COLUMBIA

Join Donkey, Cat and Rooster on an exciting adventure as they travel to Bremen Town to prove their worth and earn their fame and fortune! 

An Exhibition.

This family festival features arts and crafts, food vendors, a carnival, entertainment and lots of boiled peanuts.

Every Friday free movies are shown in Finlay Park. Bring your lawn chairs and picnic baskets. Sponsored by Columbia Action Council.

Movie: The Great Debaters

CPL Petitt Cup Playoffs

School readiness initiative provides resources, tips, advice and hands-on activities for parents and children entering kindergarten this fall.  The entire museum will be open and family-friendly ve... more information...

The Museum's family-friendly events offer an evening packed with activites for children, including creative take-home studio art projects led by talented Museum educators, kids' Gallery Backpacks f... more information...

An annual summer concert series performed outdoors by area bands. Tonights performance features Square Roots.

 CALLING ALL STUDENTS! OLD SCHOOL AND NEW SCHOOL!

Elementary through 12th grade and college, including non-traditional students! It's a brand new event designed to help stu... more information...

CPL Petitt Cup Championship Game

The sidewalk sale nestled in the historic Shandon neighborhood showcases Devine Street's unique shopping district. Including more than 50 locally owned shops, boutiques, and furniture stores, offer... more information...

Join a weekend walk-in-tour highlighting museum exhibits.

The Congaree National Park staff and our friends from the USDA Forest Service will gather together to celebrate America's favorite bear's 64th birthday. 

There will be assorted activiti... more information...

See, buy, or trade toy soliders or other military miniatures from various periods of history. Also see a living history presentation by the 20th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment and view ... more information...

Come listen to a diverse lineup of South Carolina's best musicians! Come to the park for a free concert including blues, rock, beach, reggae, jazz, big band, salsa and more! Sponsored by the Columb... more information...

Exhibit focusing on the often overlooked aspects of South Carolinians in WWI, including involvement of African-Americans and women. Learn about warfare technology, aviation, and artillery.  Explore... more information...

This exhibit showcases the significant number of movies produced in South Carolina over the past 100 years.  Explore the complexity of moviemaking while enjoying photographs, movie clips, filmmakin... more information...

This exhibit, marking t... more information...

This exhibition celebrates both the 20th Anniversary of the State Museum's opening and the diversity of South Carolina art.  The first juried art exhibition hosted exclusively by the State... more information...

Our local rivers and waterways include the historic and scenic Congaree River, the cold clear Saluda River with its rapidly changing water levels and three miles of whitewater rapids, the Broad Riv... more information...

See images of the recovery process of a World War II bomber that had been at the bottom of Lake Murray, South Carolina for more than 62 years until it was finally recovered in 2005.  Photograhs, ar... more information...

McKissick Museum will honor the life and work of the late Helen Hill, a Columbia native who was an experimental artist, animator, filmmaker and activist, in an exhibit. Hill was murdered in January... more information...

Bubbles are on the loose again this summer in EdVenture's outdoor exhibit, BubbleLoosa!  Children can become a bubbleologis and explore the shapes, sizes and colors of bubbles.  With our extreme bu... more information...

From bathing suits and beach pails to hotel ballrooms, this exhibit details the early development of the Carolina coast as a summer destination for tourists and South Carolinians.  Visitors will ex... more information...

Our local rivers and waterways include the historic and scenic Congaree River, the cold clear Saluda River with its rapidly changing water levels and three miles of whitewater rapids, the Broad Riv... more information...

The phrase“South Carolina under one roof” takes new meaning in this exhibit celebrating the S.C. State Museummore information...

This five-panel exhibit examines the life of one-time South Carolina resident and United States President Woodrow Wilson.

In conjunction with exhibition Carolina Collects, the work of South Carolina native Constantine Manos is in the Mamie and William Andrew Treadway, Jr. Gallery. The Greek Portfolio represents an imp... more information...

Find out how air moves and influences our environment.  Paint a wall of fluttering "shimmer disks" with a spray of air and race balls to learn the effects of turbulence.  Make discoveries... more information...

Carolina Collects celebrates the spirit of private collectors who have been instrumental in the formation and continued vitality of art collections throughou... more information...

At EdVenture Children's Museum, this photo essay exhibit looks at the issue of obesity through the eyes of amateur photographers who have taken pictures around South Carolina.  This exhibit is a gr... more information...

A phenomenon you have to see to believe. This 2 ½ hour cruise takes you out to historic Bomb Island, where hundreds of thousands of birds (Purple Martins) circle and roost on the largest Purple Mar... more information...

The first in a series at the Gallery at DuPRE showcasing the diversity of the A.R.T. Members, this exhibit includes Artists Round Table Members:  Sam Compton, Keith Tolen, Jeff Weese, Sandra Carr, ... more information...

Discover the primeval forested floodplain that is Congaree National Park.  Experience extraordinarily diverse plant and animal life while walking among the towering trees.  Meet at the Harry Hampto... more information...

Return with us to the thrilling days of yesteryear...This boardwalk hike takes you on a trip back in time to the people and events that shaped the history of the Congaree area.  Discover how this u... more information...

This 4.5 mile hike will take you on the Weston Lake Loop Trail where you will discover the importance of wilderness.  Meet at the Harry Hampton Visitor Center at 1:45 pm. 

Immerse yourself in the magical experience of this undisturbed, old-growth bottomland forest, its giant trees and immense diversity of wildlife.  Meet at the Harry Hampton Visitor Center. 

Southern Traditions showcases the richness and diversity of the Museum’s world-class collection of furniture, ceramics, silver, basketry, sculpture and paintings by... more information...

This exhibit tells the history and captures the spirit of camp meetings through photographs, video and captures the spirit of camp meetings through photographs, bideo and artifacts. Featuring photo... more information...

In 1965, through the generosity of the estate of Bernard Mannes Baruch, the University of South Carolina received an extensive collection of 18th and early 19th century British silver. This collect... more information...

Come look at the changing moon, twinkling stars and glowing planets.  Participants will need to bring lawn chairs or blankets and flashlights with red filters.  Meet at the After Hours parking lot ... more information...

Through the hundreds of specimens available in the library, the Museum visitor can travel the world through minerals. Gold from South Carolina, amethyst from Brazil, malachite from Namibia, fluorit... more information...