Amazement Square

Hands-On Learning and Family Fun at Amazement Square

Amazement Square is an award-winning, multi-disciplinary, hands-on museum located in historic Downtown Lynchburg, Virginia. Additionally, it is the ONLY museum in Virginia to be named a Certified Autism Center.

The museum offers four floors of hands-on, interactive exhibits designed to make learning fun. At Amazement Square, we believe that creative play is one of the most important ways children learn and grow! Guests of all ages can paint on the walls of our paint box, explore life on the farm, create a rainstorm over downtown Lynchburg, float a boat down the James River, and even rock out on stage in a band of your own! Right in the center of the historic building is the Amazement Tower, this indoor play structure extends through all four floors of the museum offering an endless maze of slides, ladders, tunnels, and a zip-line!

Named one of Central Virginia’s favorite family spots, the Museum serves more than 90,000 people through general admission, school programs, outreach activities, workshops, and other special events each year representing guests from all 50 states and more than a dozen countries.

National Medal Winner

When Amazement Square was awarded the National Medal for Museum and Library Service in 2015, Michelle Obama noted that, “The services you provide are not luxuries. Just the opposite. Every day your institutions are keeping so many folks in this country from falling through the cracks. In many communities our museums are the places that help young people dream bigger and reach higher for their futures.” (Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2015)