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Charleston Museum
Charleston Museum Review
Founded in 1773, the country's oldest museum is housed in a contemporary complex. (The original Greek Revival pillars are all that remain standing at the museum's former home on Rutledge Avenue.) The museum's decorative-arts holdings and its permanent Civil War exhibit are extraordinary. There are more than 500,000 items in the collection, including silver, toys, snuffboxes, and Indian artifacts. There are also fascinating exhibits on natural history, archaeology, and ornithology. The suspended whale skeleton (the museum's mascot to many locals) is a must-see. Combination tickets that give you admission to the Joseph Manigault House and the Heyward-Washington House are a bargain at $22.
- Address: 360 Meeting St., Upper King, Charleston, SC, 29401 | Map It
- Phone: 843/722-2996
- Cost: $10
- Hours: Mon.-Sat. 9-5, Sun. 1-5
- Website: www.charlestonmuseum.org
- Location: North of Broad
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bachslunch, from US
A large, detailed historic museum concerning Charleston and the area. There's much about the area's prehistory, plantation life, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War, as well as local fauna (stuffed) and flora which are displayed in dioramas. Also has a collection of local ceramics, musical instruments, and ironwork, as well as some examples from the museum's collection when it was more a display of oddities. Well worth seeing.
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