Public Programs

Discover the riveting hidden history of Claire McCardell, the most influential fashion designer you’ve never heard of. Join us for an evening with award-winning writer Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson. She will share how fashion innovator Claire McCardell popularized comfort and practicality in women’s wear with zippers, pockets, ballet flats, and more. McCardell’s work reinvented American sportswear […]

Explore the history of Greensboro students’ access to education and discover how to make a difference today. Plus, enjoy pizza and swag, and earn service hours. This program is open to all 7th-12th grade students. Free program. Register to take part! 

Dress up to party like it's the Roaring Twenties Speakeasy Night at the Greensboro History Museum throws it back to when the museum first opened in 1925.  Dance to the sounds of Durham’s Mint Julep Jazz Band. Enjoy signature cocktails and tasty bites from GIA. Play a Prohibition sleuth in our Gate City Mystery game. […]

Drop by the museum to dig into Archaeology Day with fun activities and demonstrations for the whole family. This program is in partnership with the UNC Greensboro's Archaeology Program and Guilford Court House National Military Park.                            

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, 11 am  Little Lions Saturday craft activity, 12:30-1:30 pm  Lifted Voices: Unliving History Tours in the Historic First Presbyterian Cemetery, 1:30-5:30 pm Ghoulash! is an annual festival featuring fall and […]

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 at 1 pm and Santa 2-4:30 pm!

Homeschool students and their families can drop by the museum for historic activities. Plus discover mischievous mice throughout the museum for the Mousetastical Mouse Hunt, and explore the new exhibit GHM100: Treasures.Legacies.Remix.  Free event. No registration is required.

Discover Greensboro’s History through fun activities for Preschool and elementary age children and families! This month we are looking back at historic clothing and beginning our American 250th programming with a tricorn hat craft and historic hat history hunt.

Join us for a film screening of the PBS documentary, The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools, and a conversation with the film’s director, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Douglas Avery Blackmon. Blackmon will discuss his experiences as part of Leland, Mississippi’s first integrated public school class in 1970. The film is a deeply personal depiction of one Southern […]

Celebrate the Year of the Horse with East and Southeast Asian community groups from Greensboro and beyond. Demonstrations, performances, hands-on activities, and more from community organizations. Plus Bao Yeah! and Sister Liu’s Kitchen Food Trucks Hands-on activities and information tables in the GHM lobby all afternoon. Performance schedule: 11:15 am in Mary Norris Preyer Hall inside the museum […]