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World Bee Day Celebration
May 23 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
World Bee Day Celebration
📅Saturday, May 23
🕞9 AM – 5 PM
📍Jamestown Settlement
The museum shops at Jamestown Settlement will celebrate World Bee Day on Saturday, May 23, with honeybee-themed activities, demonstrations, and tastings throughout the day.
Guests can meet local and regional vendors, learn about beekeeping, and sample a variety of honey and honey-inspired products. Participating vendors and presenters include:
- Bodhi Bee Farms (Williamsburg, VA)
- Edgewood Apiaries & Farm (Bremo Bluff, VA)
- Ron Navroski, feather-painting artist
- Savannah Bee Company (Savannah, GA)
- Silver Hand Meadery (Williamsburg, VA)
- St. George Brewing Company (Hampton, VA)
- Virginia Johnson, author of Virginia Honey: A Sweet History
- Wehrloom Honey Co. (Robbinsville, NC)
- Whitley’s Peanuts (Gloucester, VA)
- Williamsburg Area Beekeepers Association
The event also commemorates the 404th anniversary of the first recorded honeybees in North America, when European honeybees arrived in Virginia in 1622. The celebration highlights the importance of pollinators and recognizes the European honeybee as the Commonwealth of Virginia’s official state pollinator.
For more information, see here.
Jamestown Settlement’s main museum shop is open daily, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and museum admission is not required to visit it. Guests with museum admission also can access the honeybee pop-up shop in the Great Hall at Jamestown Settlement, open daily, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Museum Admission
- FREE for Locals*
Local Residents enjoy free admission every day at Jamestown Settlement & the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, including College of William & Mary students. *Check Qualifying Zip Codes. - FREE for children 5 and under
- Admission tickets can be purchased online or in person.
Jamestown Settlement
2110 Jamestown Rd, Williamsburg, VA 23185
(757) 253-4838
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