Southwest Virginia Museum Historical State Park

• Fridays in July - "Lunch on the Lawn"  12:00 - 1:00 PM.  Get an early start to the weekend at this lunch time concert series.  Join us on the shady museum lawn and enjoy music from a variety of area musicians.  A different performer is presented each week.  Bring your own lunch or purchase a box lunch from the museum.  Menus vary week to week; call the museum for meal options.  The cost of the box lunch is $5.00 and includes an entree, chips, fruit, dessert, and a drink.  Lunch orders must be placed by 9:30 AM each Friday.  The concert is free and open to the public.
  
   
• July 9 - "Geocaching for Families" - 6:30 - 8:30 PM.  Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which participants use a GPS receiver to find hidden containers, or caches, which contain log books, puzzles, or trinkets.  Geocaches are currently hidden all over the world, on all seven continents.  There are over 600 caches in the Southwest Virginia area alone!  Come learn about this fun outdoor activity and try out your hunting skills with the museum's GPS units.  You may discover a new pastime!  There is a $10.00 fee for this workshop.  The program is limited to 10 families.  Registration and payment deadline is June 19.
   
• July 14 - 16  "How Our Ancestors Lived:  The 1960s and 1970s"  10:00 AM - 2:00 PM daily.
  The museum's summer history "mini-camp" is a seven-part series for children ages 6-12.  Participants are taken back in time to learn exciting things about their ancestors.  They experience the history, music fashion, customers and fads from a variety of historical time periods.
  
  This year, the program looks at the decades of the 1960s and 1970s.  Children will learn about the Vietnam War, the Space Race and the moon landing, the Civil Rights and Women's Rights movements, Woodstock and the counterculture, the birth of the environmental movement, and the cultural phenomena of the era.  Hands-on learning activities will include:  constructing a model rocket, building a miniature watershed, tie-dying a t-shirt, creating a pet rock, and learning poplar dances of the time.
  
  The fee for the three-day "mini-camp" is $15.00.  Children are required to bring a bag lunch each day, but historical snacks will be provided during some of the programs.  Children are also asked to bring their own white t-shirt for tie-dying.  Registration and payment deadline is Friday, July 3.  The program is limited to 30 participants.
   

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