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Discovery Place Nature, formerly Charlotte Nature Museum, [1] is located at 1658 Sterling Road in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Museum features interactive nature exhibits and live animal displays, including a butterfly pavilion, live species, insects, and a variety of native North Carolina animals. The Museum offers many education programs ...
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]
Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville, closed in 2010 [123][124] Grimes Mill, Salisbury, destroyed by fire in 2013. Health Adventure, Asheville, closed in 2013 [125] LATIBAH Collard Green Museum, Charlotte, closed in 2015, currently no physical site [126][127] Latta House, Raleigh, destroyed by fire in 2007.
Discovery Place Science is a science and technology museum, located in Uptown, Charlotte, North Carolina. Discovery Place Science operates The Charlotte Observer IMAX Dome Theater, also referred to as an OMNIMAX theater. It is the largest IMAX Dome Theater in the Carolinas. [1] The museum opened in 1981 and was renovated in 2010.
Charlotte area: website, 1,107 acres, operated by the County Museum of Coastal Carolina: Ocean Isle Beach: Brunswick: Eastern: Natural history museum with dioramas and exhibits about the natural science, environment, and cultural history of the coastal region of the Carolinas Museum of Life and Science: Durham: Durham: Triangle
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, America's first natural history museum. There are natural history museums in all 50 of the United States and the District of Columbia. The oldest such museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1812. [1]
Mint Museum Randolph resides in a federal style building that once housed the Charlotte Mint.Opening in 1936, it was the first art museum in North Carolina, USA. [2] The permanent collections include American Art, Ancient American Art, American and European ceramics, American and European Decorative Art, North Carolina Pottery, historic costume and fashionable dress and accessories, African ...
The North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame is housed in a 4,000 square feet (370 m 2) permanent exhibit gallery on the third floor of the North Carolina Museum of History.The hall of fame was originally established in February 1963, with support from the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, "celebrates excellence and extraordinary achievement in athletics [and] commemorates and memorializes exceptional ...