Absolutely wonderful? Excellent grounds. Great museums. Super personnel. Well worth the small admission fee.

A gem. Amazing, interactive exhibits. Knowledgeable staff and entertaining tour guides.

I absolutely loved this place and I can’t wait to go back. The technology that is used to education people while walking through the park is pretty high tech. I like how you are able to tour the inside of the historic buildings on the property and the trails in the back are beautiful! Make sure to wear comfortable shoes. The best part of my experience with my family was the riffle demonstration. The gentleman who lead this was dressed in period clothing. He described with props what it was like to be a soldier and all the challenges they faced. He got my boys involved by having them demonstrated with wooden rifles the 9 steps it takes to fire an actual rifle. Please go visit this place! Your missing out for sure if you haven’t!

I was genuinely overwhelmed at how wonderful this place is. I came, ostensibly, simply for a hike along the paths, but I went through the museum and was very impressed by the quality, sophistication and wealth of both knowledge and insight the museum presented. Listening to some of the first hand accounts from both Union and Confederate soldiers, one felt their humanity. Ill confess, my eyes even teared up at some of the commentary. The displays were thoughtfully arranged into categories focusing on different aspects of life in the field. For example, camp life is broken down into topics such as food, pastimes, hospital care, etc. Very thorough and brilliantly executed. And hats off to whoever designed the audio guide. I also have to comment on the very well done film at the center located outside the main museum. And then there was the staff. They were extremely helpful and friendly. I came expecting to spend a couple of hours, but I got caught up in conversation and exploration and ended up spending five hours.

This place is great! Very well put together historical grounds and information centers. We came on a weekday in the afternoon and it wasnt busy at all. There are guided portions of the entire facility, or you can get an audio guide from the main building at the entrance. We elected to use the audio tour guide device and went throughout the grounds leaning as we went. The Tudor plantation was so neat, live animals and walk through out buildings immersed us in the time period. The house was set up as the troops would have had it when it was used as a headquarters. The slave houses on the grounds were very eye opening to the living quarters for a slave at a plantation. The battlefield area was set up as a replica of how battle positions and fields of fire would have been established. At the field camp, we were given a demonstration and and information on daily life for a soldier living in the field by two reenactors. Both did an excellent job answering questions and gave a demonstration of the rifles that would have been carried in battle. Beyond the recreated encampment, actual Confederate earthworks can be seen still intact. We spent several hours here and didnt even see everything. If someone wanted to take in all the available information at the Pamplin Historical Park, I would at least allow for 4-5 hours, but you could easily spend more time than that. 5 stars for sure.

This is a gem for Fort Lee close cities and towns nearby. This place was kept up fairly nice, the exhibits were awesome. The price was fair and it was very educational. I highly recommend getting the annual pass if you live close by. This was a blast

A hidden gem. We spent 4 hours here and didnt have time to see everything - we will be back. Wonderful demonstrations, films, great museums, and the audio guide was the best I have experienced. Well-stocked store. Absolutely worth your time.

The indoor main museum was very interesting! Really enjoyed the immersive feel exhibit of facing Confederates firing at you...complete with sound and rush of air of the bullets and artillery! Very nice outdoor exhibits of Antebellum South and the Petersburg Defensive Earthworks. Hiking trails are available. Note that there is a fee to enter the museum. Discounts for AAA and military.

Wow what an amazing experience. Staff was informative and friendly. The original trenches are still clearly visible and in my opinion the most fascinating part.

Our family drove an hour and a half to see this park. We tried to visit Saturday at 1000,9/12/20. The website indicated these were operating hours. The GPS led us to a dead end road as the entrance to the park. There were multiple park entrances to the facility which were all gated closed. There were no signs to indicate why the park was closed. There is nothing posted on their website or business phone. No one is answering the business phone to even speak with. This was a real shame.

