collections

South Carolina State Museum Curators

Michelle Baker
Chief Registrar
(803) 898-4954
michelle.baker@scmuseum.org
Manages artifacts and specimens that the museum owns or has on loan. Contact if information is needed regarding  previous loans/donations to the museum; artifacts on exhibit; requests for conservation; general questions about storing artifacts; donation of objections, if curators are not here.

 

Tom Falvey
Curator of Science & Technology & Director of Outreach
(803) 898-4944
tom.falvey@scmuseum.org
Responsible for science and technology as well as Windows to New Worlds-related assignments.

 

Fritz Hamer, Ph.D.
Chief Curator of History
(803) 898-4942
 Fritz.hamer@scmuseum.org
Responsible for militaria, especially WW II and Civil War, sports memorabilia and objects from any time period, and archaeological material, such as arrowheads(points) and pottery.

 

James (Jim) Knight
Director of Collections/Curator of Natural History
(803) 898-4946
Jim.knight@scmuseum.org
Oversees the administration of the collections department staff. Any requests for information regarding fossils, snakes, bugs, rocks, sea shell, birds, environmental issues, etc should be directed to the natural history curator.

 

Paul Matheny
Chief Curator of Art
(803) 898-4941
Paul.matheny@scmuseum.org
Responsible for review of all works of art including fine, folk and other such objects created in South Carolina or made by a native South Carolinian. This includes paintings, prints, photographs, drawings, pottery, quilts, baskets, furniture, sculpture and anything else that is hand-made.

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