Upcountry History Museum

Family Fun Day
2018-08-05 13:00 - 16:00 UTC
Enjoy games and story times, and meet some friends from The Greenville Zoo! Kids can plant their own beanstalk, create a shield, and become their own talking spider just like Anansi (from the exhibit).

Family Fun Days are FREE with regular Museum admission.

Monday Matinee Movie
2018-07-30 14:00 - 15:30
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Explore your favorite fairy tales from Once Upon a Time through film.
Movies are free to Museum Members and free with regular admission to all other guests.

UHM Kids Book Club
2018-07-24 15:30 - 17:00
Join Jack and Annie on their historic adventures. Read the book at home, then enjoy games, crafts, and more at the Museum. All book club meetings are free to Museum Members and free with regular admission for all other guests.
July 24 will feature Dingoes at Dinnertime.

Lunchbox Learning
2018-07-18 12:00 - 13:00
Remember Old Hickory
Presenter: Don Koonce
The 30th Infantry Division broke the Hindenburg line in 1918, which led to the end of World War I and created a lasting legacy for our local community. The Old Hickory Division, as the 30th was known, trained at Camp Sevier in Greenville and included hundreds of local soldiers as well as men from the rest of South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee. Join Don Koonce as he explores that unique moment in history, and what it meant both locally and on the global stage.
Programs run from 12 Noon – 1:00 PM
FREE to members – Regular admission for other guests
Drinks and Dessert Provided

Toddler Time!
2018-07-18 10:30 - 11:30
Bring your little ones out for a tea party-themed Toddler Time! We will have games designed specifically for children ages 1-4 years old, yummy treats from Trader Joe’s of Greenville, and a tea party setup that your child is sure to love. So, wear your fancy dress, hat, suspenders or just bring your favorite stuffed animal to accompany you to our tea party!

Monday Matinee Movie
2018-07-16 14:00 - 15:30
Thumbelina (1994)
Explore your favorite fairy tales from Once Upon a Time through film.
Movies are free to Museum Members and free with regular admission to all other guests.

Teacher Open House
2018-07-16 10:30 - 12:30
Calling all TEACHERS! Come out to the Museum this summer for one of our Teacher Open Houses, and find out how the Museum can enhance your lesson planning!
Drop-in for a quick run-down of the Museum’s educational offerings. We will discuss our core curriculum field trips, available scholarships, various resources (such as our On-the-Road field trips and Traveling Trunks), and talk about our upcoming traveling exhibitions for the 2018-2019 school year, and even the 2019-2020 school year.
Admission is free for teachers, and we will be providing coffee and snacks.
Have kids? Don’t worry! Bring them on and let them enjoy our summer exhibition, Once Upon a Time: Exploring the World of Fairy Tales, at no cost to you. We will have a member of the Museum’s Education Team supervising the exhibit space and your children.

UHM Kids Book Club
2018-07-10 15:30 - 17:00
Join Jack and Annie on their historic adventures. Read the book at home, then enjoy games, crafts, and more at the Museum. All book club meetings are free to Museum Members and free with regular admission for all other guests.
July 10 will feature Soccer on Sunday.

CLOSED FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY
2018-07-04
Happy 4th of July!
The Museum will be closed on July 4th in honor of Independence Day. We look forward to seeing you again starting at 10:00 am on Thursday, July 5. Enjoy a happy and safe holiday.

Monday Matinee Movie
2018-07-02 14:00 - 16:00
1776
Celebrate Independence Day with a musical romp through the days leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Movies are free to Museum Members and free with regular admission to all other guests.

Family Fun Day
2018-07-01 13:00 - 16:00
Designed to immerse visitors into an unique and educational experience that takes traditional story time to a new interactive level in a three-dimensional, fully developed world which emphasizes the importance of reading and the significance of fairy tales throughout history.
Enjoy games and crafts with story times!

Sunday, July 1 at 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Family Fun Days are FREE with regular Museum admission.

Monday Matinee Movie
2018-06-25 14:00 - 15:30
Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
Explore your favorite fairy tales from Once Upon a Time through film.
Movies are free to Museum Members and free with regular admission to all other guests.
Buy your tickets today!

