Curator's Artifact Tours are conducted at 3:00 pm on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month beginning April 10 through October. Tours start from the Pocahontas statue.

Senior archaeological curator Bly Straube provides an intimate, behind-the-scenes tour of the artifact collection of James Fort. This 90-minute guided program begins with a brief overview of the Jamestown Rediscovery project and offers a rare glimpse of the vault where more than one million artifacts recovered during excavations are housed. Straube will highlight important finds and discuss how artifacts tell the story of Jamestown's early years. After the tour, guests will have time to explore the Nathalie P. and Alan M. Voorhees Archaearium where galleries of selected archaeological artifacts are displayed.

Tour members must purchase a tour ticket online in advance or at the Visitor Center by 2:30 p.m. on the day of the tour. Reservations and tickets are valid only on the date specified. There will be no refunds unless the tour is canceled by Preservation Virginia.

Note: Due to limited space and the fragile nature of artifacts in the laboratory, this tour is restricted to 10 people. Children under 16 years of age must be accompanied by an adult.

Tickets can be purchased here.

Spend an evening exploring Jane’s Story through the eyes of an archaeologist, a forensic anthropologist and an historian. Join Drs. William Kelso, Doug Owsley, and James Horn as they discuss the groundbreaking collaborative efforts behind the archaeological discovery of “Jane” that lead to the confirmation of the first scientifically-proven occurrence of survival cannibalism in Colonial America.

The collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution, Colonial Williamsburg and the Jamestown Rediscovery Project of Preservation Virginia was prompted by the archaeological discovery of partial human remains during excavation of an early 17th-century trash deposit at Jamestown, Va. The remains, identified as those of a 14-year-old English girl, were named “Jane” by the research team. Based on the anthropological evidence of her diet and the archaeological layer where her partial remains were found, researchers believe "Jane" arrived in Jamestown in August 1609, just months before the worst of the "starving time."

Dr. William Kelso is director of the Jamestown Rediscovery® Project and author of Jamestown: The Buried Truth. Dr. Doug Owsley is the division head for physical anthropology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Dr. James Horn is the vice president for research and historical interpretation at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and author of A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America.