Local History Comes Alive

It’s Just a Way of Life Exhibit

Travel through time to meet the 10 generations of Loudoun County

residents that built this county and left their mark on the land.

Children’s Farm Exhibit

Be a "farmer for a day" in our interactive exhibit area for children and

their families. Milk a life-like cow, collect eggs from the play chickens,

and ride the Equi-ponies.

Waxpool General Store Exhibit

The Waxpool General Store has been preserved as a time capsule of

days gone by. Tour the store and play shopkeeper, shopper, or

postmaster. Collections tours and research available by appointment.

Kitchens: Family Life on the Farm (opens Dec. 5, 2009)

An interactive exhibit on farm kitchens in the decade before WWI.

Features appliances and furnishings used in kitchens before the

electrification of farm homes.

Hatching Chicks

March 24 – April 3

View incubating eggs and hatching

chicks in our incubator. Learn about

chickens and chicken care. The

Museum offers SOL-based live-

animal programs for area schools

and groups. Call to register.

Loudoun Lambs: Loudoun 4-H

Club in the Community

February 30 – April 30

Learn about the non-ownership 4-H

program in Loudoun from students

from the Temple Hall Sheep Club.

Student curators Mary-Katherine

Jones, Megan Marie Orentas, and

Amy Skowronski from Loudoun

Valley High School created the

exhibit for the Museum with

guidance from Kathy Donovan of

Checkmate Farm in Bluemont, VA. 

 Located on the grounds of Claude Moore Park           21688 Heritage Farm Lane, Sterling, Va.   20164               Phone (571) 258-3800

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Exhibits