Jamestown Settlement, a museum of 17th-century Virginia history and culture, explores America's first permanent English colony through film, galleries and living history in outdoor re-creations of a Powhatan Indian village, three English ships and 1610-14 colonial fort.
Expansive gallery exhibits and an introductory film, 1607: A Nation Takes Root, trace Jamestown's beginnings in England and the first century of the Virginia colony and describe the Powhatan Indian, English and west central African cultures that converged in early Virginia. Outdoors, visitors can grind corn, climb aboard one of three replica ships - Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, or try on armor to experience life in the Jamestown colony.
"Working and Racing on the Bay: The Chesapeake Log Canoe" special exhibition in partnership with The Mariners' Museum continues through September 8. Upcoming special programs include "From Africa to Virginia" theme month in February, "African-American Musical Imprint Weekend" February 14-15, and "Military Through the Ages" March 21-22. Administered by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, an agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and supported by Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Inc., for private fund development.