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North Carolina Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Rd., Raleigh, NC 27609 919.839.6262 |
This museum houses a major collection of European paintings, plus American, 20th-century, ancient, African, Oceanic, and Judaic exhibits. The permanent collection -- with works by Raphael, Rubens, van Dyck, Monet, Homer,... more
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North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences 11 W. Jones St., Raleigh, NC 27606 919.733.7450 |
The states oldest museums has found a bigger and better home, situated between the capitol and the legislature building. The museums Exhibit Hall daily presents a variety of programs to the public, often featuring live a... more
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Museum of Life & Science 433 W Murray Ave, Durham, NC 27705 919.220.5429 |
Here you can create a tornado, encounter dinosaurs on a prehistoric trail, view artifacts from space missions, and ride a train through a wildlife sanctuary. The nature center contains such native North Carolina animals ... more
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Charlotte Nature Museum 1658 Sterling Ave., Charlotte, NC 28211 704.372.0471 |
This is a great little museum for preschoolers up through grade school. It is not too big to get boring, exhausting, or overwhelming. There are hands-on water play, sand play, and climb and slide...
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Burgwin-Wright Museum House 224 Market St., Wilmington, NC 28429 910.762.0570 |
The house General Cornwallis used as his headquarters in April of 1781 was built in 1770, on the foundations of a jail. After a fine, furnished restoration, this colonial gentlemans town house was turned into a museum th... more
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The Belhaven Memorial Museum P.O. Box 220, Belhaven, NC |
Located in the Old Town Hall building which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the museum features the personal collection of Eva Blount Way. What began as a collection of buttons grew to include old ... more
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Greensboro Historical Museum 130 Summit Ave., Greensboro, NC |
Greensboro Historic Museum is a great version of small town collectibles and tributes to people who had a major impact on the growing municipality.
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Museum of the Cherokee Indian U.S. 441 at Drama Rd., Cherokee, NC 28789 828.497.3481 |
The objective of this museum is to authentically present and preserve thousands of years of Cherokee history and culture. This it does, displaying one of the finest exhibits of Native American artifacts in the United Sta... more
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Smoky Mountain Model Railroad Museum 100 Greenlee St., Bryson City, NC 28789 828.488.5200 |
Today we journey to the "Secret City". After a continental breakfast, we check out of our hotel and depart for Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which was World War II’s Secret City. It is a complete city built for the wor... more
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Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts Main Street, Old Salem, Winston Salem, NC |
The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, called MESDA for short, opened in 1965. It grew from the vision of Frank L. Horton and his mother, Theo Taliaferro, who saw a need to preserve, document, exhibit, and interpr... more
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