Hands down one of the greatest educational Civil War facilities . Not easy to do . The fact they have different facets of Civil war era from Indoors to outdoor is done brilliantly CW era encampments outdoors give you an opportunity to be involved. Outstanding preservation job this group has done . Long lists of events

Never heard of this place until the day I visited it. Very interesting place that presented many facts about the area and the battles that occurred there. The Staff was very friendly and knowledgeable about the subject matter. Would highly recommend a visit if you are in the area and want to learn some history.

There for Wedding/ Halloween partyAmazing fun

As always a beautiful and interesting experience!! Thank you

Great place. Very interesting. Long walk.

Great place to explore history! We stayed 5 hours and couldnt do it all! Lots if walking... what an excellent way for history and nature buffs to get their exercise;) the museum is so interesting. And for those who would rather listen than read, the players/ headphones are awesome. So to surmise, thr adult and child alike will enjoy this gem!

Easy to get around and navigate through the park, lots of interesting information put into fun and short activities.

Very informative and the tour was great! Be prepared for a lot of walking!

What a great place to bring people together!

This museum offers a great experience. Second best to Gettysburg

Absolutely wonderful and informative museum. This is a hidden gem! Very interactive and well balanced presentations of the civil war.

Great historical site and a great educational experience for the family.

Very informative... Great for family outings

A beautiful park with incredible displays discussing the lives of the common soldiers and farm life in the antebellum south. The museum has an amazing collection of civil war relics and the staff is very knowledgeable and friendly. I became a member and look forward to the events that Pamplin Park will be holding in the future!

Excellent tour and museum. Definitely worth the visit. Would recommend to all.

Wow! What a gem! The volunteers who worked with us were amazing! They have set the hook in love of American history in our 9 yo grandson. Thank you so much. I highly recommend this site for anyone who loves history.

Great experience,very nice displays,love the soldier audio connections

PHP provides impressive and thorough insights and information concerning the daily ways of life in Virginia leading up to the Civil War and the daily experiences of the soldiers who fought in it. The presentations and interactive exhibits are engaging.

Great place to visit, especially if your into civil war history

Wonderful tour of this historic battlegrounds! Tour guide was very descriptive and informative. Will definitely come back!

Went with my daughters elementary grade from Norfolk, VA. Our guide Mark was amazing. Lots to learn. I even learned something new and I went a few years ago with my sons class.

It is beautiful and well-keeped with loads of cool exhibits. The staff is very helpful and knowledgeable with a happy disposition. The man at the beginning of the exhibit was so nice I wish I got his name.

My son is extremely into past wars, I asked him what his favorite part of this place was and he said Everything. We were just passing through and stopped in. So glad we did.

Great place educational

Why isnt this museum and grounds more well known? Perhaps the best single Civil War site Ive been to. Great earthworks, nice museum, great grounds and trails.

Fantastic place, loads of information, as Im English and know very little on this subject I left here with so much info.The staff are a credit to subject they portray.

The experience of the museum was unique. They allowed you to pick a real Soldier from a list and follow his experience through the war. It made it more personal.

Beautiful facility. Staff was great. Very friendly and informative. We enjoyed our visit.

Great educational experience

I went here for a school field trip, and I highly recommend going here if you like interactive history, and awesome for Civil War buffs

Excellent Civil war Museum & Battlefield.

Went there as a part of my son’s school field trip. Staff were very good with dealing with 25+ 6 graders, keeping them interested in history behind the park. Good bad the guided tour can’t cover all the ground in allotted time as there are so many things to see there. Maybe I will return with my family in the near future to check the place out more throughly.

Excellent

Well kept beautiful place. It was really fascinating to be able to have a soldier assigned to you, that you actually got to hear in their own words from letters that they had written, what their experience was like.

Sweet place to go and enjoy history!

Very interesting and informative.

I visited Pamplin on 9/30 and was quite impressed. The museum portion is quite nice as well as the walk through the rest of the property. Staff were all friendly and the grounds were well kept. Highly recommend that you complete one of the walks around the fields and see the earth works.

Excellent historical site. The exhibits were well done and the tour guides were as enthusiastic as they were knowledgable.

