02/14/12
Sidewalk Stargazing Returns March 3
It’ll be a grand night for looking at Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and Mars! The South Carolina State Museum science staff and the Midlands Astronomy Club will resume the popular “Planets for the People” sidewalk telescope viewing event at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 3 in front of the Hunter-Gatherer Brewery & Ale House, 900 Main Street, south of the State House complex.
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02/02/12
State Museum Opens S.C. Abstract Art Exhibit Feb. 24
The new art exhibit opening soon at the South Carolina State Museum will examine a topic not always quickly associated with the traditions of the Palmetto State – abstract art.
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01/31/12
State Museum to Present Family Fitness Day Feb. 4
It’s January—time to break out the workout clothes, weights and water bottles and get serious about losing those extra pounds gained over the holidays. Whether exercise is your passion or a dirty word to you, you’ll find out about some great, fun ways to take care of your body on Saturday, Feb. 4 at the South Carolina State Museum.
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01/24/12
State Museum Announces Special February Events
These special events and exhibits are scheduled at the South Carolina State Museum in February.
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01/24/12
State Museum Launches BODY WORLDS Vital College Week Competition
The South Carolina State Museum is proud to announce a special half-off admission contest to the blockbuster exhibit BODY WORLDS Vital to South Carolina college students.
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01/10/12
Winter Museum Road Show Roars Back Jan. 21
It may be the most popular event the South Carolina State Museum does. It’s the Museum Road Show, and it’s back just in time to banish the winter doldrums. If you have a treasured antique, cool collectible or something you picked up at a yard sale and want to find out what it is, what it’s worth or what it does (or did), bring it down to the State Museum on Saturday, Jan. 21.
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01/09/12
BODY WORLDS Vital Drawing Crowds to State Museum
BODY WORLDS Vital, the South Carolina State Museum’s blockbuster exhibit featuring real donated human bodies, is attracting a record number of visitors seeking to find out what makes them tick and how they can better take care of themselves.
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12/29/11
BODY WORLDS Vital Field Trip Contest Voting Period Now Open
The voting period to select which lucky South Carolina school classroom will receive a free trip to the South Carolina State Museum exhibit of BODY WORLDS Vital is now open.
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12/20/11
State Museum Announces Special January Events
These special events and exhibits are scheduled at the South Carolina State Museum in January.
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12/20/11
Improve Your Photography at State Museum Workshop
You’ve just gotten that new digital camera you wanted as a holiday gift, but you want to learn to go beyond merely snapping pictures to making better photographs—especially those that involve action and sports.
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12/14/11
Holiday Tea to be Served at State Museum
Holiday revelers are cordially invited to a festive holiday tea by nationally renowned silver expert Dawn E. Corley, better known as “The Charleston Silver Lady,” Sunday, Dec. 18 at 2 p.m.Holiday revelers are cordially invited to a festive holiday tea by nationally renowned silver expert Dawn E. Corley, better known as “The Charleston Silver Lady,” Sunday, Dec. 18 at 2 p.m. at the South Carolina State Museum.t the South Carolina State Museum.
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12/12/11
Winter Fest Returns to State Museum
It’s the “most wonderful time of the year” as the South Carolina State Museum’s holiday tradition, Winter Fest, kicks off Monday, Dec. 19. This celebration of the winter season runs for two weeks until Sunday, Jan. 1 (with time out for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day) and will feature many highlights and crowd pleasers.
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12/01/11
Holiday Giving Made More Special with Museum Ideas
Picking the right gift for that special someone is often the most stressful part of the holidays. That’s when the South Carolina State Museum’s store, the Cotton Mill Exchange, comes to the rescue.
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11/20/11
State Museum Announces Special December Events
These special events and exhibits are scheduled at the South Carolina State Museum in December.
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11/15/11
Museum Excited by Opening of BODY WORLDS Vital
After months of preparations, the South Carolina State Museum has opened the biggest exhibition it has ever brought to the Palmetto State.
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11/15/11
Anatomist Invented Method For Body Preservation,Exhibition for Education
Anatomist Gunther von Hagens and physician Angelina Whalley, the trailblazing scientist and creative designer behind Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS – the anatomical exhibitions seen by 33 million visitors worldwide – have created the biggest blockbuster exhibit yet to come to the Palmetto State.
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11/09/11
Exhibit Shows Talent of Visually Impaired Jug Makers
Face jugs are a traditional South Carolina art form that, because of their variety, must be seen to be appreciated.
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10/28/11
State Museum Announces Special November Events
The following special events are scheduled for November.
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10/25/11
Legal Moonshine & Muscadine Wine at S.C. State Museum Tasting Nov. 5
“Everything old is new again.” So goes a famous saying, and it could certainly apply to a couple of the latest darlings of the adult beverage world: legal “moonshine” and muscadine wines. A new spin on some old favorites will be offered Saturday, Nov. 5 from 6 – 9 p.m. as the South Carolina State Museum explores the Palmetto State’s heritage of moonshining and homemade wine-making in an exciting new ticketed event for adults called “Moonshine and Muscadines.”
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10/24/11
Fall Heritage Festival at the SC State Museum
With mouth-watering barbecue, some of the best of South Carolina’s musical talent, a plethora of folk artists demonstrating their skills and a return guest appearance by renowned topiary artist Pearl Fryar, lovers of fall and folk culture will enjoy a day filled with fall activities for the whole family at the South Carolina State Museum’s annual Fall Heritage Festival & Pickin’ Party on Saturday, Nov. 5 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
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10/18/11
South Carolina State Museum Presents Southeastern Premiere of Spectacular BODY WORLDS Exhibition
Continuing its tradition of bringing to South Carolina impactful and important exhibits, the South Carolina State Museum will bring what is most likely the most spectacular of them all to Columbia on Nov. 13 – Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS Vital.
