History Is Fun Package
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Come Visit Where History Is Fun!
Get your hands on a great spring getaway at Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center, two history museums that bring to life the stories of our nation’s beginnings. History is Fun! includes admission to both museums, plus lodging at your choice of Williamsburg area hotels or B&Bs. Both museums feature extensive gallery exhibits and films, plus fun hands-on history in outdoor re-creations of a Powhatan Indian village, three ships and colonial fort at Jamestown Settlement, and at the Yorktown Victory Center, a re-created Continental Army encampment and 1780s farm. For a limited time through October 15, take in the “Jamestown and Bermuda: Virginia Company Colonies” special exhibition. Free parking. Free Williamsburg Visitors Guide and the goWilliamsburg Discount Card delivered to your hotel with your tickets.
Special Programming for Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory Center
March 1-October 15
Jamestown and Bermuda: Virginia Company Colonies
Jamestown Settlement Special Exhibition
Bermuda, settled as the result of a 1609 shipwreck that inspired Shakespear's The Tempest, is the focus of a 400th-anniversary exhibition that also explores governmental, relgious and trade connections between Engalnd's second permanent colony in the New World and its first-Jamestown, Virginia, founded in 1607. The exhibition illuminates Bermuda's unique character: strategic location and historic stone forts; importance of sports and recreation; and land and seascapes immortalized by internationally renowned artists, leading to Bermuda's rise in the 20th century as a premier travel destination. The special exhibition is funded in part by James City County. Learn more about Jamestown and Bermuda and a companion lecture series at www.historyisfun.org.
MAY 16
Jamestown Day
A jointly sponsored event at Jamestown Settlement & Historic Jamestowne
Maritime demonstrations, military drills, archaeology, and programs on English and Powhatan Indian contact, exploration and discovery mark the 1607 founding of Jamestown, America's first permanent English colony. Seperate site admission.
Get your hands on a great spring getaway at Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center, two history museums that bring to life the stories of our nation’s beginnings. History is Fun! includes admission to both museums, plus lodging at your choice of Williamsburg area hotels or B&Bs. Both museums feature extensive gallery exhibits and films, plus fun hands-on history in outdoor re-creations of a Powhatan Indian village, three ships and colonial fort at Jamestown Settlement, and at the Yorktown Victory Center, a re-created Continental Army encampment and 1780s farm. For a limited time through October 15, take in the “Jamestown and Bermuda: Virginia Company Colonies” special exhibition. Free parking. Free Williamsburg Visitors Guide and the goWilliamsburg Discount Card delivered to your hotel with your tickets.
