Florence Museum

From its formation, the Florence Museum has made a commitment to the education of our children. Keeping with this tradition, the museum offers opportunities for children to participate in hands-on interactive activities, based on South Carolina State Education Standards.

Ethnographic Arts

Asian Art

The Florence Museum's Ethnographic Arts Collection has been a major point of emphasis since the museum's inception. Artifacts of ceremonial significance, functional items, weapons, tools and vessels from world cultures make this collection representative of the diverse aspects of tribal lifeways and identities.

SC Gallery

This gallery features art and objects from South Carolina's Antebellum period through Reconstruction. Slave-made furnishings are exhibited along with period documents and photographs. These are accompanied by portraits by well known South Carolina artist William Harrison Scarborough. Also featured are prints, etchings and drawings by Elizabeth White, Alfred Hutty and Anna Heyward Taylor which collectively represent the art of the Charleston Renaissance.

Pueblo Pottery

The Pueblo Pottery Collection comprises the first grouping of objects which later became the permanent collection of the Florence Museum. Collected by museum founder, Miss Jane Beverly Evans, the examples range from pre-historic Anasazi wares to works created by master of 20th century Pueblo revival potter, Maria Martinez.

This collection is augmented by Pueblo cultural artifacts such as textiles, jewelry and costumes, all of which offer a glimpse into Southwest Native American craftsmanship and society.

One of the museum's most extensive collections features objects from China, Korea and Japan. The collection includes the Florence Nightingale League Collection of Chinese Art which was purchased in 1940 from Mr. and Mrs. T. J. League, Christian missionaries in China during the early 20th century. Mrs. League was a relative of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. The Florence Nightingale League Collection accompanies the Blackmon Collection of Asian artifacts, as well as items collected by museum founder Jane B. Evans.

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