Forsyth

Reynolda House Museum of American Art
Visitors can relive the Jazz Era in the restored 1917 mansion of Katharine and R.J. Reynolds with period furniture and decor, vintage clothing and family memorabilia. An orientation video, oral history kiosk and audio tours provide a unique window into the family and the life they lived. Visitors can also enjoy masterpieces of American art dating from 1755 to the present displayed in the historic home and exhibition wing.

Wake Forest University
Scales Fine Arts Center

Korner's Folly Foundation
Korner's Folly House Museum
Famous as a painter of Bull Durham bulls across the South, Jule Gilmer Korner began to build Korner's Folly in 1878. Completed in 1880, this unusual, eclectic house became home to the Korner (or Kerner) family. The design of the home reportedly caused a neighbor farmer, strolling by one day as the structure rose into the sky, to comment, "That will surely be Jule Korner's folly." The home boasts fifteen fireplaces of differing designs of American Encaustic Tiles, a huge ball room, and a third floor theater complete with a stage and seating for seventy-five (or more). The eccentric structure offers 22 rooms spread out over three floors and seven levels, with ceiling heights ranging from six feet to 25 feet, and no two identical doors. Korner's Folly is today open to the public for individual and group tours. Superlatives fail; from tile to woodwork, brick to decorative murals by German master Caesar Milch, the Folly is truly like no other home in the world.

Old Salem, Inc., and Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts
Old Salem, Inc./MESDA maintains a Research Center and Library. The Center offers scholars, researchers, students, and others a variety of resources relating to objects made in the South prior to 1821 and to the artists and artisans who made them. The Center is open to the public, and there is no fee to use the collections.

Museum of Anthropology, Wake Forest University

The Museum of Anthropology at Wake Forest University is North Carolina's only museum dedicated to the study of world cultures. The Museum's permanent exhibits feature subjects from places as far away as Africa, Asia, and Oceana, and as close by as North Carolina's Yadkin River Valley. The exhibits include hands-on activities for children and adults. The collection includes artifacts spanning the human experience across the ages including household and ceremonial items, textiles, hunting and fishing gear, and objects of personal adornment. Special exhibits change throughout the year reflecting a wide variety of interests. The Museum Shop offers handcrafted jewelry, textiles, pottery, and other ethnic gifts from Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

SciWorks
The mission of SciWorks is to promote scientific literacy, life-long learning, and an appreciation of the sciences by providing innovative educational and recreational experiences for all people through interactive programs and exhibits, collections, an environmental park and unique facilities. Visitors can travel through the solar system under the dome of a state-of-the-art planetarium; come face-to-face with river otters and other animals indigenous to North Carolina in their 15-acre Environmental Park; and enjoy interactive, hands-on special exhibits and programs in spacious exhibit halls.

Winston-Salem State University
Diggs Gallery
The Diggs Gallery maintains a permanent collection of works of art. It also houses temporary and rotating exhibits, conducts educational programs, and encourages the study and appreciation of African and African American art forms.

Moravian Church in America, Southern Province
Moravian Archives
The Moravian Archives is the official depository for records of the Moravian Church, Southern Province. Research facilities are open to the public. Material of particular interest for genealogical study include funeral memoirs dating to the 18th Century and plat maps of the entire original Wachovia tract. Other unique items include correspondence and trade letters from Moravian congregations throughout the world, many ministers' diaries and church registers dating to the 1750's, and a map drawn by the father of Thomas Jefferson.

Moravian Music Foundation
The Moravian Music Foundation preserves, studies, and produces modern editions of music from its collections of approximately 10,000 manuscripts, early imprints, and related documents. These collections, which range from the 16th century to the present, were assembled by the Moravians, Protestant missionaries who came to Pennsylvania and North Carolina in the 18th century. They brought with them a rich musical heritage which they maintained -- and enriched -- in the American wilderness. They sent for music from Europe, handcopied what they could not purchase, composed both sacred and secular music, formed the first community orchestras and chamber music ensembles, and built the first organs and stringed instruments in the colonies. And when musical styles changed, they carefully put away the "old" music for some future use. In the 1950s, musicologists discovered these extensive and diverse collections. The Moravian Music Foundation was founded in 1956 to be the custodian and curator of this music. Their collection is available to the public.

North Carolina School of the Arts
Archives
The Archives exists as the institutional memory of the North Carolina School of the Arts, documenting its history from the School's extraordinary beginnings to its present day standing as one of the premiere Arts Schools in the world. The holdings in the Archives include materials relating to the School's establishment as the first state-supported School of the Arts in the country, a substantial audio-visual record of musical performances, dance and drama productions, interviews, commencement and installation ceremonies, and the institutional records of the School. More than 1300 performance and oral history recordings (reel-to-reel, cassette and DAT tapes), 500 videocassettes, over 4,000 photographs and slides, a complete collection of NCSA press releases and a significant collection of over 50 scrapbooks chronicling the first twenty years of the School's history and the achievements of alumni and faculty augment the core collection of administrative records and provide researchers with a rich store of information.

Salem Academy and College
Special Collections and Rare Books
The Clarence E. Clewell Rare Books Room houses special collections of Johnson and Boswell first editions, Southern women writers, Hogarth Press volumes, and primary materials relating to the American slavery debate.

