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1184
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The restored Borden House opened in February as a meeting center and home of the new Raleigh City Museum.
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3525
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The Coastal North Carolina exhibit at the N.C. State Museum of Natural Sciences seeks to give visitors the feel of being at the beach. At scent stations, various coastal aromas can be sampled, and a 1,200-gallon aquarium brings aquatic life up close.
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3527
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The expanded N.C. State Museum of Natural Sciences, opening in 1999, will showcase ten major exhibits on the state. The Mountains to the Sea exhibit will span two floors and five habitats, featuring live animals and a 20-foot waterfall.
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3611
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Raleigh is home to four museums that can satisfy a wide range of interests: the N.C. Museum of History, N.C. State Museum of Natural Sciences, N.C. Museum of Art, and the Raleigh City Museum.
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Raleigh's Exploris Museum is the world's first global experience center. Instead of the traditional museum approach of collecting material then connecting it with visitors who just come and look, Exploris determined what experiences it wanted visitors to have, then collected materials to support them. Exploris encourages visitors to manipulate and interact with the exhibits through touch, sight, and sound.
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6.Expedition New Museum by Sharpe, Bill North Carolina Naturalist Vol. 8 Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2000
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4537
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Floor plans and photographs describe the features visitors will see on each of the four floors in the new North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, which opened April 1, 2000, in Raleigh.
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4571
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The new North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, scheduled to open April 7, 2000, in Raleigh, will be the largest of its kind in the Southeast. The museum is planning a 24-hour grand opening, which will be the first round-the-clock opening ever held in the state.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 3, Mar 2000,
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4622
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Built in 1879, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science existed for over a century in cramped quarters. Now the Raleigh museum has moved into a 200,000-square-foot, $71 million structure that is being called the premier natural science museum in the Southeast.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 5, May 2000,
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4758
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Over the past decade a number of changes have taken place at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. The museum entrance has been redesigned; the Museum Park Theater has been built; work on the sculpture garden has started; and the galleries for African, Oceanic, and Native American art have reopened on a new exhibition level.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 9, Mar 2000,
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4946
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In 1950, the North Carolina General Assembly in a controversial move appropriated $1 million to make possible the purchase of the founding Kress Collection for the North Carolina Museum of Art. Today the museum's holdings number over 5,000 masterworks valued at over $1 billion.
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4947
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John Coffey, chief curator of the North Carolina Museum of Art, heads a staff that includes Rebecca Martin Nagy, Dennis Weller, Mary Ellen Carr Soles, Huston Paschal, and David Steel. Working together over two decades, the staff has established the museum as one of the nation's best.
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5015
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With the opening of its new exhibition, the Contemporary Art Museum, formerly the City Gallery of Contemporary Art in Raleigh, emerges as the Triangle Area's most risk-taking venue for art. The museum is not yet in its new building, but it has something it has never had before - first-rate curators. Also the museum will feature works of North Carolina artists as well as national and international ones.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 18 Issue 12, Mar 2001,
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8927
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Harry Davis was born at Cape Hatteras in 1896 was educated at Beaufort High School. Later, Davis graduated as a geologist from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1920 and became the assistant director at the State Museum in Raleigh, where H. H. Brimley was director. One of Davis's most memorable tasks was the recovery of a mammoth sperm whale carcass that washed up at Wrightsville Beach on April 6, 1926.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 36 Issue 11, Nov 1972,
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9731
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For years the North Carolina Museum of Natural History in Raleigh was moved from building to building with never a budget and staff large enough to maintain it properly. The event that turned things around for the museum was failure to receive accreditation from the American Association of Museums in 1969. Rohling describe the museum's new look and how it was achieved.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 47 Issue 10, Oct 1983,
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10314
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The new Art Museum opened in Raleigh April 6, 1956. It is the first major art collection in the nation that was purchased with funds appropriated by the state. The collection contains over 200 paintings valued at over $2 million.
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