Welcome to two living-history museums of America’s beginnings – from the founding of America’s first permanent English colony in 1607 to the Revolution and the establishment of a new nation almost two centuries later.
EXHIBIT & LECTURES (2011-2012): Learn more about the transformational impact of scientific advances, economic developments and social change in the 17th-century.
EXHIBIT & LECTURES (2010-2011): Learn more about Werowocomoco, the former principal residence of Powhatan, paramount chief of 30-some Indian tribes in Virginia’s coastal region.
The Passionality Profiles are a series of first-person video interviews with historical interpretive staff at Jamestown Settlement and the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown.
Learn about the voyage of the Sea Venture, the flagship of a fleet that came to resupply the Jamestown colony in 1609. The Sea Venture was shipwrecked on Bermuda and the survivors built two new ships from the wreckage, arriving at Jamestown in 1610.
The Jamestown Chronicles is a series of spoken monologues allowing us to meet some of the men and women who shaped this rich, tumultuous chapter in American history.
Howard Burnham portrays King James I in this dynamic five-part series. Explore James’ childhood, his journey to the throne, the translation of the King James version of the Bible, political intrigue and the establishment of a British colony at Jamestown in Virginia.
