What you get
About The Aiken-Rhett House Museum
The Aiken-Rhett House Museum is preserved as-found and frozen in time, offering a portrait of urban life in antebellum Charleston. Visitors can explore the house, its surviving furnishings, and outbuildings including a kitchen, laundry, carriage block, and original quarters for enslaved people. The dependency buildings survive virtually untouched since the 1850s, allowing visitors to comprehend the realities of enslaved Africans. The Art Gallery, the only restored room, showcases paintings and sculptures from the Aiken family's European Grand Tour.
On the coast
Serving Charleston, SC
The Aiken-Rhett House Museum is preserved as-found and frozen in time, offering a portrait of urban life in antebellum Charleston. Visitors can explore the house, its surviving furnishings, and outbuildings including a kitchen, laundry, carriage block, and original quarters for enslaved people. The dependency buildings survive virtually untouched since the 1850s, allowing visitors to comprehend the realities of enslaved Africans. The Art Gallery, the only restored room, showcases paintings and sculptures from the Aiken family's European Grand Tour.