Museums (29)

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.)