The Levine Museum of the New South, is a history museum located in Charlotte, North Carolina whose exhibits focus on life in the North Carolina Piedmont after the American Civil War. The museum includes temporary and permanent exhibits on a range of Southern-related topics.
The museum's permanent exhibit is called "Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers: Charlotte and the Carolina Piedmont in the New South", and features period displays that reflect regional history. The displays include a one-room tenant farmer's house, a cotton mill and mill house, an African-American hospital, an early Belk department store, and a civil-rights era lunch counter. Changing exhibits focus on local culture, art and history.
In March 2013, the Charlotte Museum of History announced plans to move its administrative offices to the Levine Museum.
References
Levine Museum of the New South - Charlotte, North Carolina - Historian Tom Hanchett, Sally and Crystal gave me an in-depth tour of the exhibit, "From Cottonfields to Skyscrapers." Thank you y'all for the tour!
External links
- Levine Museum of the New South - official site
