The List
Name | Town/City | County | Region | Type | Summary |
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Adaland Mansion | Philippi | Barbour | Mountaineer Country | Historic house | 1870 period mansion |
Adam Stephen House | Martinsburg | Berkeley | Eastern Panhandle | Historic house | Also known as General Adam Stephen House, located next to Triple Brick Museum |
African-American Heritage Family Museum | Ansted | Fayette | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | African American | |
Alexander Campbell Mansion | Bethany | Brooke | Northern Panhandle | Historic house | Operated by Bethany College, early 19th century period home of college founder Alexander Campbell |
Anna Jarvis Birthplace Museum | Webster | Taylor | Mountaineer Country | Historic house | Home of Anna Jarvis, founder of the Mother's Day holiday |
Ansted Culture and Heritage Museum | Ansted | Fayette | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Local history | information, information |
Antioch Baptist Church Museum | Ansted | Fayette | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Local history | information, information, scroll to listing |
Art Museum of West Virginia University | Morgantown | Monongalia | Mountaineer Country | Art | website, part of West Virginia University, planned museum scheduled to open in late 2013 |
The Arts Centre | Martinsburg | Berkeley | Eastern Panhandle | Art | website, includes exhibit gallery |
Aurora Area Museum | Aurora | Preston | Mountaineer Country | Local history | information |
Avampato Discovery Museum | Charleston | Kanawha | Metro Valley | Science | Part of the Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of West Virginia, science exhibits, art gallery and a planetarium |
Babcock State Park | Clifftop | Fayette | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Mill | Includes Glades Creek Grist Mill |
B & O Museum of Wheeling | Wheeling | Ohio | Northern Panhandle | Multiple | website, part of West Virginia Northern Community College, exhibits include B & O Railroad memorabilia, Hazel-Atlas Glass Company pieces; also known as West Virginia Northern Community College Alumni Association Museum |
Barbour County Historical Museum | Philippi | Barbour | Mountaineer Country | Local history | Exhibits include the mummified bodies of two female asylum inmates that were artificially preserved in 1888 |
Beauchamp-Newman Museum | Elizabeth | Wirt | Mid-Ohio Valley | Local history | Owned and operated by the Elizabeth Beauchamp Chapter Daughters of American Pioneers |
Beckley Exhibition Mine | Beckley | Raleigh | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Mining | Coal mine town, mine and museum, also Youth Museum of Southern WV |
Belle Boyd House | Martinsburg | Berkeley | Eastern Panhandle | Local history | website, operated by the Berkeley County Historical Society, family home of Civil War spy Belle Boyd |
Beverly Heritage Center | Beverly | Randolph | Potomac Highlands | Local history | website |
Bice-Ferguson Memorial Museum | Shinnston | Harrison | Mountaineer Country | Local history | information, exhibits include period room displays and antique telephones |
Birke Art Gallery | Huntington | Cabell | Metro Valley | Art | website, part of Marshall University |
Blenko Glass Visitor Center and Museum | Milton | Cabell | Metro Valley | Decorative arts | Visitor center includes museum |
Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park | Parkersburg | Wood | Mid-Ohio Valley | Local history | Includes Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History and rebuilt early 19th century Blennerhassett Mansion on the island |
Brooke County Historical Museum | Wellsburg | Brooke | Northern Panhandle | Local history | Industry, early education and pioneer life |
Buddy's Country Store & Museum | Bluewell | Mercer | Southern | History | information, historic coal camp company store |
Bulltown Historic Area | Braxton | Bulltown | Mountain Lakes | Military | |
Caboose Museum | Mullens | Wyoming | Southern | Local history | information |
Campbell-Flannagan-Murrell House Museum | Hinton | Summers | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Historic house | website, information |
Canyon Rim Visitor's Center | Fayetteville | Fayette | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Local history | website, one of three visitor centers for New River Gorge National River, area cultural and natural history |
Capon Bridge Museum | Capon Bridge | Hampshire | Potomac Highlands | Local history | website, information |
Carnegie Hall, Inc. | Lewisburg | Greenbrier | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Art | Regional cultural center with three fine art exhibit galleries |
Carnifex Ferry Battlefield State Park | Summersville | Nicholas | Mountain Lakes | Historic house | 1850s Patterson House Museum includes artifacts from the Battle of Carnifex Ferry |
