Walking Tours with The Valentine Museum
Date: Friday, Oct 24, 2025
Start time: 12:00 PM
End time: 4:00 PM
Location: Check registration links below
Audience: Open to all
Join us for our final Humanities Week events of 2025: two walking tours with in collaboration The Valentine!
12:00-1:30pm Murals of Jackson Ward Walking Tour (begins at 325 N. 2nd Street, Richmond VA 23219)
Join the most experienced tour guides in Richmond to explore the diversity of one of city’s most vibrant neighborhoods. Visit murals, revitalized buildings and historic homes and learn the neighborhood’s rich history. As we trace its evolution from immigrant working-class neighborhood, to the “Harlem of the South” and a modern community today, we’ll explore how art is telling the story of Jackson Ward.
2:00pm-3:30pm Women of the Gilded Age Walking Tour (begins at 211 E Franklin St, Richmond, VA 23219)
On this downtown walking tour, Richmond’s most experienced tour guides will explore stories of Richmond Women leaders and the sites, figures, and perspectives that influenced Richmond during a period of significant change.
Feel free to attend both, or either tours. These tours are free and open to all with your registration confirmation.
About the Sponsor
For 125 years, the Valentine has been collecting, preserving and interpreting Richmond Stories. They are the only museum focused on the history and culture of the region.
Located in the heart of historic downtown, the Valentine offers many unique experiences to plan your visit around that challenge and inspire while sparking joy and wonder.
The Valentine Main Campus at 10th and East Clay Street includes permanent and rotating exhibitions in our main galleries, the historic Wickham House built between 1812 and 1815, the Valentine Studio and our beautiful garden. The Valentine First Freedom Center is located in Shockoe Bottom on the same corner where Virginia’s General Assembly passed the Statue of Religious Freedom in 1786 and explores the past, present and future of religious freedom in America.
Sponsor(s): The Valentine
Event contact: Ellie Musgrave, musgraveec@vcu.edu