A quick escape into nature with its three miles of trail exploring riverside forests, bluffs reaching to the highest point in the area and mountain laurel and rhododendron thickets.
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The museum experience in Whiteville is modeled after proven interactive programs at the Museum’s main location in downtown Raleigh. Experience interactive exhibits including: Investigate lab: Use real scientific tools, including microscopes, to measure and observe the natural world. Naturalist Center: Get a hands-on, behind-the-scenes look at a research collection. Touch and learn about NC wildlife. Discovery Forest: Our youngest learners can explore interactive materials with an adult, including building blocks, a nature puppet theater, and science reading nook.
NC Museum of History: 3rd floor closes Jun 3, 2024; 1st floor & building close Oct 7, 2024 for redesign. North Carolina's flagship history museum with exhibits covering 14,000 years of history under one roof with a focus on the state’s military history, decorative arts and culture. Rental Options
One of the South's premier art museums with major holdings in European paintings, Egyptian funerary art, sculpture and vase painting from ancient Greece and Rome, American art, Judaic art and international contemporary art. Rental Options
A regional history museum that tells the story of the Cape Fear region's people and their relationship to the water, including a special focus on pirates of the Lower Cape Fear and blockade runners.
The official repository of artifacts recovered from Blackbeard’s flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge and home to exhibits highlighting North Carolina's coastal culture.
A library focused on facilitating public access to state government information and advancing the study, understanding, and appreciation of North Carolina's cultural heritage.
A base camp for exploration of the New River, a National Wild and Scenic River that winds through some of the best North Carolina mountain scenery.
A special public library that circulates books and magazines especially made for persons who cannot use regular printed material because of a visual or physical disability.
A museum that interprets the history of southeastern North Carolina; the 1897 Poe House, which illuminates turn-of-the-century upper middle class life; and Arsenal Park, where the Civil War-era Fayetteville Arsenal once stood.