Museums

by Littlejohn, Beverly. The Cape Fear Museum in Wilmington began as the Confederate Museum, started by the Wilmington chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1898. It was originally located in a room on the [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Stoesen, Alexander R. Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum by Alexander R. Stoesen, 2006 See also: Brown, Charlotte Hawkins; Palmer Memorial Institute; Museums The Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum is located in eastern [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by . Los aeropuertos y museos [...] (from NC Office of Archives and History.)

by Foard, John Hanby, Jr. John Hanby Foard, textile executive, manufacturer, museum director, and Civil War historian, was born in Wilmington, the fourth child of Charles Deems (1863–1951) and Florence Hanby (1875–1932) [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by . The Greensboro Woolworth counter made famous by the 1960 sit-ins kicked off by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College students Ezell A. Blair Jr (now Jibreel Khazan), Franklin E. McCain, [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Borei, Karin, Smith, Ronni. The Hickory Museum of Art is the second oldest art museum in North Carolina. It officially opened on February 4, 1944 as the culmination of a five-year obsession of Hickory native and fledgling [...] (from NCpedia.)

by Turney, Lisa R. Horne Creek Living Historical Farm in southeastern Surry County, a North Carolina State Historic Site, grew out of an interest on the part of a broad-based coalition of businesspeople, educators, [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Martin, Brenden. The Levine Museum of the New South is a private, nonprofit museum dedicated to preserving and presenting the history of Charlotte and the surrounding Carolina Piedmont. Recognizing the momentous [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Johnston, W. Lee, Jr. The Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum opened in 1962 in St. John's Masonic Lodge at 114 Orange Street in Wilmington as the St. John's Museum of Art. The building had been designed to house St. John's [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Baker, Bruce E. The Mint Museum of Art is located in Charlotte in a building that once served as the first branch of the U.S. Mint outside Philadelphia. Gold was discovered in the Charlotte area in 1799, and by the [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Baker, Bruce E. Mountain Heritage Center by Bruce E. Baker, 2006; Revised by SLNC Government and Heritage Library, August 2024 See also: Western Carolina University The Mountain Heritage Center, [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Caldwell, Martha B. The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA), founded in Winston-Salem in 1965 by Frank L. Horton, is dedicated to exhibiting and researching the regional decorative arts of the South before [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Patteson, Angelyn H. The Museum of the Albemarle in Elizabeth City chronicles the story of the people of the first region of North Carolina opened to European settlement through permanent and changing exhibits, [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Patteson, Angelyn H. The Museum of the Cape Fear in Fayetteville is the third regional branch of the North Carolina Museum of History and the only one that began as a branch museum. (The other two regional branches, the [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Barfield, Rodney D. The North Carolina Maritime Museum began under the auspices of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development in the 1930s. Local citizens [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Maupin, Armistead J. The North Carolina Museum of Art was established in Raleigh in 1947 when the General Assembly appropriated $1 million for the purchase of Old Master paintings. By that action, North Carolina became [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Warren, Harry S. North Carolina Museum of History by Harry S. Warren, 2006 See also: Museum of the Albemarle; Museum of the Cape Fear; North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame; Museums "A ponderous key" [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Bethea, Martha. The North Carolina Museum of Life and Science in Durham was founded in 1946 as the Children's Nature Museum. The original facility was a small trailside nature center adjacent to Northgate Park (then [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Coffin, Alex. The North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame (NCSHF), which honors coaches, administrators, journalists, and other sports-related professionals in addition to athletes, was established in 1963 through the [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Murray, Elizabeth D. R. The North-Carolina Museum was one of the names associated with a short-lived effort in Raleigh in the 1810s to gather and display an assemblage of natural and manufactured objects, curiosities, and [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Wadelington, Charles W. Palmer Memorial Institute by Charles W. Wadelington, 2006; Revised by SLNC Government and Heritage Library, May 2023 See also: Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum. The Palmer Memorial [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Powell, William S. Stanford, Charles Whitson, Jr. by William S. Powell, 1994 13 Sept. 1924–19 May 1990 Charles Whitson Stanford, Jr., museum director, was born in Durham, the son of Charles Whitson and Mary [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Agan, Kelly. State Aviation Hall of Fame and State Aviation Museums By Kelly Agan, Government & Heritage Library, 2014 See also: North Carolina State Symbols and Official Adoptions main page; North [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by . Swain County: Home of the Fly Fishing Museum of the Southern Appalachians by N.C. Government & Heritage Library, 2019 See also: North Carolina State Symbols and Official Adoptions main [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by . Thomas Day statue Statue of famous North Carolina furniture maker Thomas Day at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh. Day, a free black man, moved to Caswell County in 1825 at the age [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Freeman, Margery. Tiered roofs and spires on Cambodia's National Museum building in Phnom PenhTiered roofs and spires on Cambodia's National Museum building in Phnom PenhTiered roofs and spires grace Cambodia's [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Cotten, Alice R. Valentiner, William Reinhold by Alice R. Cotten, 1996 2 May 1880–6 Sept. [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Massengill, Stephen E., Williford, Jo Ann, Baker, Bruce E., McFee, Philip, Caldwell, Martha B. Visual Arts by Bruce E. Baker and Martha Belle Caldwell, 2006 Additional research provided by Philip McFee, Stephen E. Massengill, and Jo Ann Williford. See also: Black Mountain College; [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Smith, Claiborne T., Jr. Franklin Chennault Watkins, artist, was born in New York City, the son of Benjamin Franklin and Shirley Chennault Watkins. His father, a Reidsville, N.C., native, was an inventor and made a career of [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)