Historic Jamestowne
Owing to the serious health risk posed by COVID-19, which is now in the Williamsburg community, Historic Jamestowne will close at the end of business Friday, March 13 until March 31 when we will reassess the situation.
The Visitors Center, Yeardley House, Archaearium and Memorial Church will be closed, and all programs through the end of March have been cancelled. April walking tours and other programs included with an admission ticket will be assessed at the end of this month.
Jamestown Rediscovery staff will be doing our best to continue to respond to email messages and voicemail messages during the closure. No staff will be on-site to answer the main phone lines, so please leave a message and someone will return your call as soon as possible.
We will continue to follow guidance from the governor’s office, Virginia Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and will re-open when safe to do so. We appreciate your patience in this matter, and hope you will plan to visit Historic Jamestowne when we re-open.
Historic Jamestowne is the actual site of the first permanent British settlement in North America. The site is owned and managed through a private/public partnership between Preservation Virginia and the National Park Service. It is located behind Jamestown Settlement, which is operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The Jamestown Rediscovery archaeological project, spearheaded by Bill Kelso, was launched in 1994 to find the site of the earliest fortified town on the Jamestown island. Since this groundbreaking discovery, Preservation Virginia’s talented team of archaeologists have been doing great work to excavate, interpret, preserve, conserve and research the site’s findings to piece together the lives of Jamestown’s first colonists.
Address
1365 Colonial Parkway
Jamestown, VA 23081
Visitor Services
hjvcservices@preservationvirginia.org
757-856-1250
Hours
Historic Jamestowne is temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
The site is typically open daily 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day
Plan your visit
Visitors to the site can enjoy the state of the art visitor’s center, browse artifacts in the Natalie M. and Alan P. Voorhees Archaearium, participate in guided tours and witness ongoing archaeological work.
Learn more about all about Historic Jamestowne and their latest discoveries by visiting historicjamestowne.org.
Hours & Directions
Daily 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day
Donate to Historic Jamestowne
Historic Jamestowne is a partner of the American Evolution 2019 Commemoration
AMERICAN EVOLUTION™ commemorates the 400th anniversary of several key historical events that occurred in Virginia in 1619 that continue to influence America today, including the first representative legislative assembly in the New World, the arrival of the first recorded enslaved Africans to English North America and the recruitment of English women in significant numbers.
