Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
Private Foundation Museum In Winchester Covering The Shenandoah Valley, With The Historic Glen Burnie House And Six Acres Of Formal Gardens · Winchester, Virginia
A museum in Winchester that is really three things on one site, and the mixture is what makes it worth the stop. The first is the museum proper, opened in 2005, four galleries covering the Shenandoah Valley from its settlement by Germans and Scots-Irish coming down the Great Wagon Road through to the present - decorative arts, furniture, quilts and the material culture of a valley that was fought over harder than almost anywhere in the Civil War. The second is Glen Burnie, the manor house at the back, on land patented by Winchester's founder James Wood in the 1730s and occupied by his descendants for two hundred and fifty years, furnished as the last of them left it. The third, and the part people remember, is six acres of formal garden laid out around the house in a series of rooms - a knot garden, an Asian garden with a pavilion and water, allées and a long perennial border - which in May and again in October are as good as anything of their kind in the state. Julian Wood Glass Jr left the whole thing to a foundation.
901 Amherst Street, Winchester, Virginia, 22601, United States
Generally open Tuesday to Sunday, roughly 10 AM to 4 or 5 PM, usually CLOSED MONDAYS and on major holidays - check before travelling. Gardens keep the same hours as the museum and are at their best in May and October. GLEN BURNIE HOUSE TOURS ARE SEASONAL and run on a reduced schedule. Admission is charged per person; this is a private foundation, so federal and state passes do not apply. The cafe keeps shorter hours than the galleries.
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