Petersburg is a fantastic place to visit and it can be confusing which sites to see with all the parks and museums. I would strongly recommend Pamplin Historical Park (also the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier) as your first stop!! It has everything for all ages! The indoor exhibit walks you through life size exhibits of what it was like to be a Soldier during the Civil War (Camp life, etc). That exhibit alone has got to be one of the best I have ever seen. Then you go outside and visit the plantation with the plantation house (half of the house represents plantation life and the other half represents the Confederate occupation during the Civil War) along with the slave quarters. One of the slave quarters has a video presentation that represents the perspectives of the slave owner, his wife, and the slaves themselves; reality on the ground! Then you walk a little further and they still have part of the original battle-site, along with a theater that presents a one hour film.The price may be a little steep for a large family, but it is privately owned, has a friendly staff and is one of the best museums on the Civil War!! You definitely get your monies worth here!!!

Our family enjoyed the involvement in learning about the life of our own chosen soldier and audio tour, as well as, walking and lunching on the battle grounds!I would highly recommend a stop at this treasure in history!

Wonderful exhibit. And you dont have to read everything! Choose a soldier and follow through the exhibits with an audio tour. Outside see the original earthworks from the breakthrough of the lime. Period farm and buildings to visit as well. Really well done.

Very well preserved. Excellent experience@

Great place for Civil war history... kid friendly.

I love historical places all I can get to and learn from

Excellent experience, well thought out, audio tour is part of admission, you can spend all day if you want walking around and exploring grounds.

So much to see. Need more than one day to see everything. Staff is very informative

I went with my sons school on a field trip and was really impressed with Pamplin Park. The tour guides were great with the kids and answered any and all questions I had. The exhibits were nice and they had audio equipment that you can listen to quite detailed details about the museum exhibits and grounds. The audio clips were quite informative and included a lot of appropriate fictional/historical recreations of people that fought in the battle there. With the museum, battles field, the plantation house, slaves quarters and farm house there was a lot to see. Nice weekend destination for the family.

Great place for a couple or family to spend the day. Lots of interesting information presented in various formats. Be sure to wear the audio set when outside, lots of places to hear more interesting stories. Nice trails to walk on and experience history.

Very nice park and museum set at the time of the Civil War. You take on the identity of a soldier and learn about his life during the war. Outside there are original earthworks, a plantation house and other buildings to explore.

Nice groungs & staff. Disappointed that an event required admission in and was half of what was advertised. But I will return at a layer date.

If you love history, you will love it here.

This is a really great place to visit. Lots to see. Were going back because we couldnt see it all today.

Had a fun time and tour guide did a great job and was very nice

Good place to learn about the history of the civil war

My children and I loved our visit. The staff was very attentive and took the time to explain aspects of the war to my children. My fourth grader and second grader learned a lot, and even my four-year-old was interested. The museum was fascinating and unique. I would highly recommend this site to anyone interested in learning more about the war.

My husband and I went there with our 5-month old and had a great time. There are many old restored or replicated buildings, the trails have plenty of shade, and the staff is super nice. Trails were stroller friendly. Some were gravel, but we were still able to get the stroller over them.

Good tour. Didnt tell real reason for civil was was the south wanted to keep slaves!

GREAT historical park and awesome event venue! The staff are very very nice and accommodating. Ive visited Pamplin with a group of elementary school kids and the program the offer was really entertaining and educational. Ive sat in on a lecture at their annual Civil War Symposium and WOW what an amazing event. I also attended a awards event for a local non profit and the space Pamplin offers for events is perfect for small-medium gatherings

Awesome historical place by Plamblin family without Federal or State funding. Meticulous keep & maintained.

Really exceptional facilities. Geared towards educational needs of every age. A first rate experience worthy of praise.

Amazing a true historic adventure through the battlefields and the museum great for the family and just a trip back in time

Had a fun time learning about the events that happened at this location during the civil war. Exhibits were very respectful.

Very well done facility informative privately owned audio tour done well information is rather detailed can spend anywhere from 2 to 5 hours according to the tour guides on here. Following a soldier through the entire battle or series of battles and finding out their outcome makes it a bit more personal

Fantastic experience all around. Great guide/staff!

