Transportation Museum

I didn't get a chance to write about it last weekend, but I think we visited the best museum in Roanoke. We headed to the Virginia Museum of Transportation. The kids absolutely loved it. So much so that I am considering making this our Membership Museum (sorry we can't afford to have memberships to all the museums unfortunately...maybe next year we'll add a membership to another museum and so forth).

When you walk in, you are greeted by an awesome model train exhibit. My oldest thought this was the most amazing train exhibit ever. He watched it go all over the place. There were tracks right at his level so he didn't have to keep asking to be held. Of course my favorite view of this model train was from the Model Circus Exhibit that could be found upstairs. Being able to look down over the whole model train exhibit let me see everything much better.

My youngest LOVED the automotive gallery. Where else could you see the vehicles from the Dukes of Hazzard near the car from Ghostbusters. Totally worth the ticket price just to be amongst all the movie and television automobiles. There was even a Jeff Gordon race car. By the way, that was the car my youngest went running to yelling, "Look Mommy! It's Jeff Gordon!" You know your child was born in the heart of Nascar country when he knows the names and cars of all the drivers before he is 4.

Right now the Wings Over Virginia Aviation Gallery is closed for construction. They allow you to peak in the room and there are some planes there. I think once it is up and running it will be amazing too. For the record, we had spent 45 minutes in the automobile gallery, and the models areas before we hit the rest of the museum. There is a Main Street that shows scenes of the Roanoke Valley in the early 1900s. The Rail Gallery was full of excitement too. The boys loved climbing aboard the Norfolk Southern SD-40 Locomotive Cab.

Last but not least is the Railyard. The Railyard Collection had automobiles and locomotives. I enjoyed exploring this history filled railyard.

So sorry, I forgot my camera, but I will be sure to take my camera the next time. I can't wait to get some shots of the history between these walls.

Monday through Saturday 10am-5pm
Sunday 1pm-5pm

Can't wait to go back!