1760s American Settlement, an 1820s American Farm, an 1850s American Farm, the Mount Tabor Church, and an Early American Schoolhouse.Exhibits: These exhibits contributed to making the museum one of the highest rated family-friendly attractions and one of the top tourist destinations in
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. In 2021, it was rated the best museum in the Shenandoah Valley by Virginia Living and by the Daily News-Record. The house later known as the Worcestershire House was a very old house in
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, England, dismantled and re-assembled at the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, in 1992. The John Smith (Smyth or Smythe) family built it in the 1630s. An example of the Tudor frame variety of
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construction, it was dismantled in 1970 and shipped.American Frontier Culture Foundation. 1998. Traditional Timberframing: The Worcestershire House- A Catalog of the Exhibit Prepared by the Research & Collections Department and Curated by Vivian Lea Stevens to Celebrate the Completion of the Worcestershire House, May 1993. Frontier Museum Heritage Books: Staunton, Virginia. Pages 4-5.


See also

* Open-air museum


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