There are five galleries on the main level and displays on the ground and second floors. Visitors enter into the Main Courtroom Gallery to see a huge color mural (33 feet by 8 feet) of the Edward Beyer painting of Lynchburg done in 1855, the same year the Court House...

The tallest indoor climbing structure in the nation, the Amazement Tower extends through all four floors of the museum and reaches into an observation deck on the roof. An endless maze of slides, ladders, tunnels and a zip-line, the Tower also incorporates an...

The Academy of Fine Arts was established through a merger between the Lynchburg Fine Arts Center and the Academy of Music in August 2003. The merger was the result of a plan to preserve the best goals and achievements of the two long-standing and respected arts...

Dr. George Cabell, one of Lynchburg’s most prominent citizens, friend of Thomas Jefferson, and physician to Patrick Henry, completed Point of Honor in 1815. The high style Federal mansion exemplifies the way this distinguished Virginia family lived in early...

The Legacy Museum of African American History was established in 1995 in Lynchburg, Virginia. Its exhibits and permanent collection focus on topics central to African American history, including the historic struggle for civil rights; business and employment; civic...

The Pest House, or House of Pestilence, was Lynchburg's first hospital. It was located at the outermost edge of town, on land next to the Public Burying Ground (or City Cemetery). Throughout the 1840s and 1850s those infected with contagious diseases like smallpox,...

This museum contains the turn-of-the-century hearse owned by W. D. Diuguid Funeral Director and Embalmer of Lynchburg, the second oldest funeral home in the United States. Also on display is a Lynchburg-made Thornhill Wagon, many hand tools used to care for the...

The Pierce Street House was built in 1903, and the surrounding area includes a large garden and a one-room retreat called Edankraal, where Spencer did much of her writing. The house is a two-story clapboard home. On the first floor, one can find a living room, dining...

Randolph College’s nationally recognized Maier Museum of Art features works by outstanding American artists of the 19th and 20th centuries and is home to several thousand paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs in the permanent collection.

Named in memory of Catalan-American artist Pierre Daura and his wife, Louise, the Daura Gallery houses LC's art collection and includes paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture by Pierre Daura and many other American and European artists.