June 2005: Closed for relocation

The Levine Museum of the New South is a history museum focusing 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.

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.