Levine Museum of the New South

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Levine Museum of the New South

The Levine Museum of the New South is a museum in Charlotte that with the development of the North Carolina Piedmont region before and since the end of the Civil War busy.

Face-to-face exhibition: From cotton fields to skyscrapers (2001-2016)

The exhibition "Cottonfields to Skyscrapers: Reinventing Charlotte and the Carolina Piedmont in the New South" is a main exhibition of the museum on the history of the region. The planning phase for the exhibition began in the mid-1990s. The national historians Dr. David Carlton ( Vanderbilt University ), Dr. David Goldfield ( University of North Carolina at Charlotte ), Dr. Lu Ann Jones ( East Carolina University ) and Dr. Tom Hanchett ( Emory University ). When the museum reopened in 2001, the exhibition was opened. It covers an exhibition area of ​​approx. 750 square meters and offers visitors over 1,000 different exhibits, pictures, video and music sequences. Different environments can be explored, such as the replica of a historic farmhouse or the haptic, audio-visual experience of traditional cotton production.

  • Entrance to the exhibition "Cottonfields to Skyscrapers"

  • Cotton machine

  • Model of a plantation

  • Welcome sign for President Roosevelt

  • Explanatory sign of the exhibition

  • Model of the Bank of America Corporate Center

Exhibition: ¡NUEVOlution! Latin Americans and the New South (09/27/2015– 11/27/2016)

At the end of 2015, the bilingual exhibition “¡NUEVOlution! Latinos and the New South ”(Eng.“ ¡NUEVOlution! Latin American and the New South ”), which can be traced back to a three-year development phase. On around 325 square meters, this explains to what extent Latin American immigrants shape the New South to this day.

Web links

Commons : Levine Museum of the New South  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers , Levine Museum of the New South.
  2. ↑ ¡NUEVOlution! Latinos and the New South , Levine Museum of the New South.

Coordinates: 35 ° 13 ′ 41.5 ″  N , 80 ° 50 ′ 19.4 ″  W.