South Carolina State Museum
- South Carolina State Museum
The South Carolina State Museum, located in Columbia, South Carolina, is the largest museum in the Southeastern United States. Positioned on an old shipping canal on the Congaree River that dates back to pre-Civil War times, the museum is widely recognized as a resource for South Carolina history and lifestyle. The museum opened in 1988 and is housed in what was once a booming textile mill. On certain levels of the museum, the original flooring has been kept intact, distinguishable by hundreds of textile brads and rings (that carried the threads during the spinning process) that became embedded in the floor while it was still being used as a mill. The museum is notable for its recreation of a Megalodon suspended mid-air on the second floor just around a corner, which has scared countless groups of young children.
Artist Kent Pendleton has hidden leprechauns in several of the murals. A recent March tradition, for St. Patrick's Day, has been a contest to find all the leprechauns. [http://www.sc.gov/NewsCenter/StateMuseum/pr07012.htm]
The State Museum has been the subject of controversy among South Carolinians on several occasions, usually as a result of what some see as superfluous allocation of public funds. [http://www.allbusiness.com/government/government-bodies-offices-heads-state/10253560-1.html]
External links
* [http://www.museum.state.sc.us South Carolina State Museum Website]
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