Cass Scenic Railroad State Park | Cass | Pocahontas | Potomac Highlands | Railroad | Includes heritage railroad, museum, train shops, recreated 1940s logging camp, model railroads |
Cedar Creek State Park | Glenville | Gilmer | Mountain Lakes | School | Includes the Pine Run One Room School |
Central West Virginia Genealogy and History Library and Museum | Weston | Lewis | Mountain Lakes | History | |
Ceredo Museum | Ceredo | Wayne | Metro Valley | Local history | website, operated by the Ceredo Historical Society |
Chief Logan State Park | Logan | Logan | Metro Valley | Multiple | Includes Museum in the Park with changing art and history exhibits |
Children's Museum of the Ohio Valley | Wheeling | Ohio | Northern Panhandle | Children's | website |
C & O Depot Museum | St. Albans | Kanawha | Metro Valley | Railroad | website |
Coal Heritage Museum | Madison | Boone | Metro Valley | Mining | website, operated by the Bituminous Coal Heritage Foundation, heritage of area coal fields industry |
Coal Heritage Trail Interpretive Center | Bramwell | Mercer | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Mining | website, information, West Virginia’s coal history |
Contentment Historical Complex | Ansted | Fayette | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Historic house | Mid-19th century period home of Civil War Col. George Imboden, schoolhouse, museum of historic household and cultural artifacts |
Cook-Hayman Pharmacy Museum | Morgantown | Monongalia | Mountaineer Country | Medical | website, part of West Virginia University Medical Center, historic pharmacy display open by appointment |
Country Store and Museum | Glenville | Gilmer | Mountain Lakes | History | General store with antiques and historic shop items |
Craik-Patton House | Charleston | Kanawha | Metro Valley | Historic house | Mid-19th century period home operated by the Colonial Dames of America in the state of West Virginia |
Daughters of the American Revolution Toll House Museum | Barboursville | Cabell | Metro Valley | Local history | website |
Davis History House | Romney | Hampshire | Potomac Highlands | Historic house | website, information, operated by the Hampshire County Public Library, 19th century log house |
Daywood Gallery | Philippi | Barbour | Mountaineer Country | Art | website, part of Alderson-Broaddus College |
Doddridge County Museum | West Union | Doddridge | Mountaineer Country | Local history | website |
Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park | Hillsboro | Pocahontas | Potomac Highlands | Military | Includes museum with history and artifacts from the American Civil War battle fought at the site |
Eckhart House | Wheeling | Ohio | Northern Panhandle | Historic house | website, Victorian period house |
Fayette County Historical Society Museum | Hico | Fayette | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Local history | information, scroll to listing, located in the former jail |
Fenton Art Glass Museum | Williamstown | Wood | Mid-Ohio Valley | Art | website |
Fort Ashby | Fort Ashby | Mineral | Potomac Highlands | Military | Mid 18th century stockade fort erected by order of Col. George Washington during the French and Indian War |
Fort Edwards | Capon Bridge | Hampshire | Potomac Highlands | History | website, visitor center museum exhibits about the 18th century frontier fort and the French and Indian War |
Fort New Salem | Salem | Harrison | Mountaineer Country | Open air | 19th century log structures |
Fort Randolph | Point Pleasant | Mason | Metro Valley | Military | Reconstructed American Revolutionary War era fort |
Fostoria Glass Museum | Moundsville | Marshall | Northern Panhandle | Decorative arts | website, pieces produced by the Fostoria Glass Company |
Gauley Bridge Historical Museum | Gauley Bridge | Fayette | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Local history | information, scroll to listing |
Gorby's Vintage Instrument Museum | South Charleston | Kanawha | Metro Valley | Music | website, open by appointment, includes rare and exotic string, woodwind, brass and other instruments |
Grafton B & O Railroad Heritage Center | Grafton | Taylor | Mountaineer Country | Railroad | information |
Graham House | Lowell | Summers | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Historic house | 18th century house, includes Saunders One Room School House Museum |
Greatest Generation Exhibit | Rowlesburg | Preston | Mountaineer Country | Military | website, World War II memorabilia and home life |
Green Bank Science Center | Green Bank | Pocahontas | Potomac Highlands | Science | website, interactive science exhibits and tours of the Green Bank Telescope |
