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Jamestown Settlement, a museum of 17th-century Virginia history, explores America’s first permanent English colony through film, galleries and living history in outdoor re-creations of a Powhatan Indian village, three English ships and colonial fort, and seasonal riverfront discovery area. Guided tours are offered daily. Gallery exhibits chronicle the nation’s 17th-century beginnings in Virginia in the context of its Powhatan, English and African cultures. On display are more than 500 artifacts from Europe and Africa, including portraits, documents, furnishings, ceremonial and decorative objects, and Virginia archaeological items. Outdoors, visitors can discover how the Powhatans obtained all they needed from the local environment, try steering with a whipstaff or tiller aboard one of the ships, and try on armor in the fort.