Elemental: A Fundraising Gala hosted by the FANS of The Charleston Museum


Elemental: A Fundraising Gala hosted by the FANS of The Charleston Museum

On April 29, the FANS (Friends and Needed Supporters) of The Charleston Museum will host Elemental, a gala benefiting the Museum’s Natural History Gallery renovation project. The evening will be full of food, drinks, dancing, and more. At 6:00 guests are invited to enjoy cocktails in the Joseph Manigault House garden, rarely open to the public for such occasions, and at 7:00 pm, the party will move across the street to the Museum for live music and dancing in the courtyard, a full bar, food stations inspired by the four elements (earth, air, fire, and water), as well as both a silent and a live auction. Items from the Museum’s extraordinary Natural History Collection will be on display and Natural History Curator Matt Gibson will be on hand to answer questions about these fascinating pieces.

This event is a must! Not only will it be an evening of elegance and entertainment, but proceeds will  help the Museum achieve its goal to renovate this important gallery, which promises to be a quintessential learning experience for our community when completed.

 Tickets are all-inclusive and provide access to both the cocktail hour in the Joseph Manigault House garden as well as the gala at the Museum. Cocktail attire inspired by the elements is encouraged. $115 for Members, $125 for Non-members.

 

More about the Museum’s Natural History Gallery Renovations:

A key objective of the Museum’s recently adopted Strategic Plan, the new gallery will offer an unparalleled learning experience focusing on the Lowcountry’s prehistoric and contemporary biodiversity, the significant geologic changes that have taken place here over time, and humans’ impact on the local environment and their curiosity about the world. It will be the Museum’s most sizeable exhibition space and promises to be an excellent resource for area schools.

The Museum’s collections contain the largest existing assemblage of South Carolina natural history fossils and specimens known, and many parts of the collection have national and even international importance. Among the collection highlights to be featured in the new gallery are a cast of Pelagornis sandersi, the now extinct, largest ever known bird capable of flight, 23-33 million-year-old Oligocene-era whale fossils, the skeleton of an 18′ crocodile that inhabited the Lowcountry nearly 30 million years ago, fossilized botany specimens that are at least 280 million years old, mounts of a variety of Lowcountry birds, including bald eagles, hawks, herons, egrets, owls and extinct species such as the Carolina parakeet, ivory-billed woodpecker and passenger pigeon, and mounts of large mammals no longer extant in the Lowcountry such as cougar and elk. The artwork of Charlestonian Maria Martin Bachman, who assisted John Audubon with botanical and insect renderings, will also be on display.

Thank you to all of our generous sponsors!

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Date/Time

04/29/2016, 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Location

The Charleston Museum
360 Meeting Street
Charleston, South Carolina 29403

Ticketing

Bookings are closed for this event.


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