Tryon tours new museum/visitor center
Published 5:21pm Thursday, December 26, 2013
Tryon council, staff and residents toured what will soon be the town’s new museum and visitor center, located in the front of Tryon Town Hall.
Visitors to the Tryon Museum, which will open in 2014 (photos by Leah Justice).
The tour was done with refreshments before the council’s Dec. 17 meeting.
The official opening of the museum and visitor center, which will also house a gift shop will be announced sometime in 2014. A committee is waiting on responses from grant requests in order to obtain start-up funding. Volunteers will operate the museum/visitor center, including a gift shop that will carry local pieces and be a source of income for the museum.
Tryon has been working over the past few months renovating town hall to add a new museum and visitor center in the front portion of the building. The museum/visitor center will be located where at one time the town offices were housed.
Newly elected Tryon Commissioner Happy McLeod organized a committee in April to begin the museum and visitor’s center.
