There is hereby created the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia as a state agency. The purpose of the museum is to construct, operate, and maintain, in the Augusta County/Staunton/Waynesboro area of the Commonwealth, an outdoor museum in order to commemorate on an international scale the contribution which the pioneers and colonial frontiersmen and frontierswomen of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries made to the creation and development of the United States. The Museum is an educational institution with responsibility to administer certain historical and interpretive programs as may be established.

History

2000, c. 541.