Upcoming Events
-
Trivia at the Museum April 29, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
-
WCHA Board Meeting May 13, 2025 5:45 pm - 7:15 pm
-
Wall of Fame Ceremony May 20, 2025 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Welcome to the Wayne County Museum’s Official Website. These pages will hopefully prompt you to come visit us and see first-hand the exhibits we have to offer.
We’re open Tuesday – Friday from 11:00 AM until 4:00 PM, and Saturday from 10:00 AM until 5:00 pm.
Our mission is to discover, preserve, document, display, and disseminate historical knowledge and artifacts of Wayne County. We also seek to increase public awareness of the heritage of Wayne County and its environs through exhibits, events, and traditional and digital information sources.
Be sure to check out the Current Exhibits, Upcoming Events, and the History of the Museum. Also, the upstairs, which was the ballroom for the USO, is available for Rental.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors:
Glenn Barwick & Judith McMillen
The Best Foundation
William & Ellen Bland
The Community Foundation
M & J Foundation
Mt. Olive Pickle Company
Paramount Theatre
Parker & Parker, PA
Diane Rawl
Skill Creations, Inc.
David & Emily Weil
Gold Sponsors:
Seymour Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Inc
Silver Sponsors:
Tom & Rosanna Anderson
Benton and Sons Stainless Steel Fabricators
Coates Hearing Clinic
Dillard Goldsboro Alumni & Friends
Doricia Benton
The Borden Foundation
Amaziah Howell, III
The Laughing Owl
Laurie Urland
Wayne County Cruisers
Bronze Sponsors:
Bob & Susan Crenshaw
Dees, Smith, Powell, Jarrett, Dees & Jones, LLP
Elizabeth and Michael Gilbert
Lafayette Greenfield
Joan Hackmann
Mrs. Charles Norwood
Old Dobbs Genealogical Society
Miss Goldsboro Scholarship Association
Nahunta Pork Center
Retro-Lube
Donna Schneider
Shumate-Faulk Funeral Home
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Strickland
Meg Teasley
Union Bank
Wayne Realty
Mr. Jeffrey Westbrook
Marian Westbrook
Connie Whaley
NC CARES: Humanities Relief Grant
We are very grateful to be one of the 59 organizations selected to be awarded an NC CARES: Humanities Relief Grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities. This Humanities Relief grant will enable us to upgrade our platform and share virtual tours of our exhibits for community members who may have risk-factors and therefore feel unsafe visiting us in person. These virtual tours will allow us to continue to serve the community and maintain our public engagement during the pandemic. This NC Cares grant will also provide audiovisual resources so that we may interview elders in our community and preserve their memories and life experiences for posterity. This “Living Library” of interviews will help us to save the knowledge of the subjects that might otherwise be lost and allow us to share them with the public and students. Especially at this time, we feel that learning from the past can only help to aid in shaping the future. The North Carolina Humanities Council is a statewide nonprofit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Through grant-making and public humanities programs, the Council serves as an advocate for lifelong learning and thoughtful dialogue about our shared human experience. The Council operates the North Carolina Center for the Book, an affiliate program of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.
To learn more, please visit:
North Carolina Humanities Council: http://www.nchumanities.org/
National Endowment for the Humanities: https://www.neh.gov/
