On View at the Museum of York County

Changing Exhibits:

Know Your Nature

An interactive, nature-themed exhibit. Packed with fun, hands-on activities, the exhibit highlights ways for kids and families to discover, appreciate, and experience the natural world around us. Learning is an adventure as you explore the wildlife of the Carolina Piedmont – climb a rock outcropping and explore the hidden nooks and crannies of trees, rocks, and streams.

Nature Nook Gallery featuring Endless Trail

This exhibit features the natural settings of the Carolina Piedmont and beyond, through Mike Hammer’s photography, capturing the uniquely beautiful moments of each season.

Vernon Grant Gallery featuring By the Light of the Moon

Vernon Grant (1902-1990) was a prolific commercial illustrator who spent the latter half of his life in Rock Hill, South Carolina.  In his characteristically imaginative or dream-like scenes, Grant often set the mood and enhanced his designs by featuring the moon or stars in the background.  Always an exaggerated and abstracted full moon at the height of its influence, this symbol of mystery and the subconscious plays a powerful supporting role in these original gauche paintings and prints.

Permanent Exhibits:

Naturalist Center

The only Smithsonian-styled education center in South Carolina, with more than 2,400 specimens at your fingertips, will guide your learning adventures from the Piedmont and across the globe. 

Ice Age Carolinas: Exploring Our Pleistocene Past

Experience a journey back in time to encounter the strange, gigantic, fierce, and fantastic beasts that once roamed the Carolinas! Featuring life-sized models, taxidermy mounts, diorama and habitat settings, fossils, interactives, and interpretive displays, Ice Age Carolinas portrays the Carolinas’ prehistoric landscapes and wildlife during the Pleistocene Epoch from 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago. See, touch, and learn about fossils and the fossil sites in South Carolina that helped paleontologists piece together this fascinating story.

Carolina Piedmont Halls Landscapes and Lifeways: The Carolina Piedmont 600 Years Ago and Today

Spy on the creatures that only come out at night.  Compare the present landscape with the Piedmont of the 1400s, before European exploration and settlement – when bison roamed around the river’s edge and humans fashioned tools of wood and stone.

Tot Town

Based on the imaginative artwork of nationally-known illustrator and long-time Rock Hill resident Vernon Grant, a playful learning space awaits our youngest visitors in Tot Town!