Charleston Museum

The Charleston Museum is a nice place to go once. There's no real draw to interest you in making return trips. It's not very expensive but the experience doesn't last long because there's not much to see. It seems just the same to me as it did twenty years ago. There may have been an exhibit added since then but I noticed nothing new. All in all, not a bad place to see but Charleston offers much more interesting entertainment than this museum. more

As a tourist, I may be less than impressed with the museum. Considering Charleston is such a historic city, I have high aspirations for the museum and what it can become. As a teacher, I am impressed with how far they are willing to go to help us out. Since we are very limited in field trips for our students, the museum comes to the schools and brings exhibits. This is so important since our kids don't get a chance to see what is in their backyards other than in school. The museum is extremely flexible and I am in love with that aspect of it. more

The Charleston Museum has been the same since I was a wee lass visiting it in the late 70's and early 80's. Nothing has changed. There are no new exhibits, no new nothing. I think the newest addition was the Discover Me room that was installed around '82 or so. All and all, it's not a horrible museum, considering it's small and not updated much. I still love to see the Mummy, with his bony toes poking through, and the cotton gin---things like that remind me of my youth. There's the big whale skeleton that hangs above the entrance way, and the replica of the Hunley Submarine outside. It's not too terribly expensive to get inside, but it doesn't take very long to go through the exhibits. They do a good job, though, of giving really great examples of what Charleston was like in years past. The gift shop is very small, and there is no place to eat or drink there either. Obviously, this isn't going to be a run-in for National History Museum. But it's not bad more