Frontier Culture Museum

The Frontier Culture Museum is the biggest open-air living history museum in the Shenandoah Valley. Costumed historical interpreters show the life and customs of the indigenous Native American tribes in Virginia, the arrival of the German, English and Irish settlers, and the painful journey of the enslaved Africans to the first permanent British colony in North America. Actual homes of the period have been relocated to the museum in Staunton, Virginia to show the progression of European immigration and the settlement on the American frontier.

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German Farmhouse kitchen

The kitchen of a german farmhouse from a village in the Rheinland-Palatinate. Orginally built in the 1700s, the farmhouse and barns were disassembled and reconstructed in the Frontier Culture museum in Staunton, Virginia. The German farm shows farm life in a village in the 18th century. German-speaking Protestants from the Rhineland were recruited by the English government and proprietors to settle their North American colonies. As settlers on the colonial frontier, these German-speaking pioneers contributed to the distinctive customs and practices of the American frontier culture.

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