Greensboro History Museum

Mousetastical Mouse Hunt
2025-12-05 - 2026-01-04 | Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
Discover mischievous mice throughout the museum all December long! But you’ll have to look closely. These clever critters have hidden themselves all around the galleries. See how many you can find and earn a special mouse treat!

Museum Closed-New Year’s Day
2026-01-01
Museum is closed New Year’s Day

Little Lions Saturday
2026-01-17 00:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
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.

Museum Offices Closed- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
2026-01-19

Film screening: "The Harvest" with historian Douglas A. Blackmon
2026-01-29 18:30 - 21:00 | Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
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 town’s painful struggle to integrate its public schools and the continuing repercussions still felt today.
The Harvest follows a coalition of Black and white citizens who worked to create racially integrated public schools in the most unlikely place: a 1960s cotton town in the middle of the Mississippi Delta, the most rigidly segregated area in America. It tells the story of how that first class became possible, then traces the lives of Blackmon and his classmates, teachers and parents through high school graduation in 1982.
Narrated by Blackmon and featuring candid interviews with his fellow pupils and others, the film follows the experiences of Blackmon’s class through school integration, deep friendships and awkward separations, in classrooms and on playgrounds, in plays and athletics, at homecoming and graduation. The film reveals that while many interracial friendships were formed in school, racial divisions often still existed outside the classroom.

This program is in partnership with NC Humanities and the UNC Greensboro Department of History.

Lunar New Year Community Celebration
2026-02-07 11:00 - 16:30 | Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
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!
Check back for more information and updated performance schedule.

What is Lunar New Year anyway?
Here’s what our friends at the Smithsonian have to say:
“Lunar New Year is a celebration of the arrival of spring and the beginning of a new year on the lunisolar calendar. It is the most important holiday in China, and it is also widely celebrated in South Korea, Vietnam, and countries with a significant overseas Chinese population. While the official dates encompassing the holiday vary by culture, many who celebrate the holiday consider it the time of the year to reunite with loved ones. In the Chinese zodiac, 2025 is the Year of the (Wood) Snake. The celebrations begin with New Year’s Eve on January 28 and last for 15 days, concluding with the Lantern Festival on February 12. Different regions across Asia celebrate Lunar New year in many ways and may follow a different zodiac. ” Find out more…

Landscapes of Freedom: New Garden Neighborhoods Through the Centuries
2026-02-23 18:00 - 19:30 | Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
By 1776, the New Garden area was well known as an early Quaker settlement. Over continuing generations, the community was a hub for worship, education, and abolitionism. Additional families, including African American families seeking a safe place to live and work, established themselves post-Civil War. Learn what the historical records and family stories tell us about those who formed these communities and the bonds that have connected them across generations and centuries
No registration needed. For more information, contact archives@guilford.edu.

The Landscapes of Freedom program series is in partnership with Guilford College. This project is supported through a grant from America 250 NC, a program of the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and is the first of three related programs held at Greensboro sites in Spring 2026.

Lifted Voices: Black History, Little Lions & More!
2026-02-28 11:00 - 16:00 | Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
Drop by the museum to explore the stories of African American history makers.
Black Patriots at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse
11 am in the Mary Lynn Richardson Lecture Hall
Join us for a short presentation with Historian Dr. Scott Culclasure and Descendant Sage Chioma as they explore the stories of Black Patriots from the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
Little Lions Saturday
11:30 am-12:30 pm in the Lobby
Discover Black Patriots with a fun activity for pre-k to 3rd graders & families.
Lifted Voices: Black History
1-4 pm in the Museum’s Galleries
Costumed interpreters in the museum galleries share well-known and little-known stories of African Americans in Greensboro. Featuring Black Patriot John Gibson, Revolutionary War widow Miley Caper, and many more.
Lifted Voices is a series of living history programs that bring to life people and stories from Greensboro’s past.

Little Lions Saturday: Revolutionary Ladies
2026-03-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
March is Women’s History Month! Bring your Little Lions to the museum for snacks, crafts and fun with some of Greensboro’s Revolutionary Ladies. Take part in fun activity with costume interpreters for pre-K to 3rd graders and their families.
Then explore the museum galleries to hear stories of Greensboro women from costumed interpreters with Lifted Voices: Women’s History from 1-4 pm.

Lifted Voices: Women's History
2026-03-21 13:00 - 16:00 | Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
Hear about Greensboro women’s successes and struggles from costumed interpreters in the museum galleries.
Lifted Voices is a series of living history events that bring to life people and stories from Greensboro’s past. This is a free, family-friendly program. Drop by and walk around the museum to experience history in first person.
Families with pre-K to elementary school kids make sure to drop by early at 12 pm for Little Lions Saturday: Revolutionary Ladies.

Flackback 70s
2026-07-11 11:00 - 16:30 | Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
Greensboro History Museum’s Flashback family fun series highlights decades past for our city and beyond. Recent Flashbacks have explored the history, music, culture, and curiosities of the 1920s, 1940s, and 1950s. This year we’re crossing centuries by looking back at the decades of the 1770s, 1870s and 1970s as our nation celebrates major milestones.
Check back to learn more!

2025 Wicker Endowment Lecture with Kathleen DuVal
2026-08-31 18:00 - 19:30 | Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC, 27401, United States
Join us for an evening with Pulitzer Prize Winner Kathleen DuVal as we explore her book Native Nations: A Millennium in North America.
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 Give Me Liberty! A history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she has written for The Atlantic, Time magazine, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and she appeared in the recent Ken Burns film The American Revolution. She grew up in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and now lives in Durham, North Carolina.

About the Endowment

Ruth Perkins Wicker created the John Floy Wicker Endowment Fund in memory of her husband in 1995. Architect John Wicker helped design and build many of Greensboro’s most memorable structures, from Friendly Shopping Center to Page High School. He also had a lifelong interest in history, and the endowment in his name has supported nearly 20 free public programs at the museum, including talks by distinguished scholars including Malinda Maynor Lowery, John Shelton Reed, Lynn Dumenil, Charles Reagan Wilson, and Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson.