Wake Forest University
School of Medicine, Bowman Gray Campus, Dorothy Carpenter Medical Archives
The Dorothy Carpenter Medical Archives serves Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center as a permanent repository and reference center for documents (written, oral and visual). The Archives was established to encourage the systematic retention of historical inactive records. The purpose of the Archives is to provide reference services, maintain and collect materials, and tape oral histories. It is also the mission of the Archives to support and promote interest in the history and growth of the practice of medicine in North Carolina and to maintain collections of several medical associations.

Winston-Salem State University
Archives, C.G. O'Kelly Library
The Winston-Salem State University Archives primary mission is to identify, collect, preserve, and make available: 1) official noncurrent university records, 2) historical records and objects of enduring value, and 3) personal papers of alumni, faculty, and staff that support scholarly research and the curricular strengths of Winston-Salem State University.

Wake Forest University
Z. Smith Reynolds Library - Special Collections - Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Rare Books and Manuscripts Department's collection emphasis is American, Irish, and British authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (including African-American literature) and cultural and social history, with particular emphasis on North Carolina history and regional Americana. The Collection also supports study in the area of the book arts, including papermaking, marbling, and the history of printing. Book holdings include imprints from Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press; a large Irish collection, including imprints from the Cuala Press and works of W. B. Yeats; a collection of 20th century African-American poetry pamphlets; and numerous author collections including T. S. Eliot and Mark Twain. Literary manuscript collections include: African-American author and Wake Forest Reynolds Professor Maya Angelou former Esquire editor Harold T.P. Hayes (Wake Forest Class of 1948) pastoral counselor and teacher Dr. Wayne Oates (Wake Forest Class of 1940) journalist W.J. Cash, author of The Mind of the South Irish printer and publisher Liam Miller and his Dolmen Press Italian filmmaker Giuseppe DeSantis publisher's archive for Gertrude Stein's What are Masterpieces? Joseph E. Smith music collection

Forsyth County Public Library
North Carolina Collection
The North Carolina Collection of the Forsyth County Public Library is made up largely of materials about North Carolina or by North Carolinians. It houses many rare and out-of-print resources for the preservation and study of local and state history and is a non-circulating reference collection. In addition to published books, this collection includes many photographs, maps, periodicals, microfilm, and vertical subject and family files.

Historic Bethabara Park
A National Historic Landmark, this 1753 site of the German-speaking, Moravian settlement that preceded Salem nestles in a picturesque, wooded 183-acre wildlife preserve with 126 kinds of area birds. The museum features a unique, restored and furnished 1788 church, archaeological ruins, Visitor Center with introductory video, exhibits and tours with costumed guides, as well as a reconstructed village, a French and Indian War fort and colonial and medical gardens. The site also features a mill site and colonial-era cemetery.

Wake Forest University
Z. Smith Reynolds Library - Special Collections - University Archives
The Wake Forest University Archives documents the history of this institution beginning with its formation as the Manual Labor Institute, its change to Wake Forest College, and its current status as a major liberal arts university. Materials in the archives include university and student publications, biography files on alumni and faculty, clippings files, and departmental files. Papers of the presidents, both personal and professional, compose a large portion of the archives. The archives also holds a large collection of photographs that document the history and life of the institution.

Wake Forest University
Z. Smith Reynolds Library - Special Collections - North Carolina Baptist Historical Collections
The North Carolina Baptist Historical Collection had its beginnings with the formation of the North Carolina Baptist Historical Society in 1885. It is also known as the Ethel Taylor Crittenden Collection in Baptist History in honor of the former librarian of Wake Forest College who was instrumental in acquiring materials and developing the collection. The main objective of the collection is to document Southern Baptist life and institutions in North Carolina by acquiring materials in every medium on Southern Missionary, Primitive, African-American, and Union Baptist churches, institutions and individuals.

Malloy/Jordan East Winston Heritage Center
The East Winston Heritage Center serves as a repository for local African American history and houses special collections including Atkins High School class photos and memorabilia.

North Carolina School of the Arts
Moving Image Archive
This archive houses an extensive collection of feature films, live action and animated short films, documentaries, movie trailers and newsreels. It is the third largest non-commercial archives in the country.

Winston-Salem Delta Fine Arts, Inc.
Delta Fine Arts Center
Winston-Salem Delta Fine Arts promotes community interest and pride in American arts and humanities, with emphasis on the contributions of African Americans. Founded in 1972 by the Winston-Salem Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, the organization houses a permanant collection of Haitian paintings from the Hewitt Collection and offers programs for people of all ages in the areas of visual arts, music, literature, drama, history and folk arts.

Salem Academy and College
Archives
The Salem Academy and College Archives houses records of the school, portraits, and other material relating to the history of the institution.

Wake Forest University
Department of Anthropology, Archaeology Laboratories

Winston Cup Museum
The museum preserves NASCAR history and Winston-Salem's ties to America's No. 1 spectator sport. Exhibits include a wall mural chronicling 33 years of Winston Cup racing, race cars, trophies, driver uniforms, helmets, winner's checks, autographed pictures and original racing posters.