Jamestown Settlement Museum Shops will celebrate “World Bee Day” on Saturday, May 20 with lots of honeybee-related fun, honey tastings and demonstrations. The event honors the 401st anniversary of the first recorded honeybees in North America. European honeybees most familiar to people today are not native to the continent, and they first landed in Jamestown in 1622 when the Virginia Company of London sent a ship carrying the first beehives.

Throughout the day on Saturday, museum shops – both near the main entrance and the specialty Honeybee Pop-Up Shop in the Great Hall – will feature vendor demonstrations, samplings and tastings by:
• Silver Hand Meadery of Williamsburg, Virginia 
• Savannah Bee Company of Savannah, Georgia 
• St. George Brewing Co. of Hampton, Virginia 
• Whitley’s Peanuts of Gloucester, Virginia 
• Edgewood Apiaries and Farm of Bremo Bluff, Virginia 

Admission: Museum admission is not required to visit the main museum shop near the main entrance. Guests with museum admission can access the Honeybee Pop-up Shop in the Great Hall.

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