You don’t want to miss this. The Charleston Museum, located at 360 Meeting St., announced the second part of its 250th anniversary exhibit, America’s First Museum: 250 Years of Collecting, Preserving, and Education. This exhibit will begin on Saturday, June 17 and run through January 7, 2024. Features will include iconic representative objects from the museum’s five major collections: archives, archaeology, history, historic textiles, and natural history.
Some artifacts include:
● A pew from a church on Edisto Island made by enslaved craftsmen in the 1830s.
● A recently acquired double chest, c. 1730s, constructed by cabinetmaker James Carwithen. The piece is the oldest known example of a Charleston-made double chest.
● The never-exhibited, nearly two feet in length skull of Pelagornis sandersi — the world’s largest known flying bird. This one-of-a-kind artifact was found at the Charleston International Airport in 1983.
Learn more about the anniversary exhibit here.
