If you are curious about the Museum of Hounds & Hunting North America, we hope you will take time to walk the virtual halls of our Collection, learn about our educational programs, and read about our latest exhibition. The Museum of Hounds and Hunting North America has been called a "small jewel" and we want more people to visit, appreciate and share their experiences with the Museum. We want our Museum’s message to be meaningful and attractive through its educational exhibits, publications, website, conservation and research. After you tour our website, think about visiting the Museum of Hounds & Hunting North America the next time you're in the Washington, DC, area.

The Museum of Hounds & Hunting North America is located in the north wing of the Mansion at Morven Park, Leesburg, Virginia. The Museum houses an Exhibition Room, Fine Arts Room, Huntsmen’s Room, and the Long Hall and Staircase. Interesting exhibits and displays are presented in the airy rooms and the inviting nooks and crannies that only such a large house can offer. The main floor Exhibition Room or Puppy Room, as it was called by the Governor and Mrs. Davis, is a rectangular shaped room with French doors at the far end and floor-to-ceiling windows on the near side. This light-filled room has glass fronted cases; displays and exhibits in theses cases change each year. Interesting exhibits examine the historical, cultural and sociological aspects of mounted hunting with hounds. Costumes and traditional hunt attire, hunt horns and buttons, taxidermy, letters, books, trophies and gadgets are displayed in this room. Upstairs, the Fine Arts Room presents the sporting art of America and Great Britain to great advantage. The John Bowles Collection of Lionel Edwards Sporting Art is displayed in this room along with The Scurry by Jean Bowman and other art and sculpture by well-known artists. Adjoining the Fine Arts Room is the Huntsmen’s Room, the sport’s Hall of Fame, that pays homage to all huntsmen for their contributions to mounted fox hunting from its earliest days to the present. Spend some time reading the tributes to the distinguished huntsmen who have been honored by their peers with inclusion in the room. It is easy to spend an enjoyable afternoon at Morven Park.

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