
South Carolina State Museum Through September 19th
Featuring actual artifacts as well as reproductions to illustrate the lives and times of buccaneers during the heyday of piracy (approximately 1600-1718), the exhibit will thrill those who have always been fascinated by these desperadoes of the bounding main.
The exhibit displays a pirate ship’s bell, rigging hook, cannon balls, pewter plates, buckles, ballast stones, cannon aprons and small vials of gold dust. A concretion tank features mineralized artifacts as they would have appeared when found on the ocean’s floor. See money plundered by pirates, including silver “pieces of eight,” gold doubloons, and Spanish reals (pronounced ray-ahls). Reproduction cannons from pirate ships give guests the feel of being on the deck of a pirate ship.