For the first time ever, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture is coming to South Carolina for the “Save Our African American Treasures Program.”
“A national collections initiative of discovery and preservation, and what that means is we asks local residents to identify and preserve items of historical and/or cultural significance that they can have in their home, that might be tucked away in their attic or their closets or basements, and they come to our program and we have reviewers there who will look at their items and have them learn something about their item and they will go away understanding how to preserve those items,” says museum spokeswoman Esther Washington. [Read more...]
