With Memorial Day Weekend in the books, summer in Richmond is officially here!

To celebrate the liveliest season in the River City, RVA Magazine is proud to release the RVA Summer Field Guide: Our take on a solid season to get outdoors and enjoy the city’s best, out and on the streets today.

Beat the heat and humidity, and grab a first-edition copy of your new summer go-to guide. With a classic outdoor field guide feel, the RVA Summer Field Guide brings all the sunny-day feels and boozy ideas to make the most of your days.

The guide is packed with upcoming music events, summer festivals, guides to Richmond nightlife, summer beers to look for, the best watering holes in the state, plenty of planned trips for students and families alike, and many more. Oh, yeah — and we also have quite possibly the best scavenger hunt in existence.

While it’s impossible to include everything and everywhere that make summer fun so great in this state, what comes with the RVA Summer Field Guide is a quinnessential start to exploring the city we all call home. Pick up a free copy today at any of our amazing vendors and local hot spots in town, and be sure to grab one before they run out — we guarantee you’ll be glad you did!

You can check out a PDF of the guide online below. Check our Instagram and Twitter for a special release at Hardywood tonight, or check any of the spots listed below to get a copy of your own.

View the full RVA Summer Field Fuide here!

Grab yours before they run out! The RVA Summer Field Guide can be found now at these locations:

Hardywood
Mekong
The Answer Brewpub
Ellwood Thompson’s

Check this weekend for more issues at these locations:

Colonial Shooting Academy
The Boathouse
En Su Boca
Beauvine Burger
River City Roll
Fire & Hops Pizza Co.
Rva Paddle Sports
The Poe Museum
Taylor’s Barber Shop
Quirk Hotel
Graduate Hotel
Can Can Bar
Solita
Little Saint
Kabana
Plan 9
World of Mirth
Chop Suey
Havana 59
Capital Ale House
Station 2
Union Market
Legend Brewery
Strangeways Brewing
Triple Crossing Beer
Väsen
The Veil Brewing Co.
Ardent Craft Ales
Bingo Beer Co.
Three Notch’d RVA Collab House
Canon & Draw
Basic City Beer
Isley Brewing Company
Tang Biscuit
The Hoff
Circuit Arcade Bar
Black Heath Meadery
Final Gravity Brewing Co.
Garden Grove Brewery
Tabol
Stone Brewing Richmond
Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery (downtown)
Champion Brewing RVA
Stawberry Street Market
The Hop
Black Hand Coffee
Lamplighter Coffee
Gallery 5 (First Fridays)

*Along with other local hot spots, markets and restaurants.

Science on Tap: Animals Unleashed

Animal science has been unleashed in the Museum! Join us for an adults-only night at the Museum full of kooky animal facts, childish fun and choice cocktails.

In honor of our summer touring exhibition, BODY WORLDS: ANIMAL INSIDE OUT, we’re planning a night full of wild animal science. Learn about R-rated animal mating behavior in a discussion lead by Catherine Lowry Franssen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Longwood University. When you’re done blushing, head over to meet the creatures in our Animal Lab, watch a sheep heart dissection, learn about climate impacts on the animal kingdom, create your own animal mask and take a new Instagram profile photo in front of our green screen, try your hand at making a dog leash, or check out a live astronomy show in the Dome.

Dog Wagon and Hungry Turtle will be here for sustenance. We’ll have three floors of beverages for your drinking pleasure: Väsen will be on track level offering two beers, Belle Isle Moonshine will be camped on the third level with two signature cocktails, and friendly Museum staff will be on the main level serving a variety of beer and wine options.

Just when you thought we were done, we’ll have a special showing of Snakes on a Plane at 9 pm in the Dome. Samuel L. Jackson on a 76-foot screen. Yes please.

*Guests must be 21 or older to attend, no exceptions.

Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8.50 for members. Food and drink available for purchase. Click here to get your tickets today!

Add Snakes on a Plane to your night for $5. Add BODY WORLDS: ANIMAL INSIDE OUT to your night for $7.50 for the general public and $5 for members. These tickets must be purchased in person.

When: Thursday, June 14 from 6 to 10 pm

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