{"id":383,"date":"2016-03-14T14:11:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/14\/furman-upcountry-history-museum-announce-new-partnership-to-advance-museum-mission\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T13:46:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:46:38","slug":"furman-upcountry-history-museum-announce-new-partnership-to-advance-museum-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-upcountry-history-museum-announce-new-partnership-to-advance-museum-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman, Upcountry History Museum join forces to create new partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Upcountry History Museum opened to the public in 2007.<\/p><\/div>\n

FEBRUARY 28 , 2012
\nby Vince Moore, Media Relations<\/p>\n

GREENVILLE, S.C.\u2014Furman University and the Upcountry History Museum have entered into a new partnership that will unite the intellectual and cultural resources of both institutions to advance the museum\u2019s mission of promoting, presenting and preserving the history of Upcountry South Carolina.<\/p>\n

The agreement, which was finalized on Feb. 1, calls for Furman to assume full responsibility for the operation and management of the museum and its various activities.\u00a0 The museum\u2019s 28-member Board of Directors will retain ownership of the facilities, and assist Furman in membership activities and fundraising.\u00a0 The museum\u2019s seven full-time staff members are now employees of the university.<\/p>\n

The partnership is for an initial three-year term, and is renewable thereafter on an annual basis. The museum name will be \u201cThe Upcountry History Museum –? Furman University.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFurman is very excited about this new partnership with the museum,\u201d said university president Rod Smolla.\u00a0 \u201cIt will give us a significant presence in downtown Greenville and further enhance our engagement with the larger community.\u00a0 It\u2019s also a homecoming for the university since the former Furman women\u2019s campus was located in the Heritage Green area of the museum.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Upcountry history will continue to be the museum\u2019s primary focus, Furman will have the flexibility to offer exhibits, lectures and other programs with a broader historical and\u00a0social significance.\u00a0 The university also expects Furman faculty and students to benefit from and contribute to the new partnership, both in terms of programming and internship opportunities.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of us associated with the museum are tremendously excited about the collaboration with Furman,\u201d said Ken Johnson, the museum\u2019s interim executive director.\u00a0 \u201cThis relationship will offer extraordinary intellectual resources for the museum\u2019s gallery and our ongoing programming, and it will also provide an excellent downtown venue for Furman.\u00a0 I believe the opportunities for both institutions are almost limitless.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Upcountry History Museum, which sits on Heritage Green and promotes the history of the Upcountry\u2019s 15 counties, opened to the public in 2007. \u00a0Its mission is to present and preserve the history of Upcountry South Carolina through education, research and service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FEBRUARY 28 , 2012
\nby Vince Moore, Media Relations<\/p>\n

Furman and the Upcountry History Museum have entered into a new partnership that will unite the intellectual and cultural resources of both institutions to advance the museum\u2019s mission of promoting, presenting and preserving the history of Upcountry South Carolina.\u00a0The agreement, which was finalized on Feb. 1, calls for Furman to assume full responsibility for the operation and management of the museum and its various activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}