About Us
Our mission is to enhance local tourism, bolster education, and improve quality of life for local communities through the sharing of visual and performing arts, local histories, and historic cultures. The department is comprised of the Lunney Museum (a historic house museum built in 1909 and listed on the National Register of Historic Properties); Bertha Lee Strickland Cultural Museum (an exhibit museum focusing on local Black/African American history); Faith Cabin Library Museum (under restoration); Carter Archives (17,500 sq ft archive housing a comprehensive history of Seneca and the African American history of the Old Pickens District); Louise Matheson Bell Gallery (located on first and second floors of Seneca City Hall); Seneca Center for the Arts (700-seat fine arts center under construction); Seneca Outdoor Amphitheatre (under construction); two historic cemeteries (Oak Grove Cemetery and Mountain View Cemetery); and historic Blue Ridge Field (future site of the SC Upstate Black Heritage Trail and family park). Our department is also responsible for the city's Mural Art Program and Public Arts programming.