Confederate Relic Room

Local News, State

Legislators Agree to Study Moving Confederate Relic Room

ABC Columbia Staff

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Legislators aren’t spending any money next fiscal year to display the Confederate flag sent to a museum last summer as they await an analysis on moving the entire museum to Charleston. A legislative panel negotiating a final spending plan for 2016-17 approved a budget clause that requires an analysis of available museum space in Charleston and…

Politics

House Panel: Move the Museum to House the Confederate Flag

ABC Columbia Staff

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Legislators on a House budget-writing panel say the museum that will house the Confederate flag taken off Statehouse grounds last summer needs to relocate to attract more visitors. Panel members said Wednesday most people don’t know the Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum is “hidden” in the back of the State Museum building. The state’s military…