Stop by and visit our Museum Store, located just inside the front lobby. We carry a wide selection of books related to Charlotte, the region and our exhibits - from history to travel to southern cuisine. We also carry other items such jewelry, accessories, home accents, and Charlotte souvenir items.

Open Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m; Sunday 12 - 5 p.m. Visitors are always welcome to visit the store without paying Museum admission.

Don't forget - Museum members receive a 10% discount on most merchandise!


Just in for the holidays!
Pick up a copy of Inspired Cooking the new cookbook from First Presbyterian Church. Published in October and featured in The Charlotte Observer and Charlotte magazine, it makes a great gift for friends or just for yourself!

Choose from a selection of ornaments handmade in the South. Tobacco twine and cotton boll angel ornaments add a southern touch to any tree.


Tom's Top 10 List
We often get asked for reading suggestions or gift ideas, so we asked Levine Museum staff historian Dr. Tom Hanchett for his picks! Below is a list of 10 titles, on topics ranging from barbecue to Brown vs. Board of Education, selected by Dr. Hanchett. All of which you can find in the Museum Store!

• Frye Gaillard, The Dream Long Deferred 3rd ed - former Charlotte Observer star reporter Frye Gaillard investigates the history behind Charlotte's present-day school debates. This new edition takes the story from the Civil Rights era right up to 2006.



• Richard Kluger, Simple Justice - the classic history of the school desegregation case Brown v Board of Education, with emphasis on Rev. J.A. De Laine of South Carolina, who is the subject of the Levine Museum's award-winning Courage exhibit, opening its national tour in Atlanta this January.



• Anthony Harkins, Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon - an interesting new exploration of one of the South's most familiar images - including an entertaining chapter on Snuffy Smith and Li'l Abner which helped shape the Levine Museum's current exhibition Comic Stripped: A Revealing Look at Southern Stereotypes in Cartoons.



• James Goff, Jr., Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel - An Appalachian State professor writes the first history of white Southern gospel singing, music that is not only important in its own right, but also as a bedrock part of rock and roll, bluegrass, and country music.



• Dan Huntley, Lisa Lednicer and Layne Bailey, Extreme BBQ: Smokin' Rigs and 100 Real Good Recipes - this book is just plain fun, and you'll learn a lot about Southern cultural history as well, as long-time York County newspaper reporter Dan Huntley tracks down stories of folks who love to cook pig.



• Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, et al, Like a Family: The Making of A Southern Cotton Mill World - based on extensive oral histories collected in Charlotte and the Carolinas, an in-depth portrait of the people who transformed this part of the South into the nation's main textile manufacturing region.



• Lois Yandle, The Spirit of a Proud People - a loving scrapbook of vintage photos and stories from the "North Charlotte" textile mill village, now being reborn as the NoDa arts district.



• Eleanor Brawley, Families of Abraham - the complete photos and text from the Levine Museum's much-visited 2007 exhibit.



• Ryan Sumner, Historic Photos of Charlotte - a handsomely produced picture book compiled by a former Levine Museum staffer.



• Thomas W. Hanchett, Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class & Urban Development in Charlotte, 1870s-1970s - the surprising story of racial and economic separation, and the rise of Charlotte's neighborhoods.