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2365
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The new Rosenzweig Museum in Durham houses Jewish folk art, artifacts, and rare books. The dream of the late Rabbi Efraim and Mariam Rosenzweig, who donated over 60 pieces, the museum displays over 125 items and contains more in storage.
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23954
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A new exhibit at Durham's 21c Museum Hotel strives to give patrons a chance to explore how we see things has changed in the 21st century. Some exhibits use technology to confront issues of social, regional, and economic identity.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 32 Issue 31, August 2015, p21-22, il Periodical Website
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23974
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The Nasher Museum of Art's Wilson Pavilion undergoes the most extensive renovations the museum has ever seen in order to provide a new environment in the museum and make the art displays more prominent.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 32 Issue 34, August 2015, p18-19, il, por Periodical Website
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24543
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This article discusses the Living Tobacco Museum and how it will preserve North Carolina’s tobacco industry and heritage. It is located at the Duke Homestead State Historic Site in Durham.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 43 Issue 11, April 1976, p19-21, il, por
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24564
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The Durham Children’s Museum recently opened a Space Exhibit Center that features space artifacts on loan from the Smithsonian and equipment donated by NASA.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 39 Issue 19, March 1972, p10-11, il
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27681
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21C Museum Hotel will open in Durham in 2015 in the historic Hill Building. The hotel will feature rooms for rent, an exhibition space for art, a restaurant, and a raw bar. The museum will be free to the public and open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The art hotel concept is one of three in the country and Durham was chosen as a location for its vibrant art community.
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30744
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One student’s perspective working as a living history tour guide at the Duke Homestead State Historic Site. The homestead site, in Durham, NC is the tobacco plantation that contains a tobacco history museum and the Duke family farmhouse built in 1852.
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35727
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Whether interested in natural world or NC’s rich history, Wise asserted the Piedmont region catered to both. Historic sites highlighted included the Reed Gold Mine, site of the first gold discovery in the US; Chinqua-Penn Plantation, which contained art from around the globe; and Bennett Place, reconstructed Civil War site for General Johnson’s surrender to General Sherman. Nature and science lovers could be sated through Mount Morrow State Park; North Carolina Zoo, first state-owned zoo in the US; and Museum of Life and Natural Science, which contained the greatest treasure trove of outer space memorabilia.
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Tar Heel (NoCar F 251 T37x), Vol. 7 Issue 3, May/June 1979, p19, 41