Once you see them, you can’t not see them. That is the case with fingerprints preserved in locally produced bricks, a signature of the people who made them from local clay, for houses, storefronts, and fortifications. Still other skilled artisans, often enslaved, constructed the houses, storefronts, and fortifications of Charleston…
Read MoreThis is an exciting month for The Charleston Museum as January 12 marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of a “museum,” that would eventually become the wonderful institution we know today. Comprised of some of the leading learned men of the colony of South Carolina, the Charlestown Library Society…
Read MoreAmerica’s First Museum: 250 Years of Collecting, Preserving and Educating Part 1: December 17, 2022 – June 4, 2023 Part 2: June 17, 2023 – January 7, 2024 Commemorating two and a half centuries since its founding and spanning nearly 4.6 billion years of history, we are pleased to present America’s…
Read MoreSeason’s greetings to all our Museum friends! On behalf of The Charleston Museum Board of Trustees and staff, I wish you a joyous and healthy holiday season. This is an exciting time for the Museum as we look forward to our 250th anniversary in January. Can you believe America’s First…
Read MoreThe recently completed study, “Emergence & Evolution of Colonial Carolina’s Cattle Economy,” funded by the National Science Foundation, prompted some new interpretation of the Heyward-Washington House kitchen and work yard. To share the results of analysis of the animal bones recovered at the site, we prepared new interpretive signs and…
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