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Waynesboro Heritage Museum | 420 W. Main Street, Waynesboro, Va. 22980
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 5pm | Admission: Free! | 540-943-3943
Welcome.
At the Waynesboro Heritage Foundation and its museums, we preserve the history of Waynesboro and the immediate surrounding area.
Come visit us.
The Museum
The Waynesboro Heritage Museum portrays the history of Waynesboro through permanent and rotating exhibit galleries at two museums: the Waynesboro Heritage Museum in downtown Waynesboro and the early-19th century Plumb House. Permanent panels within each gallery reiterate the city’s history from the Beverley Grant under King George II of England in 1797, early Teasville (Teesville), and Waynesboro’s namesake, Brigadier General Anthony Wayne, Basic City, Railroads, Education, Industry, Memorable Waynesboro, Postcard Gallery, Fishburne Drug Store, and Banks of Waynesboro.
Current Exhibits
The Waynesboro Heritage Museum’s permanent gallery is complemented by a newly renovated rotating modular exhibit space that allows the museum to display several temporary rotating exhibits simultaneously, as well as a new “Out of the Archives” permanent exhibit space. The following exhibits are currently on display in the rotating gallery:
- “Foundations of Hope: Celebrating a Century of Waynesboro’s Rosenwald School and its Community”
- “Until the Cows Come Home: The Lost Town of Basic City and the Struggle that Built a Consolidated Waynesboro”
- “Out of the Archives”
Plan Your Visit
Admission
Always free!
Main Museum Hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
- Wednesday
- 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
- Thursday
- 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
- Friday
- 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
- Saturday
- 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
- Sunday
- Closed
Plumb House Hours
From April 11, 2024 until October, the Plumb House will be open every Thursday from 10am – 1pm. You can also call the museum at 540-943-3943 to make an appointment.
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- Closed
- Thursday
- 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
- Friday
- Closed
- Saturday
- Closed
- Sunday
- Closed
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The cover of the program for The Wayne Theatre, Waynesboro, VA, for the week of May 14, 1928. Inside it lists the following movies:![]()
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Monday – 'On Your Toes'![]()
Matinee 3:30 – $.25, $.20, $.15![]()
Night 7:30 & 9:00 – $.35, $.25, $.15![]()
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Tuesday – 'The Lovelorn'![]()
Matinee 3:30 – $.25, $.20, $.15![]()
Night 7:30 & 9:00 – $.35, $.25, $.15![]()
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Wednesday – 'Tumbling River'![]()
Matinee 3:30 – $.25, $.20, $.15![]()
Night 7:30 & 9:00 – $.35, $.25, $.15![]()
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Thursday & Friday – 'The Student Prince'![]()
Matinee 3:30 – $.25, $.20, $.15![]()
Night 7:30 & 9:00 – $.35, $.25, $.15![]()
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Saturday – 'Galloping Fury'![]()
Continuous Shows: 2:15, 3:30, 4:45, 6:00, 7:15, 8:30, 9:45![]()
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Don’t forget to stop by the museum to enter in our History Up-Close Contest!! Drawing is next week!We have an exciting announcement!! ![]()
Join in some local fun by checking out our newest contest – "History Up-Close!"
In our WHF collection is the byook "How to Have Health" by Lillian DeWaters, copyright 1919. ![]()
On page 33, seen in the photo, there are some things to 'remember' which are still releant today. ![]()
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Latest News & Events
Updates to the Plumb House
The historic Plumb House is open Thursday through Saturday, and current hours are 10 AM – 2 PM. We hope you make it out to see a few changes we’ve made to the Summer Kitchen and Happy’s Workshop!
Rightfully Hers
On July 29, 2020 the Waynesboro Heritage Foundation will host a new popup exhibition from the National Archives, Rightfully Hers, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
Preserve Waynesboro’s history: The Story of COVID-19
The Museum needs your help! We are looking for stories, photographs, and artifacts relating to COVID-19 and Waynesboro (surrounding areas are okay too).
New local history book
A big thank you to the Waynesboro Historical Commission for putting together the newest history booklet, “Nobility In The Valley, Archibald Stuart of Waynesboro, Virginia.”
Update: Museum response to coronavirus
As a precautionary measure, the Waynesboro Heritage Museum and the Plumb House Museum will be closed for the next two weeks, March 14-27, 2020. We will re-evaluate after the two weeks.