 It reopened as the Virginia Living Museum in 1987 under Virginia governor Gerald L. Baliles.The museum expanded throughout the 1990s, opening the Coastal Plain Aviary in 2001 and a museum building in 2004.The main building features animals living in several exhibits that depict the many environments of Virginia, including the coastal plain, a Chesapeake bay exhibit, the Piedmont, an Appalachian Mountain cove, a cypress swamp, and underground, as well as a gallery of nocturnal life.