Museums in South Carolina

Get some farm-to-table history at this living history museum, where you’ll learn what farm life was like a hundred years ago.

This Myrtle Beach art museum features a rotating display of pieces by artists from James Audubon to Frank Lloyd Wright, but it’s their collection of Southern works that truly impresses.

Once a safe haven for Black patrons and performers—including Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington—during the Jim Crow era, portions of this nightclub and motel have been restored to welcome a new kind of visitor.

From the 1940 Ford Coupe that started it all 50 years ago, this collection of over 150 classic vehicles celebrates the spirit and history of American car craft.

This historic museum is home to a rare Confederate Chester Gun.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.

This museum gives tribute to the underappreciated "Down-South Submarine."

Dental instruments from the illustrious history of American dentistry.