The Greenbrier - The Bunker | White Sulphur Springs | Greenbrier | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Military | 1950s secret emergency relocation center |
The Greenbrier - Presidents' Cottage Museum | White Sulphur Springs | Greenbrier | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | History | History of the Greenbrier and its presidential visitors |
Greenbrier Military School Memorial Museum | Lewisburg | Greenbrier | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Military | website, history of the defunct Greenbrier Military School |
Grave Creek Mound | Moundsville | Marshall | Northern Panhandle | Archaeology | Includes the Delf Norona Museum with artifacts from the prehistoric mound |
Hamilton Round Barn | Mannington | Marion | Mountaineer Country | Farm | |
Hancock County Historical Museum | New Cumberland | Hancock | Northern Panhandle | Local history | information |
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park | Harpers Ferry | Jefferson | Eastern Panhandle | Multiple | Includes many museums and historic sites |
General Thomas M. Harris School Museum | Harrisville | Ritchie | Mid Ohio Valley | Local history | Operated by the Ritchie County Historical Society |
Henry Cooper Log Cabin Museum | Parkersburg | Wood | Mid-Ohio Valley | History | Pioneer relics |
Heritage Farm Museum and Village | Huntington | Cabell | Metro Valley | Open air | website, includes Museum of Progress with home displays from 1850, 1900, to 1925, transportation museum and country store museum |
Hinton Railroad Museum | Hinton | Summers | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Railroad | information |
Historic Shepherdstown Museum | Shepherdstown | Jefferson | Eastern Panhandle | Local history | |
History House Museum | Terra Alta | Preston | Mountaineer Country | Local history | Operated by the Preston County Historical Society |
Huntington Museum of Art | Huntington | Cabell | Metro Valley | Art | |
Huntington Railroad Museum (West Virginia) | Huntington | Cabell | Metro Valley | Railroad | website, operated by the Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society |
International Mother's Day Shrine | Grafton | Taylor | Mountaineer Country | History | |
Jackson's Mill | Weston | Lewis | Mountain Lakes | Open air | Includes Jackson Family Mill Museum, Blaker Grist Mill, McWhorter Cabin, Mountain State Heritage Center and Mary Conrad Cabin |
Jefferson County Museum | Charles Town | Jefferson | Eastern Panhandle | Local history | website |
Jenkins Plantation Museum | Lesage | Cabell | Metro Valley | Historic house | Home of Confederate Brigadier General Albert Gallatin Jenkins |
John Brown Wax Museum | Harpers Ferry | Jefferson | Eastern Panhandle | Wax | website |
Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum | Wheeling | Ohio | Northern Panhandle | Toy | website, includes toys, model trains, and a scale model of downtown Wheeling |
Lighthorse Harry Lee Cabin | Mathias | Hardy | Potomac Highlands | Local history | Property administered by the State of West Virginia in Lost River State Park |
Lemuel Chenoweth House & Museum | Beverly | Randolph | Mountaineer Country | Historic house | Mid-19th century period house |
Lost River Artisans Cooperative and Museum | Lost River | Hardy | Eastern Panhandle | Local history | website, includes furniture, tools, textiles, photographs |
Lost World Caverns | Lewisburg | Greenbrier | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Natural history | Includes cave tours and museum with fossils, rocks and minerals |
Madie Carroll House | Huntington | Cabell | Metro Valley | Historic house | 19th century period house |
Mansion House Museum | Point Pleasant | Mason | Metro Valley | Historic house | Located in Tu-Endie-Wei State Park |
Marion County Historical Society Museum | Fairmont | Marion | Mountaineer Country | Local history | website |
Marshall County Historical Society Museum | Moundsville | Marshall | Northern Panhandle | Local history | website |
Marx Toy Museum | Moundsville | Marshall | Northern Panhandle | Toy | website, toys produced by Louis Marx and Company |
Matewan Depot | Matewan | Mingo | Metro Valley | Local history | website |
Mercer County War Museum | Princeton | Mercer | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Military | website, also known as Those Who Served Museum |
Mesaros Galleries | Morgantown | Monongalia | Mountaineer Country | Art | website, part of West Virginia University |
McNutt House | Princeton | Mercer | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Historic house | information, information |
Monongalia Arts Center | Morgantown | Monongalia | Mountaineer Country | Art | Art and culture center with two galleries |
Monroe County Historical Society Museum | Union | Monroe | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Local history | website |
