Grier Heights: Community is Family
This traveling exhibition, produced in collaboration with the Grier Heights Community Center and Grier Heights community residents, highlights over 140 years of community history.
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Past Exhibitions
States of Incarceration
States of Incarceration is created by over 800 people in 18 states, and growing. This exhibition explores the roots of mass incarceration in our own communities—to open national dialogue on what should happen next.
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Duke Endowment at 100
As part of The Duke Endowment’s yearlong centennial celebration, the Endowment is touring a traveling exhibit throughout North Carolina and South Carolina to educate and engage the public about the vision of its founder, James B. Duke, and a century of progress he made possible.
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Climates of Inequality
Climates of Inequality is a participatory public memory project created by students, educators, and community leaders in over 20 cities across the U.S. and around the world. Local teams work together to activate the histories of “frontline” communities: those who have contributed the least to the climate crisis but bear its heaviest burdens.
Find Out MoreMaking Their Mark: Charlotteans Who Shaped the City
Making Their Mark highlights men and women who have influenced the growth of Charlotte’s communities, institutions, and physical spaces throughout its rich history. Explore the stories of Catawba warriors, civil rights activists, educators, artists, leaders in healthcare, and more.
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Charlotte’s Men of Change
Inspired by the Smithsonian’s traveling exhibition, Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth. and curated by Harvey B. Gantt Center and Levine Museum, Charlotte’s Men of Change, honors local Black leaders for their work as businessmen, teachers, political and justice activists, coaches, and visionaries.
Find Out MoreMEN OF CHANGE: Power. Triumph. Truth.
Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth. profiles revolutionary men—including Muhammad Ali, James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Kendrick Lamar—whose journeys have altered the history and culture of the country. Twenty-five contemporary artists were invited to reflect and celebrate the significance of these groundbreaking individuals through their own creative vision.
Find Out MoreIT HAPPENED HERE: LYNCHING AND REMEMBRANCE
It Happened Here builds on the Equal Justice Initiative’s research into the history of lynching across America, situating Mecklenburg County’s two recorded lynchings and the local effort to memorialize the victims within the national conversation.
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COTTON FIELDS TO SKYSCRAPERS
Including more than 1,000 artifacts, images, video clips, music, and oral histories, Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers: Reinventing Charlotte and the Carolina Piedmont in the New South uses Charlotte and its 13 surrounding counties as a case study to illustrate the profound changes in the South since the Civil War.
Find Out MoreBROOKLYN: ONCE A CITY WITHIN A CITY
Levine Museum of the New South goes to Brooklyn, adding this rich historic neighborhood to its current exhibit #HomeCLT: People. Places. Promises – a multilayered exhibit that explores Charlotte’s neighborhoods as they’ve grown and changed over time through Augmented Reality experiences that bring the stories alive.
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ANNE FRANK: A HISTORY FOR TODAY
The international exhibition, Anne Frank: A History for Today, tells the story of Anne Frank against the background of the Holocaust and World War II. The exhibit traces Anne’s family history, their experience in hiding during the war, and the legacy Anne left behind through her diary. Local students trained as docents will facilitate conversations about the lessons of this history and what they mean for us today.
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#HOMECLT: PEOPLE. PLACES. PROMISES.
#HomeCLT is an exhibit series rooted in the stories of Charlotte’s neighborhoods. #HomeCLT aims to show the city in the words of its diverse residents, to reveal the unexpected, to prompt reflection and dialogue, and to inspire civic participation as Charlotte strives to build a more equitable future.
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LUMBEE INDIANS: A PEOPLE AND A PLACE
Lumbee Indians: A People and a Place explores Lumbee people and culture in portraiture
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