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Smithsonian Affiliate museum part of City of Greensboro Public Library Dedicated to & Greensboro's people for over a century.

The Greensboro History Museum – AAM-accredited and a Smithsonian Affiliate – is a division of the City of Greensboro Libraries & Museum Department and operates as a public-private partnership with the nonprofit GHM Inc. Together with our diverse communities, the Greensboro History Museum collects objects and stories, connects generations, and challenges people to explore our city’s past, present and future. The Museum sparks wonder through bold exhibitions and creative public programs. We encourage dialogue, and we care for all that is entrusted to us.

Ready for Spooky Season in the Gate City? 🦇🎃 Check out these amazing October programs at the Greensboro History Museum...
10/10/2026

Ready for Spooky Season in the Gate City? 🦇🎃

Check out these amazing October programs at the Greensboro History Museum ⬆️

Learn more at https://buff.ly/2XwhRrI

Can you dig it? Saturday, October 17 is going to be a day of fun hands-on activities and demonstrations at the Museum ...
10/09/2026

Can you dig it? Saturday, October 17 is going to be a day of fun hands-on activities and demonstrations at the Museum as we explore the field of archaeology from 1 to 4 pm. Our friends Guilford Courthouse National Military Park and UNCG College of Arts & Sciences Archaeology Program will be joining us to share their research and activities. This program is free for the whole family.

Learn more at https://buff.ly/rsvPY4W

UNCG Department of Classical Studies

Looking for something to do this weekend? The team is out and about. Come find us! This Saturday 10/10 from 11 am to ...
10/08/2026

Looking for something to do this weekend? The team is out and about. Come find us!

This Saturday 10/10 from 11 am to 2 pm we are exploring colonial life at the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park ’s Fall Festival. Stop by our tent on the Nathanael Greene monument lawn.

Hope to see you there!

On Sunday, October 18 don’t miss Smithsonian Institution’s Distinguished Scholar and Ambassador-at-Large Richard Kurin d...
10/06/2026

On Sunday, October 18 don’t miss Smithsonian Institution’s Distinguished Scholar and Ambassador-at-Large Richard Kurin discussing his new book, “History by a Hair: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings & Solving a 200-Year-Old Mystery.”

“History by a Hair,” recently featured in the The New York Times, is the definitive account of how a discarded strand of hair found in Thomas Jefferson’s Bible at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History led to a sweeping, multi-year genomic investigation, drawing on technological advances in DNA to finally resolve a 200-year national controversy.

Free program starts at 3 pm. Signing to follow with copies for sale from Scuppernong Books.

Let us know you are attending at https://buff.ly/X6fUrAr

Smithsonian Affiliations

This weekend, come in from the links and take a last look at our Highlights exhibit "Fore-Play! The History of the GGO...
10/02/2026

This weekend, come in from the links and take a last look at our Highlights exhibit "Fore-Play! The History of the GGO." Sunday is the last day to take it all in... 🏌️ ⛳️

New Collections Highlights exhibit coming soon!

Museum open 10-5 Saturday, 2-5 Sunday.

Today 9/26 is International Lace Day. Check out this delicate and intricate piece from . 👗 This Victorian transformatio...
09/25/2026

Today 9/26 is International Lace Day. Check out this delicate and intricate piece from . 👗

This Victorian transformation dress from 1902-1905 has some great examples of intricate lacework. The dress was owned by Cammie Gozeal Lindley, daughter of Pomona Nurseries’ J. Van Lindley and Lysandra Cook. Being from a prominent Greensboro family, her wedding with Clarence Leak in 1907 was a big to-do catching the eye of Gate City society. This dress and her wedding dress, also in GHM Collections, speak to Mrs. Leak’s fashion sense and are great examples of the height of fashion in early 1900s Greensboro.

You can help GHM preserve these dresses with a donation to the GHM Inc. Adopt an Object fund! A conservator will work to release wrinkles and address small tears, but also encapsulate the lace, a stabilizing technique where a fragile or fragmented textile is sandwiched between two layers of a sheer, transparent support fabric to protect it from further physical damage, snagging, or loss.

Learn more and adopt at https://buff.ly/ozgReIU

A new Community Voices display from Casa Azul of Greensboro opens this Saturday 9/26! Join us at 5:30 pm for a Quinceañe...
09/25/2026

A new Community Voices display from Casa Azul of Greensboro opens this Saturday 9/26!

Join us at 5:30 pm for a Quinceañera dress fashion show, performances, and a community conversation panel at the Greensboro History Museum. The discussion will explore the significance of the Quince in Latino culture in Greensboro and beyond. Local experts taking part include: Marisa González (Educational Developer, University Teaching and Learning Commons, and Adjunct Lecturer, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at UNCG), Liliana Lira-River (UNCG professor and owner of Lily & Co Beauty Lounge), Dr. Yuliana Rodriguez (Clinical Associate Professor in the Human Development and Family Science program within the School of Education at UNC-Chapel Hill), and Adamarys Avalos (Co-owner of J&A Choreography).

This program is co-organized with Casa Azul of Greensboro. The arts and culture organization is turning 15 this year, and part of the festivities include creating this Community Voices display in the museum lobby that will be on view through October. The event is free and refreshments will be served.

North Carolina Folk Festival is September 18-20! The Greensboro History Museum is open 10am-5pm Saturday and 12-5 pm Sun...
09/18/2026

North Carolina Folk Festival is September 18-20! The Greensboro History Museum is open 10am-5pm Saturday and 12-5 pm Sunday with special activities around the building. Museum parking unavailable Friday-Sunday due to street closures.

Learn more about the NC Folk Festival Footprint at https://buff.ly/IvKuONN

North Carolina Folk Festival is just two days away! The Roots are headlining, so and in homage to Questlove's book , he...
09/17/2026

North Carolina Folk Festival is just two days away! The Roots are headlining, so and in homage to Questlove's book , here are a few figures from the Gate City’s :

Born enslaved in Guilford County, Orpheus McAdoo received an education from Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and traveled the world singing spirituals with the Fisk Jubilee Singers in the 1880s and 1890s. 📷Yale University Library archives

Margaret M. Falkener founded the North Carolina A&T State University Music Department in 1895. Later she was the first female supervisor of Guilford County Rural Schools. 📷 ca. 1908, Courtesy of Falkener Family

Laura and Charles Brockmann were siblings who owned their own music school on Walker Avenue and established the State Normal and Industrial College’s Special Department of Instrumental Music, which is now UNCG School of Music! 📷 ca. 1890,

Rhiannon Giddens, UNCG Alumna, two-time Grammy Award-winning and Pulitzer Prize-winning folk musician. 📷GHMArchives

Join us this weekend at the North Carolina Folk Festival in the Mary Lynn Richardson Park for fun hands-on activities and to explore our historic houses. Learn more at https://buff.ly/BTwKq6p

This help us celebrate local Latino arts organization Casa Azul of Greensboro’s 15th anniversary with a Quinceañera dr...
09/16/2026

This help us celebrate local Latino arts organization Casa Azul of Greensboro’s 15th anniversary with a Quinceañera dress fashion show and a community panel at the museum on Saturday, September 26 from 5:30-7:30 pm.

Join in the discussion as we explore the significance of the Quince in Latino culture in Greensboro and beyond. Explore the new Community Voices display opening that Saturday and stay for refreshments to celebrate the history, legacy, and future of Casa Azul of Greensboro!

Free program. https://buff.ly/NzMvBQI

Smithsonian Affiliations National Museum of the American Latino

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130 Summit Avenue
Greensboro, NC
27401

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Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 2pm - 5pm

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