The Science Museum of Virginia (the Museum) is established as an educational institution of the Commonwealth and a public body and instrumentality for the dissemination of education. The exercise by the Museum of the powers conferred by this article is the performance of an essential governmental function.\nCode 1950, § 9-65.1, § 23-239; 1970, c. 466; 1977, c. 597; 2016, c. 588.
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