Need to beat the summer heat? Visit your South Carolina State Museum, now open each Monday through summer beginning Memorial Day, Monday, May 28.
“The State Museum is a great place to go on a holiday – or any day, for that matter – and the new Aliens: Worlds of Possibilities exhibit is the perfect thing to see with the family or friends,” says Tut Underwood, the museum’s public information director.
Now on Mondays through Labor Day, Sept. 3, guests can see other exhibitions each day of the week in addition to Aliens: Worlds of Possibilities. The new exhibit Seeds of Change: South Carolina and the Great War 1917-1918 focuses on the state’s role on the home front and features displays of photographs, weapons, uniforms, a horse-drawn ambulance and more. The exhibit continues through June 1, 2008.
Also opening this summer on June 15 is the exhibit Earth and Space, in which where guests will view breath-taking images of space recorded from space shuttles, the Hubble Telescope, the international space station and more. The exhibit also uses new software to view comets, planets and galaxies and also to take a look back at Earth.
“All these exhibits and more will make for a memorable summer,” says Underwood.
The State Museum also will be open during select days this fall.
For more information on these and other exhibits, call (803) 898-4921 or visit www.southcarolinastatemuseum.org.