Levine Museum of the New South

The Levine Museum of the New South, is a history museum located in Charlotte, North Carolina whose exhibits focus 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.[1] Founded in 1991 as the Museum of the New South, it was renamed after museum patron and Family Dollar founder Leon Levine in 2001.[2]

Levine Museum of the New South

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.[3]

In March 2013, the Charlotte Museum of History announced plans to move its administrative offices to the Levine Museum.[4]

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  Entrance of Levine Museum of the New South
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  Entrance of "Cottonfields to Skyscrapers"
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  Cotton-Machine
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  Model of plantation
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  Welcome-Sign for President Roosevelt
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  Explanation-Sign
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  Model of Bank of America Corporate Center

In 2019, the museum had an exhibit "The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America", prepared in collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative, who created the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.[5]