Tours

Plan a visit to Charleston’s historic Fireproof Building

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Group Visits

The South Carolina Historical Society offers self-guided ($1/person) and historian-led ($5/person) tours appropriate for all ages and grade levels. Visitors will engage with history spanning all aspects of South Carolina’s past, from the flora and fauna that attracted Indigenous Tribes and European Settlers to the Southeast, to the action of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the rich Gullah-Geechee culture that thrives throughout the state, and more, all while roaming the castle-like passages of Downtown Charleston’s historic Fireproof Building.

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These Walls Talk: An Architectural Tour of the Fireproof Building

Join SCHS’s Education Coordinator, Melina Testin, on Friday afternoons at 2pm for a special 45 minute guided tour of the historic Fireproof Building! Walk in the footsteps of Robert Mills, Charleston native and America’s first born-and-trained architect, along the vaulted passageways and winding staircases of a building that has witnessed nearly two centuries of Charleston history.

Tickets for this tour are $5/person and are available for purchase in-person. Check in at the museum desk; the tour will begin promptly at 2pm from the front courtyard. Tour tickets include access to the galleries of the SCHS Museum, which may be explored independently 10am-4pm.