Charleston Museum

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The Charleston Museum is a popular tourist destination in downtown Charleston, near the Visitor's Center. Founded in 1773, it is known as "America's First Museum".

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3 Other Charleston Museum Attractions
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Exhibitions

Permanent exhibitions

Charleston Historical Exhibition: Highlights include early tradeware, slave tags, artifacts from eras of rice and cotton, the chair in which delegates sat to sign South Carolina’s Ordinance of Secession, and firearms and ordinance from the War Between the States.
Charleston Silver: This exhibition features an outstanding display of early silver including the christening cup of George Washington.
Charleston Museum, the Early Days: This contains objects from the institution’s distant past including an Egyptian mummy, jarred biological specimens preserved in rum, and a plaster cast of the monumental statue of Pharaoh Rameses II, acquired from The British Museum in the 1890s.
The Naturalist: Noted naturalists working or living here included John James Audubon, André Michaux, Mark Catesby and the Reverend John Bachman. Current exhibitions include a wide array of modern birds, as well as mounted skeletons of prehistoric animals including a primitive toothed whale, an 18-foot-long crocodile, and the second largest known flying bird, all from 28-million-year-old marine beds near Charleston, and a Cretaceous plant-eating dinosaur, Thescelosaurus neglectus.

Special exhibitions

Age of Glamour: On display now through Feb 18th 2007. The collection displays fashions of the 1920s and 1930s.
Seaweeds, Wonders of the Ocean Realm: On display from Nov 1st 2006 to April 30th 2007. Seaweeds is a photograph and specimen series detailing the museums vast collection of marine algae.

Traveling exhibitions

The only listed traveling exhibition is Redcoats: The British Soldier in South Carolina. This exhibition is avalible for rent to be displayed in locations other than the Charleston Museum.