Tours meet on the second floor and occur throughout the day. Mine was very well done. The guide was thoroughly knowledgeable about the history of the building and the Commonwealth of Virginia, and provided a thorough introduction to the space and to early Virginia history. Probably the best free tour that I have had anywhere. The building itself is gorgeous and worth a visit. Unfortunately, the grand entrance with stairs is "closed to the public" and one must enter through the side door and pass through a magentometer and have bags and small items X-rayed.

My friends and I visited the Virginia state capital recently and we greatly enjoyed the free tour. Our tour guide had a great wealth of knowledge, and we certainly enjoyed asking him a lot of questions. We also enjoyed the fact that afterwords we could wander around as long as we want it inside the building. The building itself is just gorgeous.

We were very lucky to have Mr Greenough as our tour guide (I’m sure the others are just as good). As others have said it is a free tour, and a wonderful way to invest a couple of hours. It’s very interesting (even if you are not American), the guides are fonts of knowledge, the building is wonderful and we learnt so much. If you are in Richmond, this should be top of your list of places to stay.

If you visit capital cities, I would highly recommend the tour through the Virginia State Capitol. We arrived about 10 minutes late for the last tour of the day & so quickly caught up with them. We didn’t feel like we missed a beat. Very very knowledgeable docent with a polished presentation & great content to work with because it contains such an interesting history. I didn’t know the background of the origin of the architecture preferences by Thomas Jefferson who was out of the country at the time of its design and the significance of the Geo. Washington statue and the actual face mask that is part of it. You enter on the lowest level which is on the street below the grass front of the capitol bldg. there are elevators and very nice, clean restrooms when you enter and another set of restrooms just a short distance from those on your route through the bldg. Free admission! You should go & learn more!