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Events & Festivals

Find out What's Happening This Week in Newport News! Whether it's a Broadway show, a toe-tapping musical, a Civil War re-enactment, commemorating World War I and World War II, an outdoor food, and wine festival or the annual One City Marathon, there's always something to do in and around Newport News. Whether you're coming from Williamsburg, Yorktown, Hampton, Norfolk, or Virginia Beach, you'll have a blast expanding your trip itinerary with so many events and festivals nearby. Get our weekly events delivered straight to your inbox by signing up here to stay in the know!

Click here for a listing of all the great things happening this week in Newport News! 

June 21 - 27, 2018

NOTE: Events are subject to cancellation and date changes without notice. All events take place in Newport News, unless otherwise noted. 

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Any Location Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center Endview Plantation Ferguson Center for the Arts First Landing State Park and Natural Area Historic Hilton Village James A. Fields House Lee Hall Mansion Peninsula Community Theatre Peninsula Fine Arts Center Peninsula SPCA & Petting Zoo The Mariners' Museum and Park The Newsome House Museum & Cultural Center U.S. Army Transportation Museum Virginia Air and Space Center Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Museum Virginia Living Museum Virginia War Museum Brittingham-Midtown Community Center Denbigh Community Center King-Lincoln Park Newport News Park Newport News Park Discovery Center The Mariners' Museum Park Victory Arch Victory Landing Park Christopher Newport University City Center at Oyster Point Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center Ferguson Center for the Arts Peninsula Community Theatre Port Warwick The Mariners' Museum/ USS Monitor Center Virginia Living Museum

• Newport News Port of Embarkation in WWI

  April 6, 2017 - May 31, 2019
  Virginia War Museum

  Address: 9285 Warwick Boulevard, in Huntington Park, Newport News, VA 23607
  Phone: 757-247-8523
  Highway Exit: 258A or 263A from I-64
  Website: Click here to visit us online

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  Sordid and Sacred: The Beggars in Rembrandt's Etchings

  April 7 - June 24, 2018
  Peninsula Fine Arts Center

  Address: 101 Museum Drive, Newport News, VA 23606
  Phone: 757-596-8175
  Highway Exit: 258A from I-64
  Website: Click here to visit us online

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  Destination: Dinosaur!

  May 5 - September 3, 2018
  Virginia Living Museum

  Virginia Living Museum | Destination: Dinosaur!

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  Roaring, stomping animatronic dinosaurs are back!  Journey back millions of years to the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods as you visit the Museum’s changing exhibit gallery and throughout the Museum grounds and experience life-like dinosaurs around every turn.  Experience an almost 13 foot T. rex in the conservation garden accompanied by a lounging Pachyrhinosaurus photo op. Indoors uncover a Hadrosaur fossil dig, a robotic Stegosaurus, and other life-like robotic dinosaurs. Beware the water spitting Dilophosaurus and baby as you enter the back deck.  The Virginia Living Museum truly is your Dinosaur Destination May 5- September 3, 2018.

  Cost: included in museum admission  – 20 for adults and $15 for children (ages 3-12). Ages 2 and under and are free.

   

  Address: 524 J. Clyde Morris Boulevard, Newport News, VA 23601
  Phone: 757-595-1900
  Highway Exit: 258A from I-64
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• Answering America's Call

  May 19 - December 31, 2018
  The Mariners' Museum and Park

  Address: 100 Museum Drive, Newport News, VA 23606
  Phone: 757-596-2222
  Toll Free: 800-581-7245
  Highway Exit: 258A from I-64
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• Blacker the Berry: Art Exhibit

  June 1-29, 2018
  Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center

  Address: 2410 Wickham Avenue, Newport News, VA 23607
  Phone: 757-247-8950
  Highway Exit: 6 from I-664
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• Hilton Village Celebrates 100 Exhibit

  June 2-24, 2018
  Peninsula Fine Arts Center

  Address: 101 Museum Drive, Newport News, VA 23606
  Phone: 757-596-8175
  Highway Exit: 258A from I-64
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  Hayrides

  June 23, 2018; June 30, 2018; July 7, 2018; July 14, 2018; July 21, 2018; July 28, 2018; August 4, 2018; August 11, 2018; August 18, 2018; August 24, 2018; September 1, 2018
  Newport News Park

  Enjoy park interpretation and discussion on this 40 minute ride through the campground and bikeway. Complimentary tickets are available at the Campsite Office 30 minutes prior to each ride. Space is limited. All participants must be present to receive a ticket.

  Address: 13560 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, VA 23603
  Phone: 757-886-7912
  Highway Exit: 250B from I-64
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  Dino On the Loose!

  June 23, 2018; July 28, 2018; August 11, 2018, 1 - 1:15 p.m.
  Virginia Living Museum

  Join our T-Rex for a dinosaur parade, photo ops and a roaring good time on the Dinosaur Discovery Trail!

  Address: 524 J. Clyde Morris Boulevard, Newport News, VA 23601
  Phone: 757-595-1900
  Highway Exit: 258A from I-64
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• Maritime Mondays

  June 25, 2018
  The Mariners' Museum and Park

  Address: 100 Museum Drive, Newport News, VA 23606
  Phone: 757-596-2222
  Toll Free: 800-581-7245
  Highway Exit: 258A from I-64
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• Civil War Summer Camp: War in the West, 1863

  June 25-29, 2018
  Endview Plantation

  Address: 362 Yorktown Road, Newport News, VA 23603
  Phone: 757-887-1862
  Highway Exit: 247 from I-64
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