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History, Nature Centers, Science, University

The D. Ralph Hostetter Museum of Natural History, was established in 1968. It is available free to the public on select Sundays. It houses more than 6,000 items, including anthropology artifacts; botanical specimens; fossils; marine life; minerals; crystals and gems; rocks, fluorescent rocks and minerals. It also has mounted heads of American and African game mammals; East African birds; Virginia birds, nests and eggs; Virginia and international insects.

Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College

Lynchburg, Virginia

Art, University

The art gallery at Lynchburg College is dedicated in memory of Pierre and Louise Blair Daura. The gallery houses a collection of works by Daura and many other works by American and Virginia artists totaling over 1,000 paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Changing exhibitions draw from the collections and other sources.