• Alexander Vaisman Gallery
  A virtual museum of paintings and drawings by Alexander Vaisman. Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
  
  
• Chinqua-Penn Plantation
  Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Chinqua-Penn Plantation includes a 27-room house museum, filled with art and furnishings from around the world, and 22 acres of historic gardens and landscape. Reidsville, North Carolina.
  
  
• Duke University Museum of Art
  Permanent collection ranging from Ancient to Modern art plus changing exhibitions, programs and scholarly publications. Durham, North Carolina.
  
  
• Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art
  Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art is a non-profit art gallery and educational resource located in the heart of downtown Greensboro in the Greensboro Cultural Center. Incorporated in 1974, Green Hill is dedicated to promoting North Carolina art and art education. The galleries feature a wide range of changing exhibitions throughout the year, focusing on contemporary art by North Carolina artists.
  
  
• Hickory Museum of Art
  The Hickory Museum of Art primarily collects and exhibits 19th and 20th-Century American art along with small holdings of Oriental and European art for comparison. American artists such as Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, J. Frederick Kensett and William Merritt Chase are represented in the Collection. Hickory, North Carolina.
  
  
• North Carolina - The National Railroad Museum and Hall of Fame
  The establishment of this museum on Hamlet, a town once bustling with many passenger trains and still humming with freight trains around the clock, we have the unique opportunity to both preserve a heritage and help create a sense of history, not only within the City and surrounding community, but in the nation as well. We have strived to create an illusion of a time that has already disappeared from the American scene - the era of wood and coal burning steam-driven locomotives.
  
  
• North Carolina - Wilmington Railroad Museum
  Our collection includes: A 1910 Baldwin steam engine known as the ACL #250 A Seaboard Coastline Railroad caboose A Norfolk & Southern Railroad caboose A Richmond, Fredricksburg & Potomac Railroad box car We have extensive model railroad displays that include Lionel and H.O. scale model railroads. We also have a variety of exhibits that include folklore, ghost stories, railroad advertising, railroad police, railroad accidents and disasters. Also, we have all kinds of equipment and gear used by railroad workers which span well over a century
  
  
• North Carolina Maritime Museum
  The North Carolina Maritime Museum documents, collects, preserves, and researches the maritime history--and its corollary natural history--of coastal North Carolina for the purpose of interpreting this history through educational services and exhibits for our contemporary society, and passing intact its material culture to future generations.
  
  
• North Carolina Museum of Art
  The North Carolina Museum of Art houses the art collections of the State of North Carolina. The paintings and sculpture in the state's art collection represent more than 5,000 years of artistic heritage, from ancient Egypt to the present.
  
  
• North Carolina Museum of History
  The North Carolina Museum of History Division promotes the understanding of the history and material culture of North Carolina for the educational benefit of North Carolinians. Through collections and historical interpretation, its museums encourage citizens and visitors to explore and understand the past; to reflect on their own lives and their place in history; and to preserve state, regional, and local history for future generations.
  
  
• North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences
  The new North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences opened its doors to the public Friday, April 7, 2000. Four floors of new exhibits include the world's only Acrocanthosaurus and six other fantastic dinosaurs!
  
  
• North Carolina Transportation Museum
  The N.C. Transportation Museum at Historic Spencer Shops (also known as Historic Spencer Shops) is located on the site of what was once Southern Railway Company's largest steam locomotive servicing facility. Begun in 1896 at a point roughly half-way between Washington and Atlanta, Spencer Shops and the town of Spencer, N.C., were both named for Samuel Spencer, the first President of Southern Railway. It now houses examples of a variety of forms of transportation, including an antique automobile exhibit, and a 120,000 square foot locomotive roundhouse that has recently undergone a major restoration.
  
  
• Rocky Mount Childrens Museum
  Since 1954, the City of Rocky Mount Children's Museum has provided an educational program for young people by interpreting and exhibiting significant objects and enriching their lives through the development of proper attitudes through creative outlets. An emphasis is placed on providing children with "hands on" experiences of the latest technological advances possible as well as giving them an understanding of the history that led us to these advances. Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
  
  
• The Museum of the Native American Resource Center
  The Museum of the Native American Resource Center contains exhibits of authentic Indian artifacts, arts and crafts. These items come from Indian people all over North America, from Abenaki to Zuni. Many other items come from North Carolina Native Americans, with special emphasis on Robeson County Indian people. Particular focus is placed on the largest North Carolina tribe, the Lumbee.
  
  
• The Schiele Museum of Natural History
  The Schiele Museum offers exceptional opportunities for families and visitors of all ages to see the region's rocks and minerals, hills and rivers, plants and animals with fresh wonder. You also can learn what connects this to all the past and present peoples of the Carolinas' Piedmont. Museum families also have been able to meet Smoky the Bear, travel to prehistoric camp sites, paint a fish and discover what walking through the NASA International Space Station might be like. Gastonia, North Carolina.
  
  

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