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The North Carolina Museum of History is pleased to announce that Maria Vann will now lead the three
A new traveling exhibit, “Douglas Ellington: Asheville’s Boomtown Architect,” opens at the Mountain Gateway Museum Saturday, June 29. The exhibit runs through Jan. 26, 2025.Douglas Ellington is known as the architect who changed Asheville into an Art Deco showplace during the late 1920s. In five years, from 1925 to 1930, he transformed the landscape of downtown Asheville.
Young historians from across the state gathered at the North Carolina Museum of History this spring for the
The Museum of the Albemarle will host our monthly History for Lunch on Wednesday, July 17, 2024, at 12 p.m. in the Gaither Auditorium. Joshua Strayhorn, PhD, a Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow with the National Park Service, will discuss the legacies of freedom seekers in North Carolina by highlighting how enslaved people used the strategies they developed during slavery, such as running away, marronage, and resistance, to advocate for themselves during the Civil War and beyond. He will highlight how enslaved people’s knowledge of the environment in and aro
Free ice cream, watermelon, a ducky derby, and a voter registration drive will be happening at the museum’s annual "Red, White, and Blue Ice Cream Social." Enjoy the festivities from 2-4 p.m., on July 4.
The Museum of the Albemarle will collaborate with Elizabeth City Downtown, Inc.’s Mariners' Wharf Film Festival 2024 on Tuesday, July 30, starting at 6 p.m., at Mariners’ Wharf at 200 South Water Street, Elizabeth City to highlight the museum’s newest exhibit Where the Waves Break: Surfing in Northeastern North Carolina.
The Museum of the Albemarle will host our monthly History for Lunch on Wednesday, July 3, 2024, at noon in the Gaither Auditorium. David Bennett, curator of maritime history with the North Carolina Maritime Museums, will explore the development of shad and herring fisheries in the Albemarle Sound. The sound and its tributaries were once home to one of North Carolina’s largest commercial fisheries. Mr.
A new exhibit at the Mountain Gateway Museum, "A Place at the Polls," examines the history of voting rights in the United States and how it played out in Western North Carolina. The exhibit runs through February 2025.From the start of the nation, the question of who deserves the right to vote has been an ongoing debate. For generations, states primarily made those decisions, but wars, protests, and social changes caused the federal government to step in and create Constitutional Amendments to safeguard people’s access to their voting rights.
The Museum of the Albemarle will open the exhibit Who Can Vote: Brief History of Voting Rights in the United States on June 4, 2024. This traveling exhibit from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History “examines voting rights with an emphasis on the role of the US Constitution and the interplay between the states and federal government in determining who is allowed to vote. Beginning with the founding era and going up to the election of 2000, this exhibition explores the complex history of the right to vote that forms the core of our nation’s democracy.
The Museum of the Albemarle invites you to join us on Saturday, July 13, 2024, for the grand opening of our newest exhibition, Where the Waves Break: Surfing in Northeastern North Carolina. Surfing has been around for centuries, with roots in Polynesia, particularly Hawaii and Tahiti. Along North Carolina’s southern coastline, early forms of surfing activity were first documented in 1909. Surfing was introduced to the northern coast of North Carolina in the 1920s.