Named to the National Register of
Historic Places, Reynolda
House Museum of American Art is the former home of tobacco baron
R.J. and Katharine Smith Reynolds.
Built between 1912 and 1917, it exhibits
one of the finest public collections
of American art in the South.
The pieces date from 1755 to present
and include works by Jacob Lawrence,
Jasper Johns, Frederic Church,
Thomas Eakins and Georgia O'Keeffe. Reynolda House
showcases one of America's most
authentic examples of a gracious
country estate of its time.
View period fashions within a display of the Reynolds' collection featuring vintage clothing, accessories and toys belonging to members of the Reynolds family from 1889 to the 1960s.
Nearby Reynolda
Village, once the barn and cottages of the working estate, has been converted to specialty shops and restaurants.
 Southeastern
Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) is housed in a series
of galleries in the 1929 English Tudor-style
home of the late industrialist, James
G. Hanes, and enhanced by an addition.
It presents the finest contemporary art
both regionally and nationally. Exhibits
have featured international photographer
Gordon Parks, as well as photographer
Michael Cunningham, famous for his book, "Crowns: Portraits
of Black Women in Church Hats," a
picture book about African American women
and tradition.
The Museum
of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) is the only museum
dedicated to exhibiting and researching the original decorative
arts of the early South. With "period" rooms and galleries,
MESDA showcases the furniture, paintings, textiles, ceramics and
metalwares made and used in Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Maryland,
Virginia and the Carolinas through 1820.
The Old Salem Toy Museum contains a collection of toys, dolls and miniatures from European and American collections dating from as early as the third century. With more than 1,200 antique toys, it is regarded by collectors as one of the world's most prestigious toy collections.
Wake Forest University Museum of Anthropology's permanent exhibits consist of cultural objects from the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific.
Körner's
Folly, located in nearby Kernersville, is an interior design wonder
of the late 1880s. Artist and designer
Jule Gilmer Körner (KER-ner)
created an eccentric 22-room home that
stands 100 feet high with seven levels.
It is filled with murals and artwork.
It is the home of the first private
little theatre in the country.
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