Museum on Main Street – Wake Forest Historical Museum

Hometown Teams Has Come and Gone!

April 17, 2015November 3, 2015 wakeforestmuseum No comments

UPDATE: Hometown Teams completed its very successful run on May 31, 2015. The next day it was packed into crates by museum staff and shipped to […]

Exhibits

Calling All Groups, Clubs, Classes… to Hometown Teams!

February 19, 2015November 3, 2015 wakeforestmuseum No comments

This is a moment of unprecedented excitement for the Wake Forest Historical Museum! We are preparing to launch the run of Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape […]

Exhibits

Hometown Teams – A Traveling Exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution

February 7, 2015November 3, 2015 wakeforestmuseum No comments

Did you know Wake Forest College students traveled to Argentina in 1951 to play baseball in the first ever Pan American Games? This is just one […]

Exhibits

The DuBois School Athletic Program – In Celebration of Black History Month

February 7, 2015April 23, 2019 wakeforestmuseum 5 comments

To mark Black History Month, the museum is sharing a rare collection of images from the DuBois School. By the time these photographs were taken in […]

Northeast Community

Bill Dye, Ed Bradley, Gene Pambianchi, Jim Garry, Tom Palmer

The 1949 Dixie Bowl

September 26, 2014November 12, 2020 wakeforestmuseum 2 comments

Some amazing artifacts that just arrived at the museum seem to have virtually time-traveled straight from a mid-century Dixie Bowl match-up between the Demon Deacons and […]