South Carolina State Museum

Description

The South Carolina State Museum, housed in the 1893 Columbia Mill textile building, allows visitors to explore art, cultural and natural history, and science and technology.

The museum offers exhibits, state-curriculum-aligned self-guided and guided tours for school groups (box lunches and on-site space for lunch available), outreach presentations (including presentations with a portable Starlab planetarium), programs for homeschoolers, professional development for educators, summer camps, and other recreational and educational events.

North Carolina Transportation Museum

Description

The North Carolina Transportation Museum interprets the history of transportation in the state, by train, automobile, and other vehicles. Its 57-acre site was once a steam locomotive repair facility, and the depot and roundhouse remain.

The museum offers exhibits, train and turntable rides, programs and self-guided and guided school groups, outreach presentations, a traveling trunk for rent, homeschooler days, camps, and other recreational and educational events.

Schiele Museum of Natural History [NC]

Description

The Schiele Museum of Natural History involves visitors in the exploration of natural history, as well as human prehistoric history and Native American history. The museum maintains a seasonally-open Catawba Indian village, a recreation of a Stone Age site of human habitation, and a living-history 18th-century backcountry farm.

The museum offers exhibits, living-history demonstrations, programs and guided tours for school groups, planetarium shows, professional development for educators, and other recreational and educational events.

Morris Museum of Art [GA]

Description

The Morris Museum of Art preserves and presents Southern art.

The museum offers exhibits, programs and self-guided and guided tours for school groups, programs for homeschoolers, in-class outreach presentations, a teacher resource library, professional development for educators, research library access, and workshops and other recreational and educational events.