Richmond, Virginia

Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris comes to Richmond! Hotels offering Picasso packages.
Invite visitors to the only East Coast venue for the exhibition’s seven-city international tour. The exhibition, which will be on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts from Feb.19- May 15, 2011, is co-organized by the Musée National Picasso, Paris and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Exhibition details at vmfa.museum. Hotel accommodation packages can be found atvisitrichmondva.com/Picasso. 

Portrait of Dora Maar, 1937, Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), oil on canvas, 36¼ x 25 9/16 in. (92 x 65 cm). Musée National Picasso, Paris. ©2010 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY

Haunted Tours
Haunted ghost tours through Richmond's historic neighborhoods will have visitors screaming for more. Haunts of Richmond, Richmond's original nighttime walking ghost tour company, offers four different guided ghost tours through Richmond neighborhoods and local bars.Eerie Nights’ “ghoul guiders” tour visitors through Historic Shockoe Bottom to discover the dark secrets of this neighborhood. Details athauntsofrichmond.com, eerienights.com. 

Additional Halloween Spooks in the Region
Visitors seeking extreme terror won’t want to miss Kings Dominion’s Halloween Haunt. Every weekend in October, the theme-park, with more than 60 rides, games and attractions, transforms into a haunted escape. Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardenoffers Goblins and Gourds on Oct. 24, a harvest celebration with live music by the Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra, pumpkin decorating and good green fun. Oct. 22-23 visitors can join colonists and Virginia Indians by the fireside of 1611-1622 Virginia as they recount eerie and strange tales of their homeland at Henricus Historical Park’s “Haunted Henricus”. Details athaunt.kingsdominion.com, lewisginter.org, henricus.org/Events and [Back to Press Releases Main]