This was an excellent experience and learned a lot. It would have been better if there were wheelchairs in the battlefield center so my grandfather could have seen the battlefield center.

You have to go all day to get the best experience, but its not practical with kids, so count on going on multiple occasions. We did the audio guided museum tour, Tudor hall, battlefield center, and demonstration at the military encampment, and spent some time in one of the conference rooms reading about Dr. Pamplin in about 4 hours

One of the best Civil War focused museums in Virginia. Dont miss it!!!

Had a great day with family learning about Local history.

Excellent! Amazing tour guide and well pland out day for the kids.

Very well organized to inform about the battle.

Its a really cool experience going here. Not be going to slavery timeline always annoys me when we talked about it. However they have a pretty good and accurate depiction of slavery. Its a great place to take your kids to kind of teach them about the world from the past. The facility is very clean the people are very engaging in the stories that are told a very enlightening. Still bothers me that slavery happened anyway but the review

A great visit if coming to the Richmond area. I think they did a much better job than Gettysburg.

A must stop visit for any age. One of the best historic museums in the area

Great museum, you will learn a lot, even if you arent a history buff. They have some new buildings which really take you back in time. Check out the gift shop for some cool stuff!

What a great place. The Pamplins have really given back. This is a day trip worth taking even for folks in Northern VA. We did not get to do the outdoor walk due to rain but we will come back. The attendant said to just save the receipt and tell them what the deal is. You can also get an annual pass and deduct your ticket price from that amount. Plan on spending the whole day. Very educational. I would like for this place to take all of the statues that others feel the need to remove.

A lot of walking, tour guide where very informative and made the tour interesting.

Very well organized. Knowledge staff. Lots of displays. Something for everyone.

Great to visit history battlefields plus the museum was wonderful

Significant historical location for the American Civil War....

I love this place! Every time my husband and I are in the area, we make it a point to stop and spend most of the day here. The museum is a wealth of knowledge both inside and out with its interactive exhibits. The staff is friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. However, the best part of this park is getting to walk the trails to see the entrenchments and other historical sites up close where I can then close my eyes and try to imagine for just a moment what transpired all along the lines, in the woods and around the surrounding area. Its as close as one can get to actually being there. Also, the parks dedication to working with teachers and educating young people is superb!

Such an amazing place to visit and learn. The staff are always amazing, knowledgeable, friendly, and wonderful. I love it!

Simply one of the best Civil War museums there are out there! There are portions of the battlefield and original earthworks, recreated earth works, museum, living history presentations, a theater, etc. etc. I loved this place, and I think that even people who arent Civil War buffs would enjoy it. I actually learned some stuff here too, which is very cool. I love how they focus on the history, especially the history of the common soldier, rather than ideals in Washington policy or race as many other museums tend to do. It is a very interactive museum as well, with tons of displays, videos, artifacts, etc. This is a must-see for anybody interested in the Civil War!

Love this place!! The history is right at you finger tips. Great walking trails and interesting exhibits. They also host receptions and events. Check them out soon.

Very informative displays of every day Civil War life

Great place. Great for the kids. Staff really friendly.

Very educational. Learned a lot about the Civil war.

Outstanding museum - One of the best museum experiences in the world. The tour through the exhibits is enhanced by an audio experience selected at the start. I wish Smithsonian would take a page from this museums playbook and stop building their huge edifices that try to satisfy everyone but do little to inform the visitor in a meaningful way. Kudos to the Pamplin family for creating a national treasure.

Interesting historical facts

Went on this trip with my sons school. Enjoy this tour very well. Our tour guide was Ashley and she kept the kids interested in all that she showed us. My favorite part was the audio in the museum and the artifacts behind glass. To see how life was during the civil war was amazing. I definitely want to return to see the rest of the park.

A fantastic Civil War Museum. Good indoor display on the lives of the soldiers and extensive outdoor displays on southern plantations, slave life and walking tour of Confederate fortifications. Get the audio device, which will talk you through the exhibits and sites.