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    524 J. Clyde Morris Boulevard
    Newport News, VA 23601
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Reopening with CDC guidelines. Masks required ages 10+. Some areas restricted. View endangered red wolves. Get up close to a shark and jellyfish. See fish with no eyes and frogs that change colors. Touch live spider crabs and fossilized dinosaur tracks. It's all at the Virginia Living Museum, Newport News, where living exhibits depict Virginia's natural heritage from the mountains to the sea. Meet animals that live in a cypress swamp, mountain cove and limestone cave, plus in the Chesapeake Bay. See flying squirrels, stingrays and other creatures of the night. Kids especially enjoy the Touch Tank with its sea stars and horseshoe crabs, role-playing being an animal keeper and vet and exploring the Nature Playground. Travel the universe in the state-of-the-art digital planetarium. Outdoors, stroll the boardwalk to view coastal birds, beavers, otters, coyotes, endangered red wolves and other animals in naturalized habitats. Butterfly Garden, Virginia Garden and landscape plantings display one of the most extensive displays of native plants in Virginia. Learn how to live, build and garden green in the Conservation Garden and Green Living House. See 16 life-life dinosaurs on the outdoor Dinosaur Discovery Trail, plus explore the paleo camp, dig pits, dinosaur and ice age fossils. 

 

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  • $20 adults, $15 children ages 3-12 (ages 2 and under free)

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Last Updated: 06/08/2020

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