Strasburg Museum - painting by Bill McClanahan		 The Strasburg Museum
A National Historic Landmark
Opened in 1970.
440 East King Street in Strasburg, Virginia.
Mailing: PO Box 333, Strasburg, VA 22657

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Closed For The Season!
will Reopen in May 2023

Celebrating over 250 Years of life in a small town in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia!

MISSION STATEMENT The Strasburg Museum is a 501(c) tax exempt property. Its mission shall be to collect, preserve, and interpret artifacts related to the history and culture of the town of Strasburg and surrounding areas. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Items on display feature authentic pieces from our local area spanning the Colonial era through the mid twentieth century.
These exhibits include:
  • A genuine red caboose that can be toured
  • A large collection of original Strasburg pottery
  • A working model railroad depicting Strasburg and the Southern Railway in the 1930s
  • An old country store display
  • Civil War articles
  • Colonial and Victorian style rooms
  • Historic local photographs
  • Native American Artifacts

    • Videos:
    Post WWII Shenandoah County Art Exhibit
    Click to View

    Strasburg Museum Banquet Presentation - "Story Behind the Miller Bible" Click to View...

    Neil Thorne's video of "The Dellinger & Miller Attacks of 1764" Click to View...

    Strasburg Museum Raw Photography and Drone Footage, June 7, 2020 Click to View

    Artifact Donations:
    Donation Information & Guidlines
    Donation Application Form

    Please Note:
    Donations given in memory of Gloria Stickley, longtime Director and President of the Strasburg Museum, will be used to award a scholarship to a Strasburg High School student. If you would like to offer a monetary gift towards this scholarship, please mail it to P. O.Box 333 Strasburg, VA 22657 or give it to a Board member. Thank you in advance.
    Visitors Note: Once the Museum opens in May, groups of five or more may arrange to visit the Museum Monday through Thursday during the months the Museum is open. Call 540-465-3175 or email strasburgmuseum@gmailcom for more details and to schedule your visit.

    A New Book: "Images of America: Strasburg",
    by Kathy Kehoe.     Local historian Kathy Kehoe has been writing folk history for more than 40 years. Her new book is part of Arcadia Publishing's "Images of America" series which celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photo-graphs, Kehoe presents distinctive stories from Strasburg's past that shaped the character of our community today.
    The book is available at the Strasburg Visitors Center and at the Straburg Museum when it opens in May.
    It is also available at such on-line stores such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

    New Exhibit from Belle Grove:
    In honor of local historian and long-time Museum Board member John Adamson (who passed in November of 2021), the Belle Grove Plantation was able to establish the John H. Adamson III Memorial Fund. The first project to benefit from the fund, Belle Grove has published an online exhibit about the Jackson family, the story a free Black man from Frederick County named Emanuel Jackson and how he purchased the freedom of his children and grandchild who were enslaved by the Hite family.
    The Museum is pleased to be a part of this first project, made possible from donations from the Museum and others. The theme of this online exhibit is the freedom of enslaved, a topic John was interested in pursuing.
    Here is a link to that exhibit..