Morgan’s Kitchen Plantation Museum | St. Albans | Kanawha | Metro Valley | Historic house | website |
Morgantown History Museum | Morgantown | Monongalia | Mountaineer Country | Local history | website |
Mothman Museum | Point Pleasant | Mason | Metro Valley | Media | website, museum about the book and movie The Mothman Prophecies |
Mountaineer Military Museum | Weston | Lewis | Mountain Lakes | Military | website |
Museum of Radio and Technology | Huntington | Cabell | Metro Valley | Technology | Historic radios and equipment |
Museum of the Berkeley Springs | Berkeley Springs | Morgan | Eastern Panhandle | Local history | Located in Berkeley Springs State Park |
Museums of Oglebay Institute | Wheeling | Ohio | Northern Panhandle | Multiple | Mansion Museum - 1900 mansion with decorative furnishings and local history exhibits, and the Glass Museum with Wheeling glass and china |
New Deal Homestead Museum | Arthurdale | Preston | Mountaineer Country | Multiple | website, local history of this Depression-era project, period displays, art |
New Era School Museum | Mineral Wells | Wood | Mid-Ohio Valley | School | Facebook site, 1884 one room school |
North House Museum | Lewisburg | Greenbrier | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Historic house | Operated by the Greenbrier Historical Society, decorative arts and local history |
Oglebay Institute’s Stifel Fine Arts Center | Wheeling | Ohio | Northern Panhandle | Art | Performing and visual arts center |
Oil & Gas Museum | Parkersburg | Wood | Mid-Ohio Valley | Industry | Oil and gas industry in West Virginia and Ohio |
Old Mill at Harman | Harman | Randolph | Potomac Highlands | Mill | Working grist mill |
Old Morgantown Glass Collectors' Guild Glass Museum | Morgantown | Monongalia | Mountaineer Country | Art | website, decorative glass pieces, currently rebuilding the museum |
Old Stone House Museum | Pennsboro | Ritchie | Mid-Ohio Valley | Local history | Operated by the Ritchie County Historical Society |
Parkersburg Art Center | Parkersburg | Wood | Mid-Ohio Valley | Art | website |
Pearl S. Buck Birthplace | Hillsboro | Pocahontas | Potomac Highlands | Biographical | 1892 period home of writer Pearl S. Buck |
Pennsboro B&O Depot | Pennsboro | Ritchie | Mid-Ohio Valley | Railroad | Operated by the Ritchie County Historical Society |
Pocahontas County Museum | Marlinton | Pocahontas | Potomac Highlands | Local history | Operated by the Pocahontas County Historical Society |
Point Pleasant River Museum | Point Pleasant | Mason | Metro Valley | Maritime | website, river life and commercial enterprise on the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, including great floods, boat construction, sternwheel steamers, river disasters, river industry, contribution to World War II, a full scale pilot house simulator, 2400 GAL native fish aquarium and a research library |
Prabhupada's Palace of Gold | New Vrindaban | Marshall | Northern Panhandle | Religious | Memorial shrine built by Hare Krishna devotees for their spiritual master, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada |
Prickett's Fort State Park | Fairmont | Marion | Mountaineer Country | Living | Reconstructed 1770s log fort with seasonal 18th century living history demonstrations and the 19th century Job Prickett House |
Princeton Railroad Museum | Princeton | Mercer | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Railroad | information |
Raleigh County Veterans Museum | Beckley | Raleigh | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Military | website |
Randolph County Museum | Beverly | Randolph | Mountaineer Country | Local history | Operated by the Randolph County Historical Society |
Rehoboth Church and Museum | Union | Monroe | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Religious | 1780s log-cabin style church and adjacent museum, heritage landmark of the United Methodist Church |
Rowlesburg B&O Depot and Museum | Rowlesburg | Preston | Mountaineer Country | Railroad | information |
Royce J. and Caroline B. Watts Museum | Morgantown | Monongalia | Mountaineer Country | Industry | website, part of West Virginia University, social, cultural, and technological history of the coal, oil, and natural gas industries of West Virginia |
St. George Academy | St. George | Tucker | Mountaineer Country | Local history | listed on the National Register of Historic Places |
Samuel Shrewsbury, Sr. House | Belle | Kanawha | Metro Valley | Historic house | Owned by the Belle Historical Restoration Society, Inc., early 19th century period house and local history museum |
Sandstone Visitor's Center | Sandstone | Summers | Southern | Local history | website, one of three visitor centers for New River Gorge National River, area cultural and natural history of the river and its watershed |
