09/29/08
Bluegrass and Barbecue Highlight State Museum’s Fall Heritage Festival
South Carolina’s traditions of mouth-watering barbecue, home-grown bluegrass musicians and backcountry arts and crafts are all celebrated at the South Carolina State Museum’s annual Fall Heritage Festival and Pickin’ Party, Saturday, Oct. 11.
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09/23/08
State Museum Curator Makes Rice Connection
A young West African girl removes the husk from dried rice in her front yard using a wooden mortar and pestle. A young man in Labe, Guinea pounds rice for a dinner crowd in an outdoor restaurant kitchen. For Elaine Nichols, the South Carolina State Museum’s curator of history, these experiences are all part of a larger story that links contemporary West African practices to South Carolina’s cultural traditions.
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09/18/08
State Museum Announces Special October Events
These special events and exhibits are scheduled at the South Carolina State Museum in October.
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09/16/08
Smithsonian Offers Free Day at the South Carolina State Museum
The South Carolina State Museum, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, will offer free general admission on Sept. 27 to visitors who present a Smithsonian Museum Day admission card.
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09/12/08
State Museum to Open Exciting Exhibit on da Vinci
An unprecedented traveling exhibition of the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci will open at the South Carolina State Museum Sept. 27.
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09/10/08
It’s All About Football at the State Museum Sept. 18
It’s all about football on Thursday, Sept. 18 from 4 – 8 p.m. at the South Carolina State Museum. A special family-oriented event will celebrate the new exhibit Mud, Sweat & Cheers: Football in the Palmetto State, 1889-2000.
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09/05/08
State Museum Announces Catering Partnership
Catered events at the South Carolina State Museum just went from “special” to “extra special” thanks to a partnership recently inked between Dupre Dukes Signature Catering and the Museum.
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08/25/08
State Museum Announces Special September Events
These special events and exhibits are scheduled at the South Carolina State Museum in September.
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08/07/08
Beach Music Blasts Museum’s "Birthday Bash”
Beach music fans and shag dancers alike will want to make a date with the South Carolina State Museum on Saturday, Aug. 16 for a free beach music concert presented by Beach Music Association International (BMAI). The concert, which celebrates the 8th annual Beach Music Day, is one of many events being offered to the community at no charge in celebration of the museum’s 20th anniversary.
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07/25/08
20-Hour Free Day to Help Celebrate Anniversary
A beach music party, vintage cars, a family bike ride, fireworks, music, re-enactors, late-night star gazing and much more will add to the South Carolina State Museum’s 20th anniversary celebration Aug. 16 - 17 as it presents a free day of family fun for 20 big hours!
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07/16/08
State Museum “Kicks Off” Exhibit on S.C. Football
“Football isn’t life or death: it’s much more important than that.” This quote from Bill Shankley, former manager of the Liverpool Football Club, could be an accurate assessment of the opinions of many South Carolinians. And it doesn’t even matter that Mr. Shankley, an Englishman, was referring to what we Americans call soccer.
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06/30/08
Museum Road Show Returns for Summer Edition
Want to know more about that oil painting you found at an estate sale or the antique silver tea service left to you by great-aunt Mildred? Curious museum guests will have their chance to find out about all kinds of artifacts, antiques and heirlooms on Saturday, July 12 as the South Carolina State Museum, in celebration of its 20th anniversary, presents a summer edition of one of its most popular events—the Museum Road Show.
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06/23/08
It’s All about Art at the State Museum June 28
Children are invited to unleash their inner Picasso on Saturday, June 28 as art is celebrated at the South Carolina State Museum. Art Day at the State Museum will feature a number of hands-on art activities for children including painting, origami (folding paper into art sculptures), collage, crayon batik (a method of dyeing fabric or paper by which the parts of the fabric not intended to be dyed are covered with removable wax), printmaking, geometric art and more.
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06/13/08
Exhibit Celebrates Museum’s First 20 Years
To continue the yearlong celebration of the South Carolina State Museum’s 20th anniversary in 2008, the Museum will open a special exhibit dedicated to objects that it has collected over the past two decades.
