Summer of Freedom
Join us this summer for guided tours, hands-on workshops and activities, and celebration of our nation’s 250th birthday!
Hands-On Workshops and Activities
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Learn some new techniques for using your smartphone to capture great summer photos – and test them out on the summer blooms and produce in our Gardens!
Get your hands on our pottery! Learn about the pottery techniques that put Salem potters on the map. Plus, take home your very own earthenware tart dish!
Schoolgirls in Moravian towns learned botany skills through natural history and still-life painting. Explore the art and botanical work of notable Moravian women in the 1800s.
Join us for a special tour and lecture on building your own pollinator garden. Finish the three-part series with a packet of seeds – a mix of nectar flowers and host plants native to the Southeast for you to plant at home and attract butterflies to your own garden!
July 4 | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Did you know that one of the first Independence Day Celebrations in North Carolina was held right here in Salem?
Come celebrate our nation’s 250th – the way we have since 1783.
Join us this Fourth of July for a day full of hands-on activities, historic demonstrations, and fun for all ages!
All activities are INCLUDED with standard admission ticket.
Live Music
Costumed Moravian Brass Band
11:00 AM | Salem Square
Appalachian Strings Dulcimer Performance
1:00 PM | Single Brothers’ House
Guilford Courthouse Fife & Drum Corps
2:00 PM | Salem Square
Moramus Chorale: Psalm of Joy
3:00 PM | Visitor Center
Family Fun Activities
Bucket Brigade Fire Drill
10:30 AM, 12:00 PM, 1:30 PM | Salem Square
Historical Games
All-day | Boys’ School
Guided Tours
Revolutionary War Artifacts Gallery Tour
10:00 AM & 1:30 PM | Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts
Seeds of the States: Colonial Foodways Lecture
11:00 AM & 1:00 PM | Garden Education Center
Colonial Gardens Guided Tour
12:00 PM & 2:00 PM | Garden Education Center
Guided Tour of Revolutionary War Salem
12:30 PM | Salem Square
Historic Demonstrations
Reading of the Declaration of Independence
11:30 AM & 2:30 PM | Salem Square
1776 Militia Encampment
All-day | Tavern Meadow
Historic Firearms Demonstration
All-day | Tavern Meadow
Making Historical Summer Frozen Treats
All-day | John Vogler House
Guided Tours
All of these tours are INCLUDED with your standard admission ticket, so click to learn more!
Join us for a series of concerts celebrating the remarkable 250-year influence of Moravian music on the American sound. Concert admission is INCLUDED with your standard daily admission ticket, or individual concert tickets may be purchased online or at the door for $10.
All funds go to support Old Salem Museums and Gardens.
