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This list of museums in North Carolina is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Among the frequently visited national parks, this preserved national park covers over 520,000 acres along the western border of North Carolina.
55 acres, includes touch tank, live native animals, Lenoir Memorial Hospital Health & Science Museum, planetarium and campgrounds North Carolina Arboretum: Asheville: Buncombe: Western: 434 acres, arboretum and botanical garden, 10 miles of hiking and biking trails, youth and adult nature programs North Carolina Estuarium: Washington: Beaufort ...
The facility was later renamed the North Carolina State Museum of Natural History. [7] In the 1950s and again in the 1990s, shifts in education further expanded the museum's holdings as universities donated their collections to the state. [1] In 1986, the museum was renamed to The North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. [4]
Port Discover: Northeastern North Carolina's Center for Hands-On Science [6] Elizabeth City: North Carolina: No No Yes Yes Process Curiosity, LLC [6] Salt Lake City: Utah: No No Yes No Providence Children's Museum: Providence: Rhode Island: No No Yes Yes Putnam Museum: Davenport: Iowa: Yes Yes Yes Yes Randall Museum: San Francisco: California ...
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The N.C. Children’s Museum is anticipated to be a 70,000-square-foot building with four levels, most of which will be built into the slope of a hill at 510 Mt. Carmel Church Road in Chapel Hill.
The Jacksonville Children's Museum became the Jacksonville Museum of Arts and Sciences in 1977 and six years later, they were accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. The name was changed to Museum of Science and History in 1988 and 37,500 square feet (3,480 m 2 ) of space was added, including the planetarium then known as the Alexander ...