Current & Upcoming Events
Please join us at
South County Museum for a
Fundraising Celebration
Saturday, September 13,
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Cocktail hour and explore
the campus until 5 pm. -
Buffet and live craft demonstrations till 6:45 pm
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Seated dessert and live auction in the Lower Barn at 7:00 pm
Tickets $125
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In joining us, you are contributing to the preservation of over 25,000 historic objects and helping us to safeguard and share cultural heritage and traditions through our associated school of craft.
Regretfully, I cannot join, but I would like to support the museum and its mission
39th Annual Folk Art Quilt Show
September 5th-7th
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See beautiful quilts from regional quilters on display in the Metz Exhibition Hall.
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Vote for the People's Choice quilt and be inspired by our community of crafters!
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Don’t miss out on our 39th Annual Quilt Show! It is going to be a great one! Over sixty historic and contemporary quilts will be on display. Visit our pop-up shop with a great selection of fabrics and patterns for sale. Each day at 11am Museum Curator Rebecca Kelly will give a short talk on the history of late 19th-century “Crazy Quilts”. Stop by our demo table to see various sewing techniques and learn about incorporating naturally dyed fabrics into your quilts.
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South County Museum and Ocean House Hotel Present:
Changing Silhouettes of Fashion: Corsets, Crinolines, and Bustles - Oh My!
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 3:30pm in The Seaside Ballroom at Ocean House
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Fashion is often a reflection of an era's social, political, and cultural values, and nowhere is this more evident than in the shifting silhouettes of fashion. Key to the transformation of the female body in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries were the corset, crinoline, and bustle—three crucial garments that dramatically altered shape and, in turn, how women were perceived and how they moved in the world. The magic of well-tailored menswear will be discussed in tandem, as the idea of modifying the body's appearance was not unique to women.
