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The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (NCMNS) is a natural history museum in Raleigh, North Carolina. The museum is the oldest in the state, and the largest natural history museum in the Southeastern United States. [1] The museum is made up of six facilities, divided between five campuses. The newest facility, the North Carolina Museum ...
Ackland Art Museum. Chapel Hill. Orange. The Triangle. Art. Part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, collection includes Asian art, works on paper (drawings, prints, and photographs), European masterworks, 20th-century and contemporary art, African art and North Carolina pottery. A.D. Gallery.
The museum was officially renamed the Houston Museum of Natural Science in 1960. Construction of the current facility in Hermann Park began in 1964 and was completed in 1969. [4] By the 1980s, the museum's permanent displays included a dinosaur exhibit, a space museum, and exhibits on geology, biology, petroleum science, technology, and geography.
Fallbrook Gem and Mineral Society Museum, Fallbrook. Fossil Discovery Center of Madera County, Chowchilla. Gateway Science Museum, Chico. Gaumer's Jewelry & Museum, Red Bluff. Giant Forest Museum, Tulare County. Gray Lodge Wildlife Area, Gridley. Great Valley Museum of Natural History, Modesto.
City of Raleigh Museum. / 35.777659; -78.639392. The City of Raleigh Museum is a local history museum associated with Raleigh, North Carolina. The museum is located in the historic Briggs Hardware Building on Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh and has a number of exhibits and programs that are free to the public.
The Houston Museum District is an association of 19 museums, galleries, cultural centers and community organizations located in Houston, Texas, dedicated to promoting art, science, history and culture. The Houston Museum District currently includes 19 museums that recorded a collective attendance of over 8.7 million visitors a year. [1]
The fossil record of North Carolina spans from Eocambrian remains that are 600 million years old, to the Pleistocene 10,000 years ago. About 600 million years ago, North Carolina was covered by a warm shallow sea that was home to corals, jellyfish, and Pteridinium. This sea remained in place during the early part of the Paleozoic era and was ...
The Museum of Life and Science —previously known as the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science and the NC Children's Museum —is an 84-acre (340,000 m 2) science museum located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. The museum campus lies in the midst of the Northgate Park neighborhood, bisected by Murray Avenue.