The Frontier Culture Museum is a 200-acre living history museum in Staunton, Virginia, the biggest open air museum in the Shenandoah Valley. The museum was envisioned in 1975, authorized by the Virginia General Assembly in 1978, and its foundation incorporated in 1982. The museum tells the story of the blending of European, African, and indigenous cultures on the Americanfrontier from the 17th to 18th centuries and the formation of a distinctive American folk culture, doing so through open-air exhibits and interpreters. The "Old World" exhibits of the museum include an IgboWest African farm, a 17th-century English farm, an 18th-century Irish farm, an Irish forge, and an 18th-century German farm, while the museum's growing American exhibits include a ShawneeIndian exhibit, a 1760s American frontier settlement, an 1820s American farm, an 1850s American farm, the Mount Tabor Church, and an eatly American schoolhouse.
