The museum also features resident artist studios, an outdoor sculpture garden, and the VanGogh Educational Outreach Program.
WKMA is home to the Betsy K. White Cultural Heritage Research Archive, one of the most thorough documentations of the decorative arts legacy of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee in existence.
Since 1994, the project has documented and photographed over 200 objects made by hand in southwest Virginia and northeast Tennessee prior to 1940.
The goal of the archive is to provide a lasting record of the region's contribution to American decorative arts, including furniture, textiles, pottery, metalwork, musical instruments, art and other forms of material culture.
Several pieces are on view from the museum's outdoor sculpture competition, held biennially.