Central and Coastal Virginia The main lobby of the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, VA, setup for an event
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and wildlife painters and sculptors, founded in 1960. The exhibition includes 65 works, both paintings, watercolors, drawings and sculpture as well as select- ed historical works by John James Audubon, Mark Catesby and Alexander Wilson.
Meetings are never dull when they're aboard The Mariners' Museum. The museum hosts a variety of functions, ranging from seminars, lectures and receptions to board meetings, work- shops and conferences. The USS Monitor Center at museum offers a one- of-a-kind experience for groups, includ- ing a behind-the-scenes tour of the con- servation center labs, where priceless artifacts from the USS Monitor have been preserved for future generations.
The Mariners' Museum Park is the largest privately maintained park in America, open to the public for free and boasting 500 acres of naturally wooded areas and
a 167-acre lake, called Lake Maury, bor- dered by the five-mile Noland Trail, as well as views of the James River and the stun- ning Lion's Bridge. Areas of the park are available for special event rentals.
THINGS TO DO
Newport News is home to more than 30 parks in all, including Newport News Park, an 8,000-acre oasis that is nine time larger than New York city's Central Park. Activities here include fishing, boat- ing, archery, hiking, biking, camping, bird watching and year-round programs.
The city also is home to four restored his- toric house museums, three owned and managed by the City of Newport News and one privately owned. All date from before the 1920s. Endview Plantation and Lee Hall Mansion were constructed just prior to be start of the Civil War, while the Newsome House Museum and Cultural Center was the home of the first
African-American attorney to argue before the Virginia Supreme Court. The privately-owned James A. Fields House was once a primary residence and law office for him, but after his death it became the first hospital for blacks in Newport News.
The US Army Transportation Museum and the Virginia War Museum both tell the nation's military history through rich col- lections of artifacts and personal items. Two other museums in Newport News are nationally known - The Mariners' Museum and the Virginia Living Museum. The Mariners' Museum holds one of the finest collections of maritime artifacts in the country and is the only place in the world where a visitor can touch a piece of the iconic Civil War ironclad, the USS Monitor. At the Virginia Living Museum, there are more than 250 living species native to Virginia through exhibits, discov- ery centers and interactive hands-on exhibits.
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