Exhibitions at Fairfax Museum and Visitor Center

Location: 10209 Main St.
Phone: 703-385-8414
Hours: Click here for hours
Free admission

Hamill Gallery

Permanent Exhibit: The Fairfax Story

Come explore The Fairfax Story  through artifacts, maps, images and fun facts telling the story of the people who have called Fairfax home. 

Gano Gallery 

2025

June 16 – August 8 -- WWII: Voices of Service

This traveling banner exhibition from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History explores major events of the war through the photographs, letters, and oral histories of everyday Americans. From the attack on Pearl Harbor through the GI Bill, it provides an overview of important events on the battlefield and the home front.

Sept. 15 to Oct. 27 — Virginia & the Vietnam War

This traveling exhibition explores the choices, perspectives, and experiences of Virginians during the Vietnam War era to help facilitate untapped understandings about this tumultuous time.

Oct. 27 to Dec. 8   -- Founding Frenemies

Founding Frenemies is a banner exhibition from the Virginia Museum of History and Culture about how the founding fathers worked with and against each other to shape America.

:Lin-Manuel Miranda’s award-winning Broadway production HAMILTON propelled our nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury into a legendary status not held since his untimely death in 1804. Miranda’s narrative—based on the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ron Chernow—tells the story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America.

From Hamilton’s decades of military and political service with George Washington to his feuds with Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Virginians were among his most influential allies and his worst enemies. Hamilton’s relationships with these Virginians helped shape the character of the United States, its founding institutions, and patterns of civil discourse still felt today.”

2026 

March 16 to April 27 — We the People

This traveling exhibition explores the diversity of the immigrant experience and the profound impact immigrants have had on Virginia’s history and identity.

April 27 to June 8 — Give Me Liberty

 This traveling exhibition explores the unique and essential Virginia people, events, and sites that helped bring liberty and democracy to a nation. Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, this exhibit will highlight the complex, diverse, and inspiring Virginia history which is, in fact, America’s story.

Sept. 14 to Oct. 24  - Indigenous Perspectives

Indigenous Perspectives seeks to place the voices and experiences of Virginia’s tribal communities at the center of an active examination of the Library of Virginia’s holdings. Ultimately, the project will create an ongoing partnership between the LVA and Virginia’s eleven federally and state–recognized tribes (1) to incorporate tribal perspectives on LVA collections and (2) to acknowledge and recognize that Virginia’s Indigenous communities have been, and remain a vital part of Virginia’s history and and culture.

The eight-panel traveling exhibition with a kiosk and touchscreen monitor is organized around the themes of sovereignty, environment, identity, community, language, and future.

Events

Exhibitions at Historic Blenheim and the Civil War Interpretive Center

Location: 3610 Blenheim Blvd.
Hours: Click here for hours
Phone: 703-591-0560
Free admission

Permanent Exhibit: Blenheim's Civil War Soldier Signatures: A Diary on Walls
Civil War Interpretive Center Gallery

First explore the timeline of major Civil War battles along with local events from 1861 – 1865.  Learn about the wartime travails of the Willcoxon family, whose home was used by Federal soldiers in 1862 and 1863. Ponder the experiences of those soldiers far from home who wrote on the house walls.  The gallery features the full-size replica of the Historic Blenheim House attic that shows the untouched signatures, unit names and hometowns, and pictographs found there.

Full-sized replica of the house attic.

Exhibitions at Ratcliffe-Allison-Pozer House

Location: 10386 Main St.
Open Saturdays from noon to 3 p.m. May through September
Free admission

Kitty Barrett Pozer: A Life to Honor

Who was Kitty Barrett Pozer? Explore the life of this fascinating woman who as a young bride drove an ambulance for wounded soldiers in World War I, later wrote articles on gardening and horticulture, and then galvanized the local historic preservation movement here in the 1970s. Save time to grab a sandwich or ice cream from an Old Town Fairfax eatery and then find a bench to enjoy the “Kitty Pozer Memorial Garden.”

To book a guided group tour, call 703-385-8415.

“Kitty Barrett Pozer: Serving Country and Community” section from Kitty Barrett Pozer : A Life to Honor” exhibit.