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10/13/11
Tricks and Treats at the State Museum, Oct. 22 and 29
Where can families go for two Saturdays of safe Halloween fun? Follow the ghosts, ghouls and goblins to the South Carolina State Museum on Oct. 22 and Oct. 29 as the museum presents its annual Halloween event for families, “Tricks and Treats at the State Museum!”
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10/12/11
South Carolina State Museum Launches $23 Million Transformation, Renovation
The South Carolina State Museum Wednesday (Oct. 12, 2011) launched its $23 million expansion and renovation project, Windows to New Worlds, which will transform the museum’s capacity to engage, educate and inspire visitors at its historic site in Columbia, across the state and beyond.
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10/10/11
Exhibit Recalls Historic Quake on 125th Anniversary
Most people think of the West Coast when they think of earthquakes in the United States. But a new exhibit that opened Oct. 8 at the South Carolina State Museum points out that the second biggest quake in U.S. history occurred right here in South Carolina.
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10/07/11
Artist-Turned-First- Responder to Recall 9/11 At State Museum Oct. 15
It is known simply as 9/11. The tragic events that occurred 10 years ago on Sept. 11, 2001 took the lives of thousands in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., and changed the course of American history.
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09/30/11
Silhouette Artist Returns to State Museum Oct. 15
Great artists sometimes take years to produce a single portrait. Lowcountry silhouette artist Clay Rice does it in shy of 60 seconds with the aid of a piece of paper and a very sharp pair of scissors.
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09/22/11
Sidewalk Stargazing Returns Oct. 1
It’ll be a grand night for looking at Jupiter!
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09/13/11
World-Class Telescope Collection is Major Acquisition For Museum
The stunning collection of historic telescopes donated to the South Carolina State Museum by collector Robert Ariail of Columbia is more than merely a group of scopes gathered randomly over a lifetime, according to Director of Education Tom Falvey.
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09/13/11
Major Astronomy Collection Donated to State Museum, USC
The South Carolina State Museum and the University of South Carolina have acquired a major collection of historic telescopes and astronomy books, documents and equipment.
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09/02/11
State Museum Remembers 9/11 with Beam, Photos
Sept. 11, 2001 was a day that changed America forever. And from that tragedy, heroes and heroines arose, and everyone knows who they are: the police, firefighters and emergency personnel who responded at the risk of their own lives.
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08/09/11
State Museum’s Folk Art has “Uncommon” Appeal
Whiskey bottles made of coat hangers, held in the coat hanger hands of coat hanger cowboys; face jugs of clay making faces of fear or displeasure; wooden turkeys and homemade turkey calls; paintings, drawings and carvings of fantasy; airplanes with fans for propellers; and so much more.
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08/05/11
S.C. State Museum to Present Hunley Submarine Program
Visitors to the South Carolina State Museum will have one more chance this summer to learn the fateful history of the Confederate submarine
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07/29/11
Two Weeks Remain to Enjoy Summer Camps at SC State Museum
Summer day camps continue at the South Carolina State Museum with the focus on science, fun and learning in the upcoming weeks
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07/26/11
Toy Soldier Show returns to S.C. State Museum
The world of toy soldiers and “military miniatures” is once again featured as the South Carolina State Museum presents its 20th annual Southeastern Toy Soldier Show on Saturday, Aug. 13.
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07/21/11
New Civil War Exhibit Presents Soldiers’ Lives
The second phase of a four-year expansion of the South Carolina State Museum’s Civil War exhibit opens July 23 with a depiction of the everyday lives of the Confederate soldiers from South Carolina.
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07/08/11
State Museum Silver Program Series Continues in July and August
Fans of South Carolina silver have a few more weeks to enjoy the South Carolina State Museum’s elegant exhibit South Carolina Silver: Varieties in Society 1750 – 1935, which closes Saturday, Aug. 28. They also have three opportunities to enjoy a series of fascinating silver programs by nationally renowned silver expert Dawn E. Corley, better known as “The Charleston Silver Lady.” The programs are scheduled before the end of the exhibit and feature Corley’s captivating Tabletops series and enthralling silver workshop.
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07/02/11
Museum Road Show Returns for Summer Edition
Was that oil painting you found at an estate sale painted by an Old Master or just a clever copy? Is the antique silver teapot and sugar tongs left to you by great-aunt Mildred really the work of Paul Revere? Will your collection of vintage Barbie dolls finance your son’s college education? Curious guests will have their chance to find out about all kinds of artifacts, collectibles, antiques and heirlooms as the South Carolina State Museum presents the summer edition of one of its most popular events, the Museum Road Show, on Saturday, July 16.
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06/29/11
State Museum Displays USC Baseball Memorabilia
University of South Carolina baseball fans now have twice as much reason to crow after the Gamecocks won their second consecutive national championship June 28.
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06/17/11
State Museum to Hold “Girls in Science Day” June 24
More than 125 middle school girls (and boys) will gather to learn about careers in science during “Girls in Science Day” at the South Carolina State Museum on June 24 from noon to 5 p.m. Now in its sixth year at the museum, the goal of “Girls in Science Day” is to provide young girls with opportunities to engage in hands-on science and math activities, meet and talk with women from different science fields and recognize the need for women to pursue careers in these fields.
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06/09/11
Summer Camps Will Thrill at S.C. State Museum
Summer day camps are back at the South Carolina State Museum with the focus on science and art in the upcoming months.
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