This unique Virginia research library and art museum captures the sporting life through the
centuries.
By Peter Brookes | A story with an inside setting isn’t exactly what you expect when you breathlessly flip
through the pages of your just-arrived Virginia Wildlife magazine. But bear with me for a
minute while I tell you about a unique Virginia place where the outdoors is celebrated
indoors.
Welcome to the National Sporting Library & Museum (NSLM), a cultural institution
nestled in the horse country hamlet of Middleburg in Loudoun County that celebrates
rural American sporting traditions and life.
For more than 70 years, the NSLM has honored the heritage of America’s country field
sports—angling, wingshooting, and equestrian pursuits—by collecting, preserving, and
exhibiting its own and others’ artwork and literature.
For those who love America’s traditional field sports and their special cultural history, the
NSLM is a must see; not surprisingly, Conde Nast Traveler named the NSLM one of
America’s top 51 museums—and the best in Virginia.
With its own wonderful woods and waters, Virginia is, indeed, a fitting home for the
NSLM….
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