Premiering June 25th at the Essex County Museum, it’s GIVE ME LIBERTY, a special traveling exhibit that explores the unique and essential Virginia people, events, and sites that helped bring liberty and democracy to a nation. Accompanying the traveling exhibit will be a specially curated display focusing on Essex County sites, archaeology, and life on the home front during the War for Independence.

Give Me Liberty: Virginia & The Forging of a Nation is the signature exhibition of the Virginia America Revolution 250 Commission and organized in partnership by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation and the Virginia Museum of History & Culture. The Essex County Museum is proud to bring this exhibit to Tappahannock.

This exhibit will run from June 25th – August 1st, so don’t miss it!

ABOUT OUR MUSEUM

Essex and its county seat, Tappahannock, lie on the beautiful Rappahannock River in Virginia’s Middle Peninsula. The Essex County Museum, founded in 1996, and the Essex County Historical Society joined forces in 2006 to celebrate the heritage of the town, county, river, and its people and is now the Essex County Museum and Historical Society (ECMHS).

The museum houses a number of exhibits that include pre-historic through modern displays of life in Essex and on the Rappahannock River. In addition to these collections, the museum has a research room with a small library as well as a Gift Shop with handcrafted jewelry, home accessories, art, books, children’s toys and games, and more!   All proceeds from the shop benefit ECMHS’s programs and operations.

Outreach is an important component of the museum’s mission and ECMHS collaborates with other museums on the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula to bring a “History on the Go” program to local elementary schools. The Essex County Museum also has a variety of other educational programs that are offered either at the museum or in another venue as well as live and virtual programs throughout the year that are offered to the community.