Lucie Greever Gallery
The Lucie Greever Gallery is our main exhibition gallery, and is located within the Higginbotham Museum Center.
The gallery houses twelve permanent exhibits and one changing exhibition space.
Each exhibit gallery focuses on a different aspect of the history of Southwest Virginia and Appalachia. Geological specimens, such as coal, salt, and fossils, along with a mastadon tusk and molars, and examples of local wildlife begin the story of the area. The first people to inhabit this land were Native Americans who constructed a palisaded village on this site during the 1500s. A model of the village and an educational replica of a wigwam are found in this gallery, in addition to archaeological artifacts found on site during an archaeological dig that took place during the 1970s. The arrival of the first white settlers, known as "long hunters", arrived in the early 18th century to hunt on the frontier. From these first pioneers, the gallery exhibits follow the lives of the people of Southwest Virginia through the struggles of war, the practices farming and timbering, and the discovery of coal during the 19th century. The last two exhibit galleries feature the decorative arts and focus on textiles and furnishings made in Southwest Virginia and Appalachia.
Currently on exhibit in the changing gallery:
Tazewell County Public Library
Temporary Children’s Library
Local Tazewell county residents will likely be familiar with the structural challenges that have beset the Tazewell branch library in recent years. The library is actively moving toward making the necessary repairs to the building and hopes to re-open soon. In the meantime, the museum has partnered with our friends at Tazewell County Public Library to convert the changing gallery into a temporary children’s library.
We are thrilled to be able to offer this space to our friends at the library, who have always been such wonderful supporters of the museum, and give them a home while we all eagerly anticipate the completion of building repairs in Tazewell.
THE TEMPORARY CHILDREN’S LIBRARY IS OPEN
TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 10AM - 5PM.
