I love the Charleston Museum, and it is considered America's First Museum, although the original "first" museum was in a different location and burned down many years ago.
I always find that children seem to like the Charleston Museum more than adults do. I think it's because children are, for the first time, seeing the funny clothes and interesting styles of old times, where as us adults have been exposed to these things throughout our lives and seem to have forgotten the novelty of seeing hoop-skirts for the first time.
Museum is full of old Charleston artificats and history with many hands-on exhibits. There is a replication of the USS Hunley outside.
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