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Mace Brown Museum of Natural History

Mace Brown Museum of Natural History, a museum in South Carolina
Mace Brown Museum of Natural History, a museum in South CarolinaAkrasia25 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mace Brown Museum of Natural History, a museum in South Carolina
Akrasia25 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mace Brown Museum of Natural History, a museum in South Carolina
Akrasia25 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mace Brown Museum of Natural History, a museum in South Carolina
Akrasia25 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mace Brown Museum of Natural History, a museum in South Carolina
Akrasia25 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Mace Brown Museum of Natural History is a museum in South Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 3 m. Persimmon Hill stands 18 m to the north-northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Rivers Green, a park 0.1 miles away. Fort Johnson Road Scenic Highway passes 3.2 miles off. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.

About

The story

The Mace Brown Museum of Natural History is a public natural history museum situated on the campus of The College of Charleston, a public liberal arts college in Charleston, South Carolina. With a collection of over 30,000 vertebrate and invertebrate fossils, the museum focuses on the paleontology of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Admission to the museum is free, and donations are welcome. The museum has the holotype specimens of Coronodon, Cotylocara, and Inermorostrum, as well as the reference specimen of Ankylorhiza tiedemani

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Wikidata Q107463411, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
College of Charleston
Fee
No
Step-free access
Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates32.78483, -79.93964

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Rivers Green: 0.1 mi
  • Bell Tower Courtyard: 0.1 mi
  • Cistern Yard: 0.2 mi
  • Barnet Courtyard: 0.2 mi
  • Marion Square: 0.3 mi
Historic sites
Attractions
Artworks: 43
Museums: 30
Gardens: 17
Beaches: 7
  • Sunrise Park Beach: 2.5 mi
  • Grice Beach: 3.5 mi
  • Grice Beach: 3.6 mi
  • Cummings Point: 5.1 mi
  • Capers Island Boneyard: 15.1 mi
Peaks: 3
  • Persimmon Hill: 18.6 mi
  • Raven Hill: 18.6 mi
  • Rosom Hill: 23.3 mi
Cliffs: 2
Nature reserves: 2
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Mace Brown Museum of Natural History. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Persimmon HillNNW 335°18 m18.6 mi
Rosom HillWNW 299°15 m23.3 mi
Raven HillWNW 289°5 m18.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2418:5919:32
June solstice06:1319:5520:32
September equinox07:0918:4619:18
December solstice07:1916:4117:18

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Sep–Jun.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F515359667479828178696054
Precip in2.62.63.03.02.64.85.16.15.24.12.32.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dwtn Charleston, 1 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element node/4098841643

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