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Waynesboro Heritage Museum | 420 W. Main Street, Waynesboro, Va. 22980
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 5pm | Admission: Free! | 540-943-3943
Exhibitions
Rotating Exhibit Gallery
Here are the rotating exhibits currently on display:
“A Century of Service”
In 2025, the Waynesboro Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs will both celebrate their 100th anniversaries in the community. The new exhibit at the Waynesboro Heritage Museum, “A Century of Service,” celebrates this milestone for the clubs, and will be on display until early 2025. Each club, in conjunction with the Waynesboro Heritage Museum staff, provided written histories and club artifacts for the new exhibit, that document and highlight a century of their service to the Waynesboro community.
Come visit the museum and learn about the impact two remarkable organizations have had on Waynesboro!
The exhibit will run until January 2025, and is open — free of charge — from 10am-5pm, Tuesday through Saturday.
“Foundations of Hope”
2024 is the 100th anniversary of the founding of Waynesboro’s Rosenwald School. It has been an important part of the community in its many iterations since 1924. A new exhibit called “Foundations of Hope: Celebrating 100 years of Waynesboro’s Rosenwald School and its Community” at the Waynesboro Heritage Museum celebrates this milestone and reflects on ways the school, built by Waynesboro’s Black community, educated the city’s African American children during segregation.
In collaboration with the Waynesboro Black History Museum, the Waynesboro Public Library, Waynesboro Parks and Recreation, and the Waynesboro Chapter of the NAACP, this exhibit looks at the Rosenwald school-building program that built nearly 5,000 Black schools, and highlights Waynesboro’s school.
The exhibit will run until October 2024, and is open — free of charge — from 10am-5pm, Tuesday through Saturday.
“Out of the Archives”
Out of the Archives is a new permanent exhibit showcasing individual artifacts and records that the Waynesboro Heritage Foundation has that may otherwise not find their way into a larger exhibit.
Items will be rotated through periodically, so make sure you come back to see what new artifacts are on display.
Permanent Exhibit Gallery
As always, don’t forget to check out our permanent exhibit gallery, where you will learn about:
- Early Waynesboro and Basic City
- The role of railroads in the history of Waynesboro
- Waynesboro education
- Waynesboro industry
- “Memorable Waynesboro” and the history of local entertainment and hospitality in the Valley
- Fishburne Pharmacy
- Early banking in Waynesboro
- A special exhibit highlighting “Early Entrepreneurs of Waynesboro”