Chautauqua Coffee Talk
2018-06-23 09:00 - 10:00
Meet the Chautauqua History Alive Festival performers off-stage. One performer and their Historical Character will be featured each morning. Often the other performers and Chautauqua staff join in the fun. In an intimate setting over free coffee, you can discuss their character, themselves or “whatever.”
Admission to the event is Free. When the event is over, the Upcountry History Museum will be open. If you are not already a Museum member, admission to the Museum is $8 adults, $7 seniors and $6 for children.
Saturday, June 23 – Francis Marion – Ken Johnston

Chautauqua Coffee Talk
2018-06-22 09:00 - 10:00
Meet the Chautauqua History Alive Festival performers off-stage. One performer and their Historical Character will be featured each morning. Often the other performers and Chautauqua staff join in the fun. In an intimate setting over free coffee, you can discuss their character, themselves or “whatever.”
Admission to the event is Free. When the event is over, the Upcountry History Museum will be open. If you are not already a Museum member, admission to the Museum is $8 adults, $7 seniors and $6 for children.
Friday, June 22 – Harriet Tubman – Becky Stone

Chautauqua Coffee Talk
2018-06-21 09:00 - 10:00
Meet the Chautauqua History Alive Festival performers off-stage. One performer and their Historical Character will be featured each morning. Often the other performers and Chautauqua staff join in the fun. In an intimate setting over free coffee, you can discuss their character, themselves or “whatever.”
Admission to the event is Free. When the event is over, the Upcountry History Museum will be open. If you are not already a Museum member, admission to the Museum is $8 adults, $7 seniors and $6 for children.
Thursday, June 21 – Alice Paul with Leslie Goddard

Toddler Time!
2018-06-20 10:30 - 11:30
Bring out your little ones to play in our fantastic new exhibit, Once Upon a Time! Beginning at 10:30 a.m., enjoy additional games and crafts that are specifically designed for toddlers, as well as a snack break at 11:00 a.m.
We will provide the snacks and juice!

Wednesday, June 20 at 10:30 a.m.

Chautauqua Coffee Talk
2018-06-20 09:00 - 10:00
Meet the Chautauqua History Alive Festival performers off-stage. One performer and their Historical Character will be featured each morning. Often the other performers and Chautauqua staff join in the fun. In an intimate setting over free coffee, you can discuss their character, themselves or “whatever.”
Admission to the event is Free. When the event is over, the Upcountry History Museum will be open. If you are not already a Museum member, admission to the Museum is $8 adults, $7 seniors and $6 for children.
Wednesday June 20 – Winston Churchill with Larry Bounds

UHM Kids Book Club
2018-06-19 15:30 - 17:00
Join Jack and Annie on their historic adventures. Read the book at home, then enjoy games, crafts, and more at the Museum. All book club meetings are free to Museum Members and free with regular admission for all other guests.
June19 will feature Tigers at Twilight.

Picturing Nam
2018-06-16 - 2018-10-21
Organized by the National Archives
June 16 – October 21, 2018
Photographs are a powerful part of our collective memory of the Vietnam War. Many of the iconic photographs were taken by photojournalists working for newspapers, magazines, or wire services. But there were also military photographers in Vietnam serving in our armed forces. They took thousands of photographs that covered every aspect of the conflict –photographs that are now a part of our National Archives.
Military photographers were sent everywhere: the jungles and swamps, forward bases, hospital ships, rivers, and air bases. Un-sanitized and uncensored, these indelible images give an intimate and ground up view of the war and those who fought it.

Connections Cafe
2018-06-14 14:00 - 15:30
Connections Café is a monthly program at the Upcountry History Museum, in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association. Each meeting offers a fun and relaxed way for people living with early-stage memory loss to get connected with one another through social events that promote interaction and companionship. This is a place where the care partner can receive information while connecting with other care partners. The program utilizes the unique setting of the History Museum to explore topics both from the past and the present through gallery tours and hands-on activities.
Admission is FREE to guests.

