Historic Textiles Online Gallery Guide

Today we are excited to announce the Online Gallery Guide for our Historic Textiles Gallery. Along with labels and traditional gallery guides in the exhibit, this online guide provides the visitor another route into the Charleston Museum’s amazing textile collection. With the growing adoption of smart phones and tablets we hope that this guide provides an alternative and easy-to-use view of our current textile exhibits: Botanical Quilts, “We Have Just Begun to Fight!”, Coat Check, and Fashion Plates.

Holiday Decorations at the Joseph Manigault House 2011

Each year, the Garden Club of Charleston uses the Joseph Manigault House as a backdrop for their creative arrangements, using only live plant materials that would have been available in the Lowcountry during the first quarter of the 19th century. This year's theme is "Charleston's Antebellum Charms".

Here is a SNEAK PEEK at the 2012 Decorations!

Farrow Furnture

With gratitude from the estate of Mrs. Emily R. Farrow, a lifelong collection donor, The Charleston Museum has just added four new Charleston-made pieces of neo-classical furniture, including a remarkable secretary bookcase attributed to local cabinetmaker, Robert Walker circa 1805. This large piece of case furniture along with another Charleston card table is now on display inside the Joseph Manigault House.