Movies at the Center: Mary Poppins Returns

The Suffolk Division of Tourism, in partnership with the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts, is pleased to present Mary Poppins Returns, at the Suffolk Center on Saturday, December 14, 2019, at 2pm. This dazzling family-friendly film was a huge box office h...

Virginia Symphony Orchestra: Holiday Brass Show

The bold sounds of the Virginia Symphony Brass section ring in the holidays with a blast at the Suffolk Center on Friday, December 20, 2019, at 7pm! Experience the festive sounds of the season in a concert filled with wit, virtuosity, and the glorious mus...

Mark Schultz & Daniel Heffington

Mark Schultz is a contemporary Christian music artist. He has been nominated for numerous Dove Awards, winning his first at the 2006 Dove Awards when the CD/DVD Mark Schultz Live: A Night of Stories & Songs was named Long Form Music Video of the Year....

Family Movies at the Center: Brave

American Girl Program: Featuring Isabelle Palmer

Mardi Gras: Arts in the Big Easy - Suffolk Center Annual Fundraiser

Preparations are underway for the Suffolk Center’s annual fundraiser!  This year we will host a magnificent Mardi Gras Gala which will benefit the Suffolk Center’s arts education programs for our community.  This Fat “Twos Day” will be h...

The Great Dismal Swamp

The Great Dismal Swamp is anything but dismal.

Despite its foreboding moniker, the Great Dismal Swamp is one of few remaining American wildernesses. It is the largest intact remnant of a vast habitat that once covered more than one million acres ...

Suffolk Art Gallery

Nestled among Victorian and Colonial architecture, you'll find a former library constructed in the early 1960s and repurposed as the Suffolk Art Gallery in the 1980s. The Gallery hosts a variety of exhibits and through a partnership with the Suffolk Art L...

Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts

As Suffolk's premier visual and performing arts venue for Suffolk, the Suffolk Center boasts a year-round schedule featuring musical performances, theatrical productions, ballet, art exhibits, lectures and galas. The classic Greek-Revival structure was bu...

Riddick's Folly House Museum & Gift Shop

In early 1837, a fire ravaged dozens of homes and outbuildings at the north end of Main Street in Suffolk. Out of the ashes of that fire, Mr. Mills Riddick built the home that is known today as Riddick’s Folly. Mills Riddick was a member of a large and pr...

Seaboard Station Railroad Museum

This restored Main Street station displays a two-room HO-scale model of Suffolk in 1907 that was built by the Tidewater Division of the National Model Railroad Association. The station was built in 1885 and has remained basically unchanged over the years....

Suffolk Waterways

Suffolk has over 8,000 acres of lakes and miles of river shoreline. Here are just a few highlights:

Lone Star Lake:- 12 lakes total (1172-acre park)- Freshwater fishing and pier- Four-mile horse trail- Archery range and model airplane flying field- Grills ...