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Earl Scruggs Center Announces Two Special Exhibits for 2015

We are the Music Makers, January 10, 2015 - May 2, 2015 "We are the Music Makers" exhibition illuminating living southern music cultures and communities. Traveling exhibition commemorates 20th anniversary of…

Special Exhibit – Feast Here Tonight

Feast Here Tonight: Southern Food & Music Traditions Exhibition celebrating the intersections of southern foods and music. Exhibit Dates: May 16, 2015 - January 3, 2016. The Earl Scruggs Center’s…

Special Exhibit – We Are The Music Makers

We are the Music Makers Exhibition illuminating living southern music cultures and communities. Exhibit Dates: January 10, 2015 - May 2, 2015. "We are the Music Makers" exhibition illuminating living southern…

Special Exhibit: The Luthier’s Craft: Instrument Making Traditions in the Blue Ridge and Piedmont

The Earl Scruggs Center is pleased to present The Luthier's Craft: Instrument Making Traditions in the Blue Ridge and Piedmont. Exhibit Dates:  June 28, 2014 - January 3, 2015 Made…

Special Exhibit: Resorts, Healing Waters and Cures

Resorts, Healing Waters and Cures: Drinking Your Way to Better Health. Exhibit Dates: January 14th, 2014 - June 21st, 2014.

The Welcome Gallery

The welcome gallery orients guests to the Center with a map of the American South, What's Happening in the Area, and a 13 minute film. The film provides a conceptual…

In These Hills Gallery

The journey begins here— in the rolling hills and rushing rivers of the North Carolina Piedmont. In These Hills features a state of the art interactive table called Common Threads…

Out of Carolina Gallery

Out of Carolina explores Earl's time in the mills and his transition from the mills to the stage, his early years on the road through the moment he made history…

The Turning Road Gallery

The Turning Road explores continuity and change throughout the region. People had to adapt to the changing times from the destruction of the boll weevil to the decline of the…

The Earl Scruggs Story on UNC TV

Check out the Earl Scruggs Center story told in this exclusive behind-the-scenes video tour from UNC TV’s North Carolina Weekend broadcast.