Sumter Museum explores historical experiences through programs and exhibits that allow all of us to inform and shape our future. The Museum has grown over the years from its origins in the Williams-Brice house to comprise the Martha Brice Gardens, Carolina Backcountry Homestead, the Heritage Education Center with McKenzie Hall as well as the new, award-winning Temple Sinai Jewish History Center.

The most recent addition to the Museum, the Temple Sinai Jewish History Center, tells the story of Sumter's Jewish community and its place in the larger story of the Jewish diaspora in America. The Center features a moving permanent Holocaust exhibition and Ackerman Hall, a multi-use space for traveling exhibitions and cultural events, as well as Temple Sinai itself, one of the nation's oldest Reform congregations.

The other three components of the Sumter Museum are the historic Williams-Brice House dating to 1916, the modern Heritage Education Center, and the Carolina Backcountry Homestead, an assemblage of late 18th to early 19th century structures relocated from around the area that allow visitors to get a feel for what a one family farm may have looked like in this part of SC around 1750-1850.

Through workshops, book signings, lectures, family programs, community involvement, and hands-on history events, the Sumter Museum provides an engaging educational experience to visitors of all ages.

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