Great Outdoors Month: Mark Catesby

Great Outdoors Month first started as a Great Outdoors Week in 1998. The main aim was to increase jobs and the GDP of the country by getting people to enjoy nature and appreciate it. This display features Volume 2 of Catesby’s Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. Mark Catesby, an avid outdoorsman, was an English naturalist who studied the flora and fauna of the New World and helped educate the world about the great outdoors through his works.

Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands in  our display case.

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Silver oyster shaped jewelrey on a wooden table.

Speaker at the Center: Silversmith Kaminer Haislip, "Charleston Silver, Past to Present"

August 7, 2025, 6:00 PM

Join us at the next installment of the Speaker at the Center series with Charleston silversmith Kaminer Haislip. Haislip's rice spoon was recently added to the Charleston Museum's collection and she has received a grant from SC Humanities to study silver techniques abroad. Kaminer will present a lecture titled Charleston Silver, Past to Present on the history of colonial Charleston silversmithing and how it relates to her contemporary silver designs.

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