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06/10/08
New Exhibit at State Museum Examines Life of Woodrow Wilson
The life and career of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States and one of two presidents who lived in South Carolina, is reviewed in the “mini-exhibit” Wilson 150: The Exhibition, now at the South Carolina State Museum.
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06/09/08
Summer Camps Begin at S.C. State Museum
Want to send a rocket hurtling into space? How about mixing together some gooey slime? Or maybe fine-tune your robotic skills to build a “Bugbot.”
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06/05/08
State Museum to Hold “Girls in Science Day” June 6
The South Carolina State Museum will buzz with science activity June 6 as more than 250 middle school girls (and boys) gather for “Girls in Science Day” at the State Museum.
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05/30/08
State Museum Partners with Seniors for Mutual Benefit
The South Carolina State Museum and the state and federally-funded programs of Experience Works, Inc. recently formed a partnership to the benefit of both organizations and, most importantly, to the senior citizens hired to work at the museum
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05/21/08
State Museum Displays Artifacts from Sunken WW II Warbird
Recovered artifacts from a U.S. Army Air Corps bomber forced to ditch in Lake Murray during World War II will comprise a "mini-exhibit" about the raising of the aircraft beginning May 16 at the South Carolina State Museum.
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05/20/08
State Museum Provides Family Fun with “Hurray for Hollywood” June 7
Families can experience movie magic Saturday, June 7, at the South Carolina State Museum during its “Hurray for Hollywood Family Fun Day” breakfast, the kick-off to a full day of Hollywood and movie-themed activities.
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05/07/08
State Museum Receives Rare Mexican War Medal
At an elaborate 1848 Charleston ceremony, enlisted men from the Charleston Company of the Palmetto Regiment were promised medals as “testimonials from the City Council of Charleston of their high respect for your bravery and good conduct” during the Mexican War. One of those rare silver medals can now be seen at the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia.
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05/06/08
State Museum Displays Artifacts from Wrecked WWII Plane
Recovered artifacts from a U.S. Army Air Corps bomber forced to ditch in Lake Murray during World War II will comprise a “mini-exhibit” about the raising of the aircraft beginning May 16 at the South Carolina State Museum.
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04/18/08
State Museum to Honor Veterans and Military Personnel May 3
Vietnam War veteran and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient John F. Baker Jr. will be the principle speaker at a special ceremony entitled “A Salute to Heroes” as the South Carolina State Museum pays tribute on Saturday, May 3, to the brave and dedicated men and women who have served and who continue to serve in our country’s military branches. Baker’s presentation will be held at 11 a.m.
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04/17/08
State Museum Celebrates 20 with Juried Art Show
Contemporary South Carolina art from painting to pottery and much more will be on full display beginning April 25 as the South Carolina State Museum presents its first exclusive juried show, the State Museum 20th Anniversary Juried Art Exhibition.
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04/15/08
State Museum Art Festival
See contemporary art from more than 25 South Carolina artists come alive at the South Carolina State Museum’s fifth annual Congaree Art Festival, Saturday, April 26 from 10 a.m.- 4 p.m.
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03/18/08
Tartan Fest
A Celebration of Scottish Heritage at the South Carolina State Museum
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02/06/08
State Museum Holds African-American Genealogical Workshop
“Finding Priscilla’s Children,” a new exhibit opening Feb. 15 at the South Carolina State Museum, traces the story of one slave child’s life and the family tree she founded down through history to the present day.
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01/24/08
State Museum, AT&T continue 20-year Cover Partnership
In January 1989, the Southern Bell telephone directory featured a brand-new cultural institution on its cover: the South Carolina State Museum, opened just weeks earlier on Oct. 29, 1988. The museum was destined to become one of the state’s cultural, educational and recreational jewels.
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01/23/08
State Museum to Launch Vietnam’s TET Offensive – Via Exhibit
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11/06/02
State Museum Excavates Biggest Fossil Find in S.C.
“This is awesome,” grins Jim Knight, chief curator of natural history at the South Carolina State Museum. “This is a real thrill when it works like this.”
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