City of Greensboro, NC
11/03/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 11/03/2025 12:42
History Museum Opening New Centennial Exhibition on Veterans Day
The Greensboro History Museum (GHM) will be open Veterans Day, Tuesday, November 11, for the premier of the highly anticipated centennial exhibition, GHM100: Treasures. Legacies. Remix. This special exhibition is a lively look at the museum's 100 year history, its remarkable collections, and its deep roots in the Greensboro community. Veterans Day will mark a century from the day in 1925 that the museum first welcomed visitors to a single room facility at the Carnegie Public Library.
"The museum's founders chose their opening day very carefully," says Museum Director Carol Ghiorsi Hart. "Armistice Day marked the end of the Great War - WWI - only seven years before, and many of the artifacts on display commemorated the service and sacrifice of Greensboro citizens. That commitment to preserving and sharing local stories is the enduring legacy that still drives us today."
The exhibition offers three perspectives on 100 years of GHM's history and collections. The Treasures section showcases gems of the museum's collections like a pre-Civil War long rifle finely crafted by Jamestown gunsmith Henry Wright and a kaftan that a Tunisian envoy gave Dolley Madison around 1806. Other eye-catching items big and small include jewelry, silver, scrimshaw, stoneware; textiles, trinkets, watercolors, whiskey, and wheels.
The Legacies section looks at people whose choices have shaped GHM's mission, activities, and impact - both within and beyond its walls - across 100 years. It includes a WWI uniform belonging to Capt. Bascom Lee Field and a Belgian doll purchased by Private John B. Callum, the brother of the Museum Society's first president, Alice Callum Bell. Both men died in the war, and the objects were some of the first things the museum collected in 1925.
The Remix section invites visitors to step into an immersive, behind-the-scenes museum vault experience filled with hundreds of artifacts. Samples of toys, paintings, hatpins, purses, and more offer a glimpse into the museum's vast collections. Visitors will be able to virtually create and share their own unique exhibits on digital screens.
"We want people who visit the exhibition to feel like they are a part of this history - that they are the next generation of storytellers," says Hart. "The exhibition is a celebration of our past, but it's also an invitation to help us define our future."
GHM100: Treasures. Legacies. Remix is made possible thanks to the generous support of Margaret and Bill Benjamin, and the O.Henry Hotel and Proximity Hotel. The exhibition runs through spring 2027.
Special hours on Veterans Day, November 11, are 10 am-5 pm. Admission to the museum is free every day.
"The museum's founders chose their opening day very carefully," says Museum Director Carol Ghiorsi Hart. "Armistice Day marked the end of the Great War - WWI - only seven years before, and many of the artifacts on display commemorated the service and sacrifice of Greensboro citizens. That commitment to preserving and sharing local stories is the enduring legacy that still drives us today."
The exhibition offers three perspectives on 100 years of GHM's history and collections. The Treasures section showcases gems of the museum's collections like a pre-Civil War long rifle finely crafted by Jamestown gunsmith Henry Wright and a kaftan that a Tunisian envoy gave Dolley Madison around 1806. Other eye-catching items big and small include jewelry, silver, scrimshaw, stoneware; textiles, trinkets, watercolors, whiskey, and wheels.
The Legacies section looks at people whose choices have shaped GHM's mission, activities, and impact - both within and beyond its walls - across 100 years. It includes a WWI uniform belonging to Capt. Bascom Lee Field and a Belgian doll purchased by Private John B. Callum, the brother of the Museum Society's first president, Alice Callum Bell. Both men died in the war, and the objects were some of the first things the museum collected in 1925.
The Remix section invites visitors to step into an immersive, behind-the-scenes museum vault experience filled with hundreds of artifacts. Samples of toys, paintings, hatpins, purses, and more offer a glimpse into the museum's vast collections. Visitors will be able to virtually create and share their own unique exhibits on digital screens.
"We want people who visit the exhibition to feel like they are a part of this history - that they are the next generation of storytellers," says Hart. "The exhibition is a celebration of our past, but it's also an invitation to help us define our future."
GHM100: Treasures. Legacies. Remix is made possible thanks to the generous support of Margaret and Bill Benjamin, and the O.Henry Hotel and Proximity Hotel. The exhibition runs through spring 2027.
Special hours on Veterans Day, November 11, are 10 am-5 pm. Admission to the museum is free every day.
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