Wilson

Barton College
Discipliana Collection
The Discipliana Collection, owned jointly by the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in North Carolina and Barton College. This is basically a religious collection. The collection was formally begun in 1924 by Dr. Charles Crossfield Ware for the preparation of Disciples of Christ in North Carolina (1927). It was kept at the College and augmented by Ware until 1967. Upon C.C. Ware's departure for a retirement home, it was put under the care of an archivist, along with college records. The College records were later separated from the purely chruch records and books and are maintained separately.

Science Museums of Wilson, Inc.
Imagination Station
Imagination Station is part of the NC Grassroots Science Museums collaborative and seeks to educate children and adults through exciting exhibits, programs, and workshops designed to make the natural and physical sciences accessible, understandable, and fun. Imagination Station offers a variety of interactive programs that are designed to promote curiosity and stimulate investigation into various science concepts and meet many of the objectives of the NC Science Curriculum.

Barton College
Art Museum
The Barton College Art Museum, housed in the Case Art Building, provides four exhibition spaces including the Virginia Thompson Graves Gallery, which is endowed, the Lula E. Rackley Gallery, and the North and South Exhibition Corridors that are often used for student exhibitions. The Barton Museum has seven exhibitions per year and shows a variety of original art. Receptions, gallery talks, and other events include the students and the community in the regular exhibition schedule. The Barton Museum also owns a Permanent Collection, which is periodically exhibited.

Wilson County Arts Council
The Wilson County Arts Council provides leadership and opportunities in the visual and performing arts for the citizens of Wilson County and the general public. Towards this end, they maintain and periodically exhibit a permanent collection of two- and three-dimensional works; house temporary and local exhibits of visual art, and sponsor a variety of programs in the performing arts. The Wilson County Arts Council maintains two facilities - the Arts Center, their main office and gallery spaces, and the Edna Boykin Center, their venue for the performing arts.

Wilson County Public Library
North Carolina Room and Genealogy and Local History Room
The North Carolina Room and the Genealogy and Local History Room at Wilson County Public Library provide their public with resources for the study of North Carolina history and literature and regional and local history and genealogy. Primary source material includes regional censes records, newspapers, and county court records, unpublished and limited publication family histories, family and subject vertical files, scrapbooks and records of local social service clubs, and local photographs. Of particular interest to area genealogists is the Hugh Johnson Collection.

Wilson Technical Community College
Archives
Wilson Technical Community College Archives collects and preserves administrative records of the college, copies of all college publications including but not limited to catalogs, student and faculty handbooks, graduation bulletins, programs, and yearbooks, newspaper clippings and publicity concerning the college, and the college president's letter books.

Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park
Vollis Simpson displays his whirligigs in a field next to his workshop where he creates these giant works of art. The public is welcome and encouraged to visit to view his work. Vollis Simpson's works have been exhibited in many parts of the state and the country. His whirligig park has the largest collection displayed in one place.

Oliver Nestus Freeman Round House Museum
The Oliver Nestus Freeman Round House Museum seeks to preserve the African American history of Wilson County and to educate the public for the betterment of the future.

Barton College
Hackney Library
Barton College's Hackney Library has a small but significant special collection of rare books with fore-edge paintings. A portion of this collection is exhibited in the library.

North Carolina Baseball Museum
The museum showcases baseball memorabilia from many of North Carolina's Major League players such as Catfish Hunter, Enos Slaughter, Gaylord Perry and Buck Leonard. Other artifacts chronicle the history of North Carolinians in Minor League, Semi-Pro, Negro League and All American League.

Barton College
Archives
The College Archives, owned by the College and administered from the Office of the President, consist of the college records and memorabilia, and, the records of the Hackney Brothers Body Company. Mr. Edward Holloway is the archivist/curator of the College archives.