Senate panel urges SC’s military museum to increase its visitors, income

DECEMBER 9, 2015
BY JAMIE SELF

COLUMBIA The S.C. military museum considering a $5.3 million expansion to display the Confederate flag only attracts about 22,000 visitors a year.

The S.C. Relic Room and Military Museum, which now has a state budget of $824,000 a year, averages only $60,000 in ticket and gift-shop sales annually ...

Lawmakers have given the Relic Room until Jan. 1 to offer a detailed plan for displaying the flag in the museum, which gets about two-thirds of its $1.2 million-a-year budget from the state ...

The museum charges $6 for an adult ticket, gives discounts for youth and senior citizens, and allows children under the age of 10 and school groups in free ...

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