Public Programs

Join us for a night of mystery with mocktails, snacks, games, and friends.

Drop by the museum to explore colonial life with a fun hands-on activity for preschool and elementary age children and their families! Make a colonial silhouette and go on a history hunt. 

Join us for a special evening with local historian and  2022 Voices of a City award winner, Dr. Scott Culclasure as we explore the history of the Children's Home Society of North Carolina with his book The Promise of Family: Children's Home Society of North Carolina.   About the Dortch Endowment: The Dortch Endowment was […]

Join us in the Mary Lynn Richardson Historic Park to celebrate colonial lifestyles and history.  Explore the museum's historic eighteenth and nineteenth century buildings, immerse yourself in a Colonial Mystery game, and learn more about the experiences of early North Carolinians in the Back Country.  Check back for more information! This program is organized and developed by Humanities at Work […]

Experience downtown Greensboro and learn about the history of the Greensboro Jewish community. See historic buildings and monuments, and remember the sites that no longer stand. Listen to stories of downtown and how the Jewish community has lived and contributed to Greensboro over the years through docents and guest speakers. Check back for more information […]

Join us for an evening with historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Kathleen DuVal. Check back for more information! About the Author:  Kathleen DuVal is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Nations: A Millennium in North America as well as Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution and the U.S. history textbook […]

The Greensboro Youth Council’s Ghoulash! Halloween festival is back in LeBauer Park. Free activities with the Museum include: Ghost tales with storyteller Cynthia Moore Brown Little Lions Saturday craft activity Lifted Voices: Unliving History Tours in the Historic First Presbyterian Cemetery Ghoulash! is an annual festival featuring fall and Halloween themed activities led by the […]

Meet President Abraham Lincoln in a one-man show featuring veteran actor Peter Holland.   Check back for more information! 

Join us during and after the Downtown Greensboro Holiday Parade to celebrate the winter season and the launch of the Mousetastical Adventure mouse hunt all around the museum. Plus fun crafts, hot cocoa, and a special visit from Ms. Claus and Santa. Check back for more information!