Southern Trip, 2025 | Material Matters

Southern Trip, 2025

WPAMC student Parker Thompson in front of one of the buildings at the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum and Historic Site.

School Time with Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown

A room with a hearth and a work table with needlework supplies laid out on it. Also in the room are kitchen supplies.

Exploring Trade and Race at Old Salem

A miniature white house with a porch sitting on a raised platform in a garden.

Honey, I Shrunk the House: How Miniatures of Historic House Museums Can Improve the Visitor Experience

A museum gallery in a basement. A screen on the right reads "Stories of the Enslaved." Shadows of a man with an extended hand, a woman with her arm raised, and a man reading are cast on the wall.

“We Need a New History”: Descendants’ Voices as Vital Sources in Interpreting Slavery

Three WPAMC students look at framed black-and-white photographs on a gallery wall.

Everyday Black Photography at the International African American Museum

A mummy in a glass display case inside a museum gallery.

Medicine, Historical Empathy, and a Mummy at the Charleston Museum

A plastic Ziploc bag filled with vegetation resting on top of a book open to a photo of trees.

The Beauty and Troubling Legacies of Plants: A Southern Field Study

A blue eye and eyebrow painted on a flat rectangular piece of ivory with one curved end. "SATURDAY" is printed on the rectangular end of the sheet.

Elias Alexander Vogler’s Anatomical Studies on Ivory: Expanding the Miniature

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