Levine Museum of the New South

The Levine Museum of the New South, is a history museum located in Charlotte, North Carolina whose exhibits focus on life in the North Carolina Piedmont after the American Civil War. The museum includes temporary and permanent exhibits on a range of Southern-related topics.[1] Founded in 1991 as the Museum of the New South, it was renamed after museum patron and Family Dollar founder Leon Levine in 2001.[2]

Levine Museum of the New South

The museum's permanent exhibit is called "Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers: Charlotte and the Carolina Piedmont in the New South", and features period displays that reflect regional history. The displays include a one-room tenant farmer's house, a cotton mill and mill house, an African-American hospital, an early Belk department store, and a civil-rights era lunch counter. Changing exhibits focus on local culture, art and history.[3]

In March 2013, the Charlotte Museum of History announced plans to move its administrative offices to the Levine Museum.[4]

  • Entrance of Levine Museum of the New South
  • Entrance of "Cottonfields to Skyscrapers"
  • Cotton-Machine
  • Model of plantation
  • Welcome-Sign for President Roosevelt
  • Explanation-Sign
  • Model of Bank of America Corporate Center

In 2019, the museum had an exhibit "The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America", prepared in collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative, who created the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.[5]

References
  1. An Enigmatic Land of Great Expectations, Edward Rothstein, New York Times, Feb. 12, 2012.
  2. https://www.ncpedia.org/levine-museum-new-south
  3. Archived 2016-10-22 at the Wayback Machine Levine Museum: Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers. From 1865 to today.
  4. Price, Mark (March 9, 2013). "History museum to give up its building: New director will take over the mostly shuttered Charlotte history center". The Charlotte Observer. p. 1B.
  5. Arrowood, Maddy (May 31, 2019). "Exhibit traces legacy of lynching in North Carolina through the stories of victims".


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