Permanent Exhibits
The Delma & Beverly Presley Gallery
Uncharted Worlds: The Natural History of Georgia鈥檚 Coastal Plain
This exhibit transports you through millions of years of dramatic changes to Georgia鈥檚 landscape, from an ancient ocean with mosasaurs prowling the seas to forests and prairies with mastodons and mammoths, to the arrival of the first humans, and finally to the coastal plain we know today. Come face-to-face with a mosasaur, Tylosaurus proriger, a 78 million-year-old, 26 foot-long marine reptile, and Georgiacetus vogtlensis, a 41 million-year-old whale, the most primitive whale fossil discovered in North America. You will discover stories of giant sharks, ice age creatures, and research at Gray鈥檚 Reef National Marine Sanctuary. Young visitors can 鈥渂e a paleontologist鈥� and explore the mosasaur inside and out.
The Jack & Addie D. Averitt Gallery
Charted Worlds: The Cultural History of Georgia鈥檚 Coastal Plain
As soon as the first humans reached the Coastal Plain approximately 13,000 years ago, they began to adapt to the unique environment, explore its resources and chart paths to create a home. This exhibit highlights important stories of the interactions between cultures and environment that created the distinct traditions and heritage of Georgia鈥檚 Coastal Plain. Explore an interactive timeline of regional Native American projectile points and pottery, traditional watercraft (including a dugout canoe and Ogeechee River boat), a rare antebellum cotton gin and turpentining artifacts. These artifacts and more highlight stories of a region defined by agriculture; the brutal system of slavery that long supported it; and the contributions to American art, craft, work, and leisure of the people who transformed it.
Exhibits Around Campus & Around Town
Museum on Main
The Museum on Main hosts free annual changing exhibits on the history and culture of Bulloch County and South Georgia developed by graduate students in the Public History Program. Located at the Statesboro Convention and Visitors Bureau at 222 S. Main Street in Statesboro. For hours, call (912) 259-9555.
Nessmith-Lane Center on the Statesboro Campus
Trace the historical transformation of 糖心Vlog from its founding in 1906 through more than a century of struggle and triumph. This free exhibit is located at the Nessmith-Lane Center on the Statesboro Campus at 847 Plant Drive. For hours, call 912-478-5555.