Events

Our job readiness workshops are designed to help individuals create and define their professional persona. These workshops are interactive and informational giving people a safe space to develop and discuss how to work with different personalities, how to resolve conflict, communicate, and listen to each other. We’ll help you develop skills like communication, professionalism, teamwork, and conflict resolution. We’ll also cover career management topics such as job searches, resume writing, and interview skills training to help you land your next…

Introduce your little explorer(s) to the joys and wonders of Maymont. Each session provides fun, engaging and active learning through story time, a craft and a guided exploration. Plus, you and your toddler might even make a few new friends!

Calling all homeschoolers! Enrich your learning experience with one of Maymont’s field investigation programs in March. On Monday, March 27, explore how coal powered the Gilded Age through immersive activities to learn about work conditions and how the energy resources that we use impact more than just the environment. Designed for fourth to seventh graders, parents welcome. Advance reservations advised, meet at 2pm at the Stone Barn Active Learning Classroom. A Maymont Mansion tour is included.

Movement and play are good for children’s bodies and brains. In fact, movement can help increase memory, perception, language comprehension, attention, emotional understanding, and decision making! Join us from 2-2:30 pm in the Downtown Playhouse for Tutus and Ties Tuesdays, where we’ll dress up and move, move, move! This event is free with Museum admission.

What’s that sound in your backyard? Is it a bird? Is it a cricket? More likely, you’re hearing the nocturnal chorus of frogs and toads! Become a herpetology hero by joining the thousands of FrogWatch USA volunteers nationwide. FrogWatch USA is a frog and toad monitoring program, created by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums, that collects data on local species, helping scientists in their battle to stop amphibian population decline. This training workshop will prepare you to contribute to…

Join our CMoR Play Guides every Wednesday from 2:30 – 3:30pm in the Art Studio for structured craft time. We’ll explore new materials and creative skills while making something fun to take home! This program is ideal for ages 2-5 years. This program is free with Museum Admission.

In 1923 the first women won election to the Virginia House of Delegates. In the century since then, 109 women have served in the House, with a record number of 37 women in 2023. Virginia has often lagged the nation in the percentage of women in its governing bodies. How have women battled Virginia’s “old boys’ network” and pushed through barriers to take their place in the halls of power? Join the Library of Virginia in celebrating a century of…

Join us every other Thursday from 10:30-11:00am in the Downtown Playhouse for bilingual storytime! We’ll sing, dance, read and learn Spanish. This event is free with Museum admission.

Join us every other Thursday from 10:30-11:00am in the Downtown Playhouse for bilingual storytime! We’ll sing, dance, read and learn Spanish. This event is free with Museum admission.

Join us every other Thursday from 10:30-11:00am in the Downtown Playhouse for bilingual storytime! We’ll sing, dance, read and learn Spanish. This event is free with Museum admission.

Join us for a bilingual story time! We’ll sing, dance, read and learn Spanish. This event is free with Museum admission.

The Robins Nature Center, a 29,000-square-foot attraction, is the largest facility of its kind in central Virginia and holds close to 30,000 gallons of aquaria showcasing animals of the James River and Chesapeake Bay.

Explore the Gilded Age home of James and Sallie Dooley with a self-guided audio tour. Learn more about the people who lived and worked here, balancing technological advances of the time with the labor-intensive operations of a home this size, including the complicated story of the New South and Jim Crow.

Bring the whole family to Maymont on Saturday, April 8, for Dominion Energy Family Easter, one of Richmond’s favorite spring traditions! This year’s “eggs-travaganza” spreads out across the Carriage House Lawn and beyond, all the way to the Maymont Mansion, and is packed with activities, crafts and games, as well as live entertainment from local performance groups, plus Jonathan the Juggler and a live DJ Dance Zone. Learn about pollinators at the Planting Station, meet the Easter Bunny, or join…

Introduce your little explorer(s) to the joys and wonders of farm animals at Maymont through age-appropriate activities. Each session provides fun, engaging and active learning through story time, a craft and a guided exploration. Plus, you and your toddler might even make a few new friends!

Volunteer with us! The Library of Virginia acquires, preserves, and promotes access to unique collections of Virginia’s history and culture. With more content and research moving online, we seek to make digital documents as accessible as possible by crowdsourcing their contents. Volunteers will transcribe handwritten pages and historical newspapers by reading the text and typing it into digital form. Join us for a virtual volunteer session to learn how you can help make historical documents more searchable and usable for…