Beginning today, the VA250 Mobile Museum will be stationed in Gloucester through Sunday, coinciding with the Daffodil Festival weekend. The mobile museum is aimed to enhance the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission’s (VA250) education experience in communities all over the commonwealth.
“We are very lucky to get it when it’s still brand new,” said Historic Resources Supervisor Robert Kelly of the Gloucester Museum of History.
The mobile museum, housed in a quad-expandable tractor trailer, debuted this January in Roanoke and then traveled to Mount Vernon, Harrisonburg and Williamsburg. At 10 o’clock this morning, the public can begin touring the mobile museum in Gloucester.
The mobile museum will be parked on Carriage Court behind the museum through the weekend. It will be open Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. and during the Daffodil Festival’s operating hours Saturday and Sunday.
“The museum will mirror those hours,” said Kelly.
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