• NC Folk Festival

    Saturday, September 13, 2025 - Sunday, September 14, 2025

    On Saturday and Sunday come play with GHM at the North Carolina Folk Festival Family Area in the Mary Lynn Richardson Historic Park! You will find all kinds of hands-on activities from the museum and other local cultural partners both days 11 am-6 pm. The museum's historic buildings will be open to tour.  Click here […]

    Greensboro Pride Festival

    Saturday, September 20, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

    Make GHM part of your Greensboro Pride Festival plans. Drop by the museum to explore GHM's new Community Voices Display, “Expressions of Greensboro Pride”  by IMPAQT GSO, and find GHM Education at the Festival's Kids Zone for some fun activities. Find full lineup of festival activities and map at https://www.impaqtgso.org/pride “Expressions of Greensboro Pride” brings together […]

    2025 Belle Meade Society Fall Dinner

    Monday, September 29, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | $45

    The Greensboro History Museum’s Belle Meade Society will have its annual Fall Dinner at the museum on Monday, September 29th. The evening starts at 5:30 pm and includes dinner, wine and a presentation by former museum assistant director and Guilford County Historian, Gayle Hicks Fripp. $45 per person. Please RSVP by Friday, September 19. Purchase […]

  • Greensboro Youth Summit

    Saturday, October 4, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

    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! 

    Speakeasy Night at the Museum

    Friday, October 17, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm | $35

    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. […]

    Archaeology Day

    Saturday, October 18, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Free

    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.                            

    Greensboro Public Library One City, One Book – Films & Conversation

    Tuesday, October 21, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Free

    Enjoy three short films and commentary from best-selling author Laura Carney, filmmaker Curtis Chin, and Zelda Lockhart, author of Trinity at 6:30 pm, Tuesday, October 21, at the Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Ave. Carney, author of this year’s One City, One Book selection, My Father’s List: How Living My Dad’s Dreams Set Me Free, […]

    Ghoulash! Unliving History and More

    Saturday, October 25, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 5:30 pm

    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 […]

  • Behind Locked Doors

    Sunday, November 9, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

    A century in the making, and you get the first look! Join us for a members-only sneak peek of the landmark exhibition, GHM100: Treasures. Legacies. Remix. You'll walk through the doors exactly 100 years after our museum's first day, before the public is invited to experience it on November 11th. Don't miss this historic first […]

    2025 GHM Inc. Annual Dinner

    Monday, November 10, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm | $150

    Join us for an elegant dinner at the O.Henry Hotel and a fascinating talk from guest speaker Richard Kurin, curator and author of The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects. Plus we will present the 2025 Voices of a City Awards. Tickets are $150 per person for GHM Members (guest tickets $175). Click here […]