Scott's Run Museum | Osage | Mountaineer Country | Local history | website | |
Seneca Rocks Discovery Center | Seneca Rocks | Pendleton | Eastern Panhandle | Multiple | information, operated by the US Forest Service in Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area, exhibits on natural and local history, includes the mid-19th century period Sites Homestead |
South Charleston Museum | South Charleston | Kanawha | Metro Valley | Multiple | information, local history, culture and art exhibits |
Swiger Run History Center & Museum | Doddridge County | Doddridge | Mountaineer Country | Local history | website |
Taggart Hall Civil War Museum | Romney | Hampshire | Potomac Highlands | Local history | Includes Civil War memorabilia and Fenton glass |
Thurmond Depot Visitor's Center | Thurmond | Fayette | Southern | Local history | One of three visitor centers for New River Gorge National River |
Top Kick's Military Museum | Petersburg | Grant | Potomac Highlands | Military | website |
Triple Brick Museum | Martinsburg | Berkeley | Eastern Panhandle | Local history | website, located next to Adam Stephen House |
Twin Falls Resort State Park | Mullens | Wyoming | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Farm | Includes a nature center and Bowers Ridge Pioneer Farm, a restored 1830s mountain homestead working farm |
Tyler County Museum | Middlebourne | Tyler | Northern Panhandle | Local history | website, operated by the Tyler County Heritage and Historical Society |
Upshur County History Center | Buckhannon | Upshur | Mountain Lakes | Local history | website, operated by the Upshur County Historical Society |
Veterans Museum of Mid Ohio Valley | Parkersburg | Wood | Mid-Ohio Valley | Military | website |
Veterans Museum of Southern West Virginia | Hinton | Summers | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Military | information |
Victorian Wheeling Landmarks Foundation | Wheeling | Ohio | Northern Panhandle | Historic house | website, provides guided tours of the Victorian period Hess House, John List House and Hazlett-Fields House |
Watters Smith Memorial State Park | Lost Creek | Harrison | Mountaineer Country | Farm | Late 19th century homestead and farm museum |
Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center | Weirton | Hancock | Northern Panhandle | Local history | website |
West Augusta Historical Society Museum | Mannington | Marion | Mountaineer Country | Local history | |
West Virginia CCC Museum | Quiet Dell | Harrison County | Mountaineer Country | History | website, history of the Civilian Conservation Corps activities in WV |
West Virginia Governor's Mansion | Charleston | Kanawha | Metro Valley | Historic house | |
West Virginia Independence Hall | Wheeling | Ohio | Northern Panhandle | History | History of statehood of West Virginia |
West Virginia Museum of American Glass | Weston | Lewis | Mountain Lakes | Art | website, decorative glass pieces created by area glass manufacturers, includes National Marble Museum |
West Virginia Railroad Museum | Elkins | Randolph | Potomac Highlands | Railway | Heritage railroad and museum being planned |
West Virginia State Capitol | Charleston | Kanawha | Metro Valley | History | |
West Virginia State Cultural Center | Charleston | Kanawha | Metro Valley | Multiple | website, includes West Virginia's artistic, cultural and historic heritage |
West Virginia State Farm Museum | Point Pleasant | Mason | Metro Valley | Farm | website, buildings of historical value, log cabins and tools, early farmhouse and furnishing, machinery, an operational 19th century blacksmith shop, turn-of-the-20th-century doctor's and newspaper offices |
West Virginia State Museum | Charleston | Kanawha | Metro Valley | Multiple | website, West Virginia history, culture, art, paleontology, archaeology and geology |
West Virginia State Penitentiary | Moundsville | Marshall | Northern Panhandle | Prison | Former prison |
Wheeling Artisan Center | Wheeling | Ohio | Northern Panhandle | Multiple | website, includes Wymer's General Store Museum, art gallery and local history exhibits |
Whipple Company Store & Museum | Scarbro | Fayette | Southern | History | website, historic coal camp company store |
Wildwood House Museum | Beckley | Raleigh | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | History | Historic house museum |
Williamson Area Railroad Museum | Williamson | Mingo | Metro Valley | Railroad | website |
Wyoming County Historical Museum | Oceana | Wyoming | Southern | Local history | website |
Youth Museum of Southern West Virginia | Beckley | Raleigh | New River/Greenbier River Valleys | Children's | website, part of Beckley Exhibition Mine |
Z. D. Ramsdell House | Ceredo | Wayne | Metro Valley | Historic house | 19th century house |
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