Current Programs and Exhibits
On view April – September 2024
The History of Hope Part II: 1930’s – 1950’s at the Seymour Center’s Pop-Up Exhibit
If you missed our History of Hope Part II Exhibit at the Orange County Historical Museum, you can see selected items from the exhibit in our pop-up display at the Seymour Center.
The Robert & Pearl Seymour Center
2551 Homestead Road,
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
919-968-2070
on view March – **
The Business of Franklin Street exhibit at the Orange County Historical Museum
Serving as the front door to the University of North Carolina since its beginnings, Franklin Street is legendary for gamedays & celebrations, to work, worship, eat, stroll, protest, parade, and party.
Join us in a walk through the past, down Franklin Street in 1977, almost 50 years ago. Stroll by an authentic streetscape, created from storefront photos taken at the time by the Chapel Hill Historical Society. This exhibit aims to spark memories, engage & connect you to our local history and bring understanding and appreciation of the shared treasure that is Franklin Street.
Orange County Historical Museum
201 N. Churton Street,
Hillsborough, NC 27278
919-732-2201
Upcoming Programs
March 22, 2025
Join us on March 22, 2025, at 2 PM at the Seymour Senior Center Auditorium for “Maps as Storytellers” – a presentation by Fowota Mortoo, PhD student in geography at UNC. She has created a 12-square-foot map of campus layered with images of the people who built the buildings, focusing on four Black Chapel Hill families – Barbee, Blacknell, Jones, and Johnson. Mortoo saw an opportunity to unsettle traditional mapping practices while highlighting the stories of the Black individuals who helped design and construct the University’s buildings, rock walls, and brick pathways.
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