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History BuffGibbes Museum of Art
Check pricesSee American art tied to Charleston and the South inside a 1905 Beaux Arts gallery on Meeting Street in the historic district.
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Old Slave Mart Museum
Downtown Charleston museum in part of a former antebellum slave auction building, focused on the domestic slave trade.
6 Chalmers Street, Charleston, SC · Charleston, SC
About Old Slave Mart Museum
The museum occupies part of the last major slave market in Charleston and is run by the city. Founded in 1938, it claims to be the city's oldest museum of African American history and the first US museum devoted to the history of slavery. Its exhibits tell the story of the domestic slave trade. The building itself dates to 1859 and is believed to be the last surviving slave auction facility in South Carolina, which gives visitors a direct link to that history. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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