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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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20851
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This special issue of The Naturalist celebrates the opening of the new North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh.
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4333
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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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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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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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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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12442
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The North Carolina Museum of Art opened its doors on April 6, 1956. It was the first in the nation to have a collection of works of art that were fully subsidized by state funds. This article contains information reviewing the museum's three decades of dramatic growth and success.
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25595
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The North Carolina Museum of Art is the only state gallery in the United States with a permanent collection of ceremonial Judaica displayed as art. The permanent Judaic Gallery is the result of a six-week exhibition, “Ceremonial Art in the Judaic Tradition” by guest curator Abram Kanof. He initiated a fundraising campaign and contributed a number of pieces from his personal collection.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 2 Issue 17, September 14-27 1984,
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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,
p18-25, il, map
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11762
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With the long controversy over site location now over, construction has begun on the new North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. Location was a choice between downtown and a suburban one, with the suburban one the final choice. When completed, the museum will have 170,000 total square feet, with 50,000 square feet of exhibition space.
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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,
p4-5, 27, por
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11170
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This article contains information on paintings and sculptures in the North Carolina Museum of Art. This month's work is THE ADORATION OF THE CHILD by Tiziano Vecellio.
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10469
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In this ongoing series of articles, Tucker discusses paintings and sculptures in the North Carolina Museum of Art. This month's work is The Grand Canyon by Elliott Daingerfield. The museum acquired this painting with funds from the 1947 General Assembly appropriation.
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