UPDATE: Due to delays in renovations, the Avery Research Center will remain closed to the public and staff until further notice. However, to see what we are doing during this time, like us on Facebook and review our Avery Messenger newsletters online here .

The Avery Research Center will be reopening to the public in January 2020! On Monday, January 6, 2020, the Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club Reading Room will be open to researchers by appointment only. The operational hours are 10:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Last call for research items will be 4:00 p.m. […]

The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture was scheduled to be closed from February 2017 to October 2017 for renovations to improve the environmental conditions of the building so we could continue to be good stewards of the collections we house. However, due to construction delays the renovation has to be postponed […]

    The Medical University of South Carolina and the College of Charleston’s Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture invite you to attend the Ernest Everett Just Prize Lecture on Monday, April 17, 2017, at 5:00 p.m. The 2016 Ernest Everett Just Prize recipients, Dr. Chandra Jackson of the National Institute of […]

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Avery Research Center is Closing for Renovations February 1st-October 15th, 2017 The College of Charleston’s Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture will be closed to the public February 1st, 2017 through October 15th, 2017, to implement a major improvement project to replace the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems […]