Museum Gift Store

     In the small town of Kenansville, North Carolina, there is a charming, little museum known as the Cowan Museum of History and Science. For decades, it sat alongside a bare stretch of turf grass where nothing much happened – that is, until it was transformed into a flourishing garden.

     A Museum’s Garden: Secrets, Wonders, and Delights tells the tale of how the Cowan Museum garden came to be and of the subsequent arrival of many strange and wonderful lifeforms. In addition to full-page illustrations and photographs, this book contains a collection of stories about encounters with animals, plant histories, and it even has a fairytale about an enchanted elderberry pie.  

Hardcover. 70 pages. Reading level: high school to adult.

 $15.00

Free to Duplin County Schools,  libraries, and youth/community centers.

Top image: Nature Cycles is the first book of the museum's Nature Cycles Series. Written and illustrated by museum staff. English and Spanish. For toddlers to preschool children.

Bottom image:   

Cycles in Nature is the second book of the museum's Nature Cycles Series. Written and illustrated by museum staff. English and Spanish. For preschool to 2nd grade children. 

$5.00 each

Free to Duplin County Schools, libraries, and youth/community centers.

Prices range from $1.00 - $3.00

Items in this category include:

• Plants and animals found in southeastern North Carolina (with a few exceptions).
• Extinct creatures which reflect the museum's "Deep Time" exhibit and fossil specimens on display.
• Outdoor activities, gardening, and general science and nature.

Cowan Museum staff, inspired by encounters in the Joann Cowan Brown Botanical Garden, designed the pattern for this soft, machine washable tea towel.

• 90% micro polyester, 10% polyamide.
• 16" x 24".
• Machine wash cold. Tumble dry or line dry.

$5.00

• Color: Dark gray with black sleeves.
• Images on the front and back are geospecimens in the museum's collection.
• Tri-blend.
• Sizes: S, M, L, XL.

$10.00

*Supply is limited, so it may take time to replenish.

• Color: black.
• The image has a backdrop of Georgia Blue (Veronica umbrosa) found in our botanical garden and the museum's logo.
• 100% cotton.
• Sizes: S, M, L, XL.

$10.00

*Supply is limited, so it may take time to replenish.

A selection of ceramic 11 oz. mugs which  

include a picture of the Kelly-Farrior House, window panel from the Rock Room Gallery, and the museum's logo. 

$10.00

*Supply is limited, so it may take time to replenish.

• Color: gray/beige or black.
• 100% cotton.
• Adjustable metal buckle.
• One size fits most.

$5.00

The selection of coloring books available at the museum include the following subjects:

• Small animals of North America.
• Classic 1950s cars.
• Early American tools.
• Things found on a farm.

 $5.00

• 100% cotton canvas.
• Double carry handles.
• Museum logo on both sides.
• 15" x 18.5".

 $10.00

• Non-woven polypropylene.
• Coated & water-resistant.
• 13 ¾"  x 13 1/8" .

$5.00

 Two different postcards, each measuring 5" x 7".  One has a photograph of the Kelly-Farrior House. The other has an image of the botanical garden with an illustration of one of our frequent garden visitors - an Eastern cottontail rabbit.

$1.00