Greensboro History Museum

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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 communi

ties, 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.

Visitors to the Changing Times section of the museum’s Voices of a City exhibition meet many Gate City boundary breakers...
09/03/2026

Visitors to the Changing Times section of the museum’s Voices of a City exhibition meet many Gate City boundary breakers.

One of them is Carolyn Allen (1932-2026), first woman mayor of City of Greensboro, who is being remembered this week. “I’m not the standard expectation here,” she told a Southern Oral History Program interviewer in 1994.

After serving three consecutive terms between 1993 and 1999, she continued her public service in the city. As a co-chair of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Local Task Force from 2003, she helped steer the community effort to account for the causes of and response to the November 3, 1979, Greensboro Massacre. Carolyn S. Allen Regional Park Complex in NW Greensboro is named in her honor.

Check it out! 🎥 For today only, the Greensboro History Museum is joining a select group of organizations across the Unit...
08/28/2026

Check it out! 🎥

For today only, the Greensboro History Museum is joining a select group of organizations across the United States to present “August 28: A Day in the Life of a People” commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the Museum of African American History and Culture.

The August 28th film highlights pivotal moments in Black history that all occurred on a single date.

View this film today at https://greensborohistory.org/event/august28/

Since 1971, the United States has commemorated the certification of the 19th Amendment with Women’s Equality Day on Augu...
08/26/2026

Since 1971, the United States has commemorated the certification of the 19th Amendment with Women’s Equality Day on August 26. The holiday’s creation was fueled by congressional support for the 1970 Women's Strike for Equality.

Greensboro suffragists and area community leaders such as Harriett Elliot, Laura Cone, and Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown fought for the right to vote before the passage of the 19th Amendment. Learn more about North Carolina’s suffrage history in our virtual exhibition, NC Democracy: Eleven Elections. https://buff.ly/tEz0SrQ

📷 UNCG Special Collections & University Archives, State Archives of North Carolina, and Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum State Historic Site

Happy to Guilford County Schools staff and students! 📷 Grimsley High School Student Bus Drivers, 1972 edition of the ...
08/24/2026

Happy to Guilford County Schools staff and students!

📷 Grimsley High School Student Bus Drivers, 1972 edition of the Whirligig, North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

Teachers, are you planning for the 2026-2027 school year? The Greensboro History Museum offers free, fun guided visits that cover a variety of North Carolina Social Studies Standards. Plus, bring history to life in your classroom with easy-to-use Traveling Trunks.

Learn more at https://buff.ly/5oLZF0e

Know an organization or individual that is preserving Greensboro’s history or adding to our understanding of it? Nominat...
08/22/2026

Know an organization or individual that is preserving Greensboro’s history or adding to our understanding of it?

Nominations are being accepted now through September 27 for the Greensboro History Museum’s prestigious Voices of a City Awards for 2026. The awards recognize significant and original contributions to a deeper understanding of local history. Winners will be honored at the GHM Inc. Annual Dinner on November 9.

Learn more about how to nominate a deserving individual or group at https://buff.ly/Ek6SEiP

📷2026 Voices of a City award winners, Conversations in Black Community History Project (Lynn Donovan Photography/GHM)

New Treasures on View in Our GHM100 Exhibition! 💎 Every few months our curators rotate a few treasures on display in the...
08/21/2026

New Treasures on View in Our GHM100 Exhibition! 💎

Every few months our curators rotate a few treasures on display in the GHM100: Treasures. Legacies. Remix exhibition. Items newly on view include:

✏️Pencil sketches of drugstore customers hand-drawn by a teenage William Sidney Porter (later known by his pen name O. Henry) in the 1870s.

👗Bold and intricate Nigerian garments from Dr. William and Mattye Reed and their family’s time in West Africa in the 1960s.

These join a selection of other collections treasures on view in the exhibition – a lively look at the museum’s 100+ year history, its remarkable collections, and its deep roots in the Greensboro community.

Learn more at https://greensborohistory.org/exhibition/ghm100-treasures-legacies-remix/

Teachers, are you planning for the 2026-2027 school year? The Greensboro History Museum offers free, fun guided visits t...
08/16/2026

Teachers, are you planning for the 2026-2027 school year? The Greensboro History Museum offers free, fun guided visits that cover a variety of North Carolina Social Studies Standards.

Learn more at https://buff.ly/B4mPpsd


P.S. Looking for flexible museum experiences to bring into your classroom? Check out our Traveling Trunks!

We are splashing into the last days of summer with swimming scenes from ! 🏊🏾Children play in the Warnersville neighbo...
08/15/2026

We are splashing into the last days of summer with swimming scenes from !

🏊🏾Children play in the Warnersville neighborhood pool, about 1974. Photograph Collection

🤿 Woman prepares to dive into the pool at the White Oak YMCA, 1947. ©Carol W. Martin/Greensboro History Museum Collection

️⛑️Swimmers practice emergency techniques at Greensboro Parks and Recreation Windsor Community Center swimming pool, 1947. ©Carol W. Martin/Greensboro History Museum Collection

🩱A group of campers in swimsuits pose at Camp Herman, 1947. ©Carol W. Martin/Greensboro History Museum Collection

Where is your favorite spot to swim in the Gate City?

As our summer interns make their way back to campus, we want to highlight some of their accomplishments over the past fe...
08/14/2026

As our summer interns make their way back to campus, we want to highlight some of their accomplishments over the past few months.

As a Davidson Endowment intern in , The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate student Adalind Angell organized and described manuscript collections. She also digitized and created metadata for photographs and printed materials. She produced finding aids for five collections, including one that contains a diary from an early 20th century automobile trip from Florida to Greensboro and back, as well as one that includes film footage of Greensboro during the 1940s.

Interested in interning at the Greensboro History Museum? Sign up at https://buff.ly/nlx06NM to be notified about upcoming opportunities.

Did you know that Guilford Native American Association is one of the country’s oldest American Indian urban associations...
08/14/2026

Did you know that Guilford Native American Association is one of the country’s oldest American Indian urban associations?

Join us on Saturday, August 15 from 1 to 4 pm at the Greensboro History Museum for Guilford Native American Association at 50: Community Day, conversations and reflections highlighting Native American cultural heritage and experiences in Greensboro and beyond.

This free program is in connection with the Community Voices display, “Guilford Native American Association: Celebrating 50 Years of Culture, Community and Change,” on view in the museum lobby August-September 2026.

FB Event: https://buff.ly/RBJ2W9v

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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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