Folk Art Center
About Folk Art Center
The Southern Highland Craft Guild hosts a large craft shop, craft demonstrators and upstairs galleries showcasing regional craftspeople. Within the Folk Art Center is also an America's National Parks store.
Park Passport stamps are available here.
Adapted from National Park Service.
The Folk Art Center is a museum of Appalachian folk art and crafts located at milepost 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, North Carolina. It also houses offices for three separate Parkway partners: the Southern Highland Craft Guild, the National Park Service, and Eastern National (known as EN).
The Center is a cooperative effort between the Southern Highland Craft Guild, the National Park Service, and the Appalachian Regional Commission and is the most popular attraction on the Parkway, seeing a quarter of a million visitors per year.
Opened to the public at its current location in 1980, the Center contains three galleries, a library, and an auditorium, and also houses the Eastern National bookstore and information center. Admission is free.
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- Founded
- 1980
- Annual visitors
- 250K
- 250,000
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Nearby museums
Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 3.9 miles of Folk Art Center; the closest, Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center, is about 1.9 miles away.
