Bringing Them Back to Life is a blog series from The Charleston Museum that provides updates and plans for our Natural History Gallery renovations. The Natural History Gallery renovation project is a pivotal objective of the Museum’s Strategic Plan for 2015-2018. The gallery addresses a number of goals set forth…
Read MoreBringing Them Back to Life is a blog series from The Charleston Museum that provides updates and plans for our Natural History Gallery renovations. Planning, design and fundraising for the Museum’s new Natural History Gallery are proceeding nicely, and we continue to be on track for a September 2017 opening….
Read MoreThe Museum’s Textile Collection is large and varied. A large portion of it remains hidden in storage because light is very damaging to the fibers and colors of these fragile items. But in those storage drawers and cabinets are treasures of a very personal nature – from clothing worn by…
Read MoreCharleston’s popular Wine+Food festival is fairly new, but drinking wine in Charleston is not. Archaeological sites, and the Museum’s archaeological collections, are filled with green glass bottles that once held wines. Heavy glass bases and hand-formed necks join thousands of shards of glass. The waterfront was particularly loaded with bottle…
Read MoreA current project of the Education Department is updating the interpretation of the work yard and outbuildings of the Heyward-Washington House. Though the main house was built in 1772 for Thomas Heyward, Jr., the lot itself dates to 1694. The “back of the house” has been the site of a…
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