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North Carolina’s only presidential site, focused on our nation's 11 president and the issues that dominated his term. Rental Option

A museum focusing on history that moves you, located on the site of the Southern Railway’s former steam locomotive repair facility. Rental Option

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.

North Carolina's most-visited museum and the largest natural sciences museum in the Southeast, exploring  our natural world through interactive exhibits, educational films, and hands-on learning areas. Hours and Admission

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 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.

A regional museum capturing the history of northeastern North Carolina and showcasing American Indians, watermen, farmers, craftsmen and other communities. Rental Option