Upcoming Events and Exhibits
EXHIBITS
ON MY HONOR: 100 YEARS of SCOUTING opens Sunday June 6 at 1 pm
A look at one hundred years of the Boy Scouting Program in Rowan County.
LOCAL ARCHITECTURE: OUR DOWNHOME STYLE opens Sunday
September 19 at 1 pm
Exhibit will feature local historic homes in Salisbury and Rowan through architectural elements and visuals.
COOKING BY THE BOOK also opens on Sunday, September 19 at 1 pm
Cookbooks and related culinary artifacts will be on display.
EVENTS
Colonial Spring Frolic Saturday, April 10, 10 – 4, at the 1766 Old Stone House in Granite Quarry Adults $4, Students $2.00
(Tours of the house with guides in period costumes, crafts, including dying Easter eggs with natural dyes, musket firing, woodworking, weaving, spinning, tatting, candle making, open fire cooking and tastings, children’s games, creek campsite and more.)
GermanFEST: Saturday, September 25 at the 1766 Old Stone House
GERMANFEST, a celebration of Rowan’s early citizens in eastern Rowan County. This event, to be held from 5 pm until 9 pm, on the grounds of Rowan’s only surviving colonial home: the 1766 Old Stone House, will feature an evening of German food, live music, and lifestyle demonstrations of the colonial period. Tours of the house will be offered. Guests can walk the trail down to the creek where the Braun family had cleared an area for bathing and for their laundry. The family cemetery will be open. Museum staffers and volunteers in period clothing will be demonstrating open fire cooking, basketry, late summer chores, candle making and woodcarving. A full meal of German fare will be served, along with beer and wine. And guests who speak German can converse with our German staffer. Ticketed event and reservations required.
57th Annual Antiques Show, November 12 & 13, Civic Center
Fri 10 – 8, Sat 10 – 5
The 57th Salisbury Antiques Show 2010 will be Nov. 12th, 10:00 a m to 8:00 p m and Nov. 13 th, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm at the Civic Center at 315 Boundary St. Salisbury, N.C. ( One block off I-85 at Salisbury exit) Food is available and the show benefits Museum & it’s historic sites. Considered the longest running annual antique show in North Carolina since 1953, and undoubtedly one of the finest. Shop for fine estate furniture, porcelains, jewelry, art, oriental rugs, linens and Civil War items from 20 plus dealers. Preview Party on November 11th. For more information contact the Rowan rowanmuseum@carolina.rr.com or 704-633-5946
Annual Gingerbread House Workshop, Sun, Dec. 5 1- 4
This event will be held Sunday, December 5, 2010 from 1-4 pm in the Messinger Room of the Museum. The cost includes….per child (price includes attached adult), : decorating a gingerbread house, photo with Santa, tours of the Museum and refreshments.
The Museum is located at 202 North Main Street in downtown Salisbury.
For more information, call the Rowan Museum at 704-633-5946 or email at rowanmuseum@carolina.rr.com , and to schedule your arrival time of 1, 2 or 3 pm. Credit Cards are accepted.
Old Christmas at the 1766 Old Stone House, Sat & Sun, Jan 1 & 2
Sat 10 – 4, Sun 12 – 4
The Rowan Museum, Inc. is sponsoring its 26th annual German Christmas Celebration at the Old Stone House (1766) on Stone House Road in Granite Quarry on Saturday and Sunday, January 1 & 2, 2011, 10 am – 4 pm Saturday, and Noon – 4 pm on Sunday.
The house is closed during November through March, but will open for the holiday celebration the weekend just following Christmas. The Old Stone House will be decorated as it would have been during pre-Revolutionary days…very simply with natural greenery, dried flowers, herbs, fruits and berries.
Tours of the historic house and the enhancement of a colonial family’s Christmas celebration in Rowan County will highlight the weekend. Guides in period costumes will be on site, and guests will enjoy learning about customs and participating in crafts, musket firing, woodworking (benches, bowls & spoons), weaving, candle making, open fire cooking with lots of samples, music, children’s games, blacksmithing, and much more.
Holly sprigs will be available for all to toss into the fire to burn their troubles away for the year, looking forward to a new year.
Admission to the celebration is $4.00 for adults and $2.00 for students. For more information, call the Rowan Museum at 704-633-5946, or email rowanmuseum@carolina.rr.com.
The house is located one half mile down Old Stone House Road off Highway 52 in Granite Quarry in eastern Rowan County, just several miles off I-85.
Mardis Gra Evening Fundraiser: Saturday, March 5, 2011 at the Museum Details forthcoming!