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Chapel Hill Museum
The Chapel Hill Museum was founded to exhibit the character and characters of Chapel Hill through collecting, preserving and exhibiting the material culture of Chapel Hill and the region. Since its founding, the Chapel Hill Museum has grown in both content and in spirit. Located in the former Chapel Hill Public Library, the museum maintains two upstairs gallery spaces, museum workspace and offices for the Chapel Hill Historical Society.

Alliance for Historic Hillsborough
Alexander Dickson House
Alliance for Historic Hillsborough preserves, enhances, and increases awareness of the historical and cultural heritage of Hillsborough for residents and visitors. The Alexander Dickson House, "the last headquarters of the Confederacy," houses the Hillsborough Visitors Center and is the site of changing exhibits on the town. The Visitors Center also maintains an old fashioned garden.

Ayr Mount
Ayr Mount, a Federal style structure built in 1815, was home to William Kirkland and four generations of the Kirkland family. On display throughout the restored home is a collection of period pieces, some original to the Kirkland family, fifty-one North Carolina etchings by Louis Orr, and information on Ayr Mount and the Kirkland family. Owned by Classical American Homes Preservation Trust and managed by Preservation North Carolina, the property includes a Poet's Walk, Occaneechi Indian sites, and the Historic Occaneechee Speedway Trail.

Historic Hillsborough Commission
Burwell School
The Burwell School Historic Site rests on two acres in Hillsborough's historic district. Three original structures - the Burwell residence, the original brick school house and music building, and the brick necessary - comprise what remains of the Rev. and Mrs. Burwell's Female School which operated 1837 to 1857. The house includes furnishings and exhibits from the Burwell's occupancy, as well as occasional traveling exhibits. A formal garden with significant plantings is also on site. Interpretation focuses on the Burwell family, their slaves, and the school's students in antebellum Hillsborough.

Orange County Historical Museum
The mission of the Historical Foundation of Hillsborough and Orange County is to enlighten and engage our community and visitors from around the world by preserving and interpreting the history of Hillsbourough and Orange County.

UNC-Chapel Hill
Ackland Art Museum
The Ackland Art Museum exists to bring people and works of art together. The museum acquires, preserves, exhibits and interprets works of art as an academic unit of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to fulfill the University's mission to provide teaching, research and public service for the citizens of North Carolina. As part of UNC-Chapel Hill the Ackland advances the University's global research through artistic and scholarly collaborations with national and international partners.

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North Carolina Collection
Housed in specially designed facilities in the Louis Round Wilson Library, the North Carolina Collection preserves an incomparable assemblage of literary, visual, and material culture items illustrating four centuries of the colony and state of North Carolina. More than 120,000 books and 78,000 pamphlets form the core of the North Carolina Collection, but newspapers, journals, maps, broadsides, photographs, audiovisuals, microforms, and other materials supplement these formats. The department is divided Reference Section, North Carolina Collection Gallery, Photographic Archives, and Photographic Services.

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Manuscripts Department/General and Literary Manuscripts
The Manuscripts Department administers virtually all archival material held by the Academic Affairs Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Department's holdings include over 19 million manuscript items. Since the establishment of the Southern Historical Collection in 1930, collection has grown in size and service. Today the Manuscripts Department maintains the Southern Historical Collection, General and Literary Manuscripts, the Southern Folklife Collection and University Archives.

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Carolina Memorabilia Room
The Carolina Memorabilia Room displays artifacts and trophies of various sports programs available at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and celebrates the student athlete.

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Wilson Library/Southern Folklife Collection
The Southern Folklife Collection is an archival resource dedicated to collecting, preserving and disseminating traditional and vernacular music, art, and culture related to the American South. We do this to advance the study and public recognition of these art forms, and support the education, research, and service missions of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Southern Historical Collection
Since its establishment in 1930, the Southern Historical Collection (SHC) has grown to include more than 16 million manuscript items documenting the American South: letters, diaries, oral histories, photographs, sound recordings, literary manuscripts, and items in many other formats. The SHC continues to welcome all researchers: season scholars, family historians, graduate and undergraduate students, community builders, creative writers, and those with simple curiosity about the history of the South. The SHC is one of the five constituent collections of the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which also includes the Southern Folklife Collection, University Archives and Records Management Services, the North Carolina Collection and the Rare Book Collections.

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University Archives
University Archives is the repository for the historically valuable, official, unpublished records of both the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the major administrative offices of the University of North Carolina System, headquartered in Chapel Hill. The Archives houses roughly five million items dating from the founding of the University, including the correspondence of presidents and chancellors, minutes of the Boards of Trustees, reports of faculty committees, and records of the student government, as well as most of the University's academic departments and administrative offices.

Preservation Society of Chapel Hill
Horace Williams House
The Preservation Society of Chapel Hill was founded in 1972 to protect the atmosphere of Chapel Hill by preserving its historic environments, built and natural. Purposes of the society are to identify and conserve fragile neighborhoods and open spaces; to encourage the adaptation of historic structures for contemporary uses; to encourage the preservation of historic properties through governmental zoning, legislation, and planning; to maintain the visual character of Chapel Hill by advancing the cause of good civic design; and to promote the use of historic sites, and districts for the education, pleasure, and welfare of the citizens of Chapel Hill.

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Rare Book Collection
The Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chape Hill holds over 200,000 printed volumes, 18,000 broadsides and prints, and 1,200 manuscripts covering the full range of human knowledge. Collection strengths include the history and development of the book; French history, particularly in the Napoleonic period; English, Irish, and American literature; print history as illustrated by the Estienne and the publishing firms of Ticknor and Fields, Johny Murray and Smith Elder, and J.M. Dent and Sons. Collecting continues to the present day with strong collections of the avant-garde and alternative publishing as well as selected authors, literary movements, and private presses.

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Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
For more than fifty years, Morehead Planetarium has filled visitors with wonderment and educated students about the Universe. One of the largest planetariums in the United States, the building houses a 68-ft domed star theatre and Zeiss Model VI Star Projector, scientific exhibits and classrooms, 24-inch Cassegrain reflecting telescope and observation decks, visitors' center, art galleries, rose gardens, and the massive sundial for students of all ages and interests. The Morehead Planetarium was a gift to the State of North Carolina by John Motley Morehead III and holds the distinction of training U.S. astronauts in celestial navigation. Eleven of the twelve men who walked on the moon trained at Morehead.

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Frank H. Kenan Football Center Charlie Justice Hall of Honor
The Charlie Justice Hall of Honor Hall of Honor, located on the ground floor of the Kenan Football Center, is a multi-media history of Carolina football. Named for the twice-nominated Heisman Trophy candidate and Washington Redskins, the hall features photographs, awards, trophies and artifacts detailing the history of football at the university. The 18 Carolina players who have been honored by placing their names and numbers on display in the stadium are also featured in the Hall of Honor. Special plaques, flags and an audio-visual presentation on each player are highlighted.

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George Watts Hill Alumni Center
The George Watts Hill Alumni Center is a crossroads for faculty and alumni. Completed in spring 1993 with 63,000 square feet of dining rooms, parlors, meeting rooms, offices and a library, the Alumni Center is the home to which alumni can always return. While the center is the home base for alumni, it also contains facilities that host Carolina activities, the General Alumni Association central office, and furnishings replete with North Carolina history.

Joint Senate of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies
Beginning in the 1820s each Society began to actively solicit portraits of their distinguished alumni and others who represented their ideals. The Phi began its collection with portraits of Johnston Blakely, Joseph Caldwell, and Benjamin Franklin. The Di answered with William R. Davie, William Hooper, and Archibald Murphey