Exhibitions

Discover early 1900s Greensboro in this hands-on, family-friendly exhibition.

Discover Greensboro’s history through stories of residents past and present.

Closed 7/20/2025 but Virtual Exhibition still accessible below. Explore choices & change at our state’s polls from 1776 to 2010.

Explore some of the newest objects and archival items added to GHM’s collection.

Artifacts, archival photos, and a timeline chronicle of the museum’s current home.

Closes 6/15/2025. Discover five quilts from the museum’s collection and their stories.

Experience the virtual version of the award-winning exhibition on the upheavals of 2020.

Period rooms re-created from an 1867 Italianate house in Greensboro.

Explore the life and work of First Lady Dolley Madison.

Discover rare examples of Civil War weaponry and learn what they tell us about battles, manufacturers, technology, and people.

Discover the miniature world of Interior Designer Otto Zenke.

Closed Nov. 28, 2021. Award-winning exploration of history happening now during a period of pandemic and protest.

Closed Mar. 2020. A traveling exhibition from the National Museum of American History exploring the history of citizen participation, debate, and compromise from the nation’s formation to today.

May 18, 2018 – September 22, 2019 type-WRITE  invites visitors to put fingers to keys and have fun. View typewriters belonging to UNCG pioneer Joanne Smart Drane and to Greensboro […]

Discover how Greensboro experienced the Great War through the eyes of nine.

Discover the stories and traditions of Greensboro natives of Asian heritage.

Closed June 4, 2017. A display of the John and Isabelle Murphy Confederate Firearms Collection and other Civil War artifacts.

Discover how Greensboro history inspired Janet Echelman to create the Where We Met sculpture in LeBauer Park.

Explore how Asian Pacific Americans have shaped and been shaped by the course of our nation’s history.

Explore the history of the Warnersville Community.

Discover the award-winning photography of Photojournalist Jerry Wolford.

Discover 20 objects exploring First Lady Dolley Madison’s connections to Greensboro.

Trace the Journey of New North Carolinians.

May 3, 2012 – January 21, 2013 At least 17 of our nation’s presidents have been to Greensboro, from George Washington to Barack Obama. As you walk through this exhibition, […]

April 3 – September 18, 2011 Greensboro is an ordinary place resounding with extraordinary voices. Hear from Jewish people who have called Greensboro home since childhood. Hear from newcomers who […]