Events

The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a lecture by Matt McDonough on Saturday, February 22nd, on the Golden Age of Piracy.
Nothing quite captures the American imagination like the Golden Age of Piracy. Seafaring rogues who swashed their buckles, accumulated and squandered a fortune amidst the beautiful turquoise blue waters of the Caribbean. But how much of this depiction is true to history? Were they truly the romantic anti-heroes of yore? Vicious criminal sociopaths? Or something in between? Join Dr. Matthew McDonough as we separate fact from fiction regarding these tyrants of the seas.

The 2020 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Modjeska Simkins: Makin’ a Way Out of No Way. Part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, this film tells the story of South Carolina human and civil rights matriarch, Modjeska Monteith Simkins. This classic Carolina story is a portrait of an […]

The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a lecture by Eric Emerson on Saturday, February 29th, on the history of the South Carolina state flag. South Carolina has had a number of flags over the course of its history, and two have been approved by the General Assembly. The second […]