Charleston With Kids

Charleston With Kids

Have kids in tow? There's plenty to keep them -- and you -- occupied in Charleston.

Founded in 1773, the Charleston Museum is the country's oldest museum. The Civil War exhibit is a winner with older kids.

On the site of the original 1670 Charleston settlement, Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site. has a reconstructed village and fortifications that youngers can explore.

The Children's Museum of the Lowcountry has hands-on exhibits that will keep kids up to 12 occupied for hours.

Who doesn't like an old fort? Fort Sumter National Monument has guided tours of the place where the first shot of the Civil War was fired.

Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum lets kids run wild on the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, the World War II submarine USS Clamagore, the destroyer USS Laffey, and the Coast Guard cutter Ingham, to name a few.

At South Carolina Aquarium, the 380,000-gallon Great Ocean Tank has the tallest aquarium window in North America.