Cleveland County in Focus: The Photography of Ellis Studio
10/11/22 - 12/31/22
By the middle of the 20th Century, photography had undergone a complete metamorphosis in American culture. The process of taking a photograph had gone from using bulky wooden boxes and dangerous chemicals, to cameras that could fit in your pocket and rolls of film which could be dropped off at the nearest photography studio for…
As guests enter the museum, they are welcomed with our central instrument display in the rotunda. This area showcases the “crown jewels” of the Earl Scruggs Center: instruments belonging to…
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…
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…
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…
