Events

The 2021 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Chasing the Swamp Fox. This film, part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, details Francis Marion’s partisan campaigns during the American Revolution in South Carolina and paints a mosaic of what life was like in those years and how Marion’s participation led to the birth of modern day guerilla warfare as well as the liberation of our country. The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, January 13th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway. The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2021. For a full list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.

The 2021 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Barbecue & Homecooking: Food That Makes You Smile. This documentary was made to promote folklore and folklife experiences visitors might have in the economically depressed four-counties of the Region III SC National Heritage Corridor. These counties bear primary roots to the beginnings and growth of barbecue in South Carolina. This film explores eateries where the cooks heading up the kitchens or barbecue pits have agrarian family roots and were first taught on wood stoves or by the side of heralded barbecue pit-men. They maintain today’s recipes with ingredients and cooking methods learned at the side of mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles or grandparents in these farming communities. Music by South Carolina roots musicians moves the viewer along as they hit the road with filmmaker Stan Woodward and the folklorist from McKissick Museum as they ‘root-out’ these sites.

Join us on January 23rd between 9 AM and 12 PM at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm to celebrate the pig! Winter was the time of year for curing pork on the farm and a season when the family was dependent on home preserved foods during the cold winter months.

Demonstrations by our staff and volunteers will include the carving and preparation of pork, salting and curing in the smokehouse, making headcheese, making sausage, preparing lard, making lye soap, cooking on a wood burning stove, and more! The L. W. Paul Living History Farm is located at 2279 Harris Short Cut Road in Conway, South Carolina.

The 2021 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with a showing of Animal Planet’s hit show, Tanked. The episode, Pete Rose Scores a Tank, features the construction and installation of the Horry County Museum’s 2,500 gallon freshwater aquarium. Come and enjoy this lively episode and see how this magnificent aquarium became part of the Horry County Museum.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, January 27th at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2021. For a full list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.

Join us for free 30 minute Saturday activities at the Museum! Parents can sign children up for a half hour session between 9 AM-11 AM. Group sizes will be limited to 5 children per session to help ensure social distancing. On January 30th, children will learn about the different types of fossils that can be found in Horry County and will make an imprint fossil to take home!

The Horry County Museum presents a lecture by Donald Kirkpatrick at 1:00 PM on January 30th on vertebrate fossils of the Upper Cretaceous (Age of Dinosaurs) Period in the Pee Dee. Featuring fossils from his own collection, Mr. Kirkpatrick will discuss what areas he looks for fossils in, and the types that […]

The 2021 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with the SCETV documentary, Charlie’s Place. This film tells the story of an African American nightclub owned by Charlie Fitzgerald in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Despite the fact that much of the South was segregated during the time, both blacks and whites were welcomed into the club. This drew unwanted attention from groups like the KKK, who attacked Charlie’s Place one night in 1950.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, February 3rd, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2021. For a full list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.

Visitors of all ages are invited to join us Saturday, February 6th from 9 AM-12 PM at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm for Woodcutting Day. Stop by to see how wood was gathered, cut and used throughout the family farm and try your hand at using our two man cross cut saw. We’ll also demonstrate the variety of foods that would have been prepared outside for the woodcutting crew!
The L.W. Paul Living History Farm is open Tuesday-Saturday 9 AM-4 PM and teaches the history of the Horry County farm family from 1900-1955. The farm is free and open to the public and is located at the corner of Hwy 701 North and Harris Short Cut Road in Conway, SC. For more information, call the L. W. Paul Living History Farm at 843-915-5321 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.
For a full list of programs and events at the Horry County Museum and L.W. Paul Living History Farm, visit www.horrycountymuseum.org.