COLUMBIA

Create Art, explore the galleries, and enjoy exciting, interactive performances!  The Kid's Café provides dinner and snacks for purchase. Featu... more information...

Join us as we celebrate song and dance – from Broadway to the beach, country to the classics, pop to patriotic, and much, much more.   

Popular musical selections from "Phantom of ... more information...

Doo Doo Brown

Recently named the badest boy of comedy by Diddy himself! Doo Doo Brown is a must see show for those who can handle rough, raw comedy at it's best!

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At Noon, the Boat Parade will process around Bomb Island.

At dusk (approximately 9:15pm) experience SC's Largest... more information...

How would you like to take your children or grandchildren for a ride on a real passenger train, visit a red caboose or an authentic dining car, or even a Pullman car that once ferried earlier gener... more information...

Come listen to a diverse lineup of South Carolina's best musicians! Come to the park for a free concert including blues, rock, beach, reggae, jazz, big band, salsa and more! Sponsored by the Columb... more information...

Exhibit focusing on the often overlooked aspects of South Carolinians in WWI, including involvement of African-Americans and women. Learn about warfare technology, aviation, and artillery.  Explore... more information...

This exhibit showcases the significant number of movies produced in South Carolina over the past 100 years.  Explore the complexity of moviemaking while enjoying photographs, movie clips, filmmakin... more information...

This exhibit, marking t... more information...

Hutty made his first visit to South Carolina in 1919 to teach classes at the Gibbes Memorial Art Gallery.  Almost immediately after arriving in Charleston, Hutty cabled his wife and instructed her ... more information...

This exhibition celebrates both the 20th Anniversary of the State Museum's opening and the diversity of South Carolina art.  The first juried art exhibition hosted exclusively by the State... more information...

Our local rivers and waterways include the historic and scenic Congaree River, the cold clear Saluda River with its rapidly changing water levels and three miles of whitewater rapids, the Broad Riv... more information...

See images of the recovery process of a World War II bomber that had been at the bottom of Lake Murray, South Carolina for more than 62 years until it was finally recovered in 2005.  Photograhs, ar... more information...

McKissick Museum will honor the life and work of the late Helen Hill, a Columbia native who was an experimental artist, animator, filmmaker and activist, in an exhibit. Hill was murdered in January... more information...

From bathing suits and beach pails to hotel ballrooms, this exhibit details the early development of the Carolina coast as a summer destination for tourists and South Carolinians.  Visitors will ex... more information...

Early twentieth century table cloths and runners, doilies, guest towels, embroidery, crochet and tatting.

An exhibit of black-and-white photography by writer and photographer David Gelin, who travelled throughout the South documenting barbecue restaurants and the owners who continue this culinary tradi... more information...

Our local rivers and waterways include the historic and scenic Congaree River, the cold clear Saluda River with its rapidly changing water levels and three miles of whitewater rapids, the Broad Riv... more information...

Join Donkey, Cat and Rooster on an exciting adventure as they travel to Bremen Town to prove their worth and earn their fame and fortune! 

The phrase“South Carolina under one roof” takes new meaning in this exhibit celebrating the S.C. State Museummore information...

This five-panel exhibit examines the life of one-time South Carolina resident and United States President Woodrow Wilson.

In conjunction with exhibition Carolina Collects, the work of South Carolina native Constantine Manos is in the Mamie and William Andrew Treadway, Jr. Gallery. The Greek Portfolio represents an imp... more information...

Find out how air moves and influences our environment.  Paint a wall of fluttering "shimmer disks" with a spray of air and race balls to learn the effects of turbulence.  Make discoveries... more information...

You won't be able to resist the spoofy fun of Reefer Madness. Inspired by the original 1936 film of the same name, this raucous musical comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria ... more information...

Carolina Collects celebrates the spirit of private collectors who have been instrumental in the formation and continued vitality of art collections throughou... more information...