The Charleston Museum, America's First Museum, founded in 1773.
The herbarium is preserved at the Charleston Museum.
The Charleston Museum purchased the house in 1929 and opened it as a historic house museum in 1930.
During the Civil War, the house was used as a storage place for some of the items from the Charleston Museum.
He opened it to the public in 1782, over forty years before the Charleston Museum, which is generally considered the first of all American museums.
The Charleston Museum was established in 1773 thereby making it the first American museum.
The collection of the Charleston Museum (360 Meeting Street; 803-722-2996), built in 1773, is safe and open to the public.
That battle, in which the 54th's commander, Robert Gould Shaw, lost his life, is fully described at the wonderful Charleston Museum.
A branch of the Charleston Museum and affiliated with the Joseph Manigault House.
In her will, Miss Wilson left the collection to The Charleston Museum.