Neighborhood Night
2018-06-07 17:30 - 20:30
The Upcountry History Museum – Furman University is thrilled to invite our community to a series of programs designed to make our museum open to everyone! The Museum is open on the first Thursday evening of each month throughout 2018. Neighborhood Nights runs from 5:30-8:30 pm during which time admission to the museum and all museum exhibitions is be FREE.

UHM Kids Book Club
2018-06-05 15:30 - 17:00
Join Jack and Annie on their historic adventures. Read the book at home, then enjoy games, crafts, and more at the Museum. All book club meetings are free to Museum Members and free with regular admission for all other guests.
June 5 will feature The Knight at Dawn.

UHM Kids Book Club
2018-05-22 15:30 - 17:00
Join Jack and Annie on their historic adventures. Read the book at home, then enjoy games, crafts, and more at the Museum. All book club meetings are free to Museum Members and free with regular admission for all other guests.
May 22 will feature Night of the Ninjas.

Armed Forces Day
2018-05-19 10:00 - 16:00
Celebrate Armed Forces Day with the American Super Soldier – Captain America! Enjoy free coffee and donuts (while supplies last), meet Captain America (11-Noon), and enjoy a screening of Captain America (Noon). Explore the hands-on touch table with military artifacts. Scavenger hunts with military prizes will be available for children.

Everyday heroes and heroines get $1 off admission (includes military personnel, police officers, firemen, EMTs, doctors, and nurses).

History After Dark
2018-04-19 18:30 - 20:30
History After Dark

A new Upcountry History Museum lecture series that mixes historical research with contemporary topics for a unique experience.
Thursday, April 19 at 7:00 p.m.
Presented by Dr. Elizabeth Dowling Taylor,
Author of A Slave in the White House and
The Original Black Elite
Exploring Shifting Prospects for African Americans From 1800 to 1920 through Biography
Tickets: $20 per person, 10% discount for Museum Members
Ticket includes: lecture and dessert. Book signing optional. Books available for purchase through the Museum Store.
RSVP – 864-467-3100
“The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery.” – W.E.B. Dubois

Friday Flicks
2018-04-19 13:00 - 15:30
Triumph of the Soul: The Story of Two Holocaust Survivors
Join us for a Friday Flick in connection with “The Power of Children” exhibition and the story of Anne Frank. While young Anne did not survive the horrors of the concentration camps, learn about two individuals who did. Hear their story in their own words with this moving documentary by the Greenville Jewish Federation.

Connections Cafe
2018-04-12 14:00 - 15:30
The Connections Café is a program in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association. The monthly meeting offers a fun and relaxed way for people living with early-stage memory loss to get connected with one another through social events that promote interaction and companionship. This is a place where the care partner can receive information while connecting and sharing with other people in similar situations. The bonds formed in Connections Cafés often last throughout the continuum of the disease and become an additional support for those involved.
Each month the Connections Café group will tour one of the Museum exhibitions and then have a social with snacks and a hands-on activity. Admission to the Connections Café is free.

Friday Flick
2018-04-06 14:00 - 16:00
Superman the Movie (1978)
See the films that inspired the work of Alex Ross on the big screen at the Upcountry History Museum.
Movies are free to Museum Members and free with regular admission to all other guests.

Neighborhood Night
2018-04-05 17:30 - 20:30 | Upcountry History Museum, 540 Buncombe Street, Greenville, SC, 29601, United States
The Upcountry History Museum – Furman University is committed to making our museum open to everyone. Thanks to generous grant support the Museum is open on the first Thursday evening of every month for Neighborhood Nights. Neighborhood Nights will run from 5:30-8:30 pm during which time admission to the museum and all museum exhibitions will be FREE.
Neighborhood Nights will include story times for younger visitors and book give-a-ways for children. Books will be connected to the theme of the current Main Gallery exhibition.
We hope that through Neighborhood Nights we can show that museums are available for families regardless of economic constraints. No registration is required. Book give-a-ways are limited in number and will be distributed on a first come, first served bases. For questions please email info@upcountryhistory.org.

Friday Flick
2018-03-30 13:00 - 15:00
Flash Gordon (1981)
See the films that inspired the work of Alex Ross on the big screen at the Upcountry History Museum.
Movies are free to Museum Members and free with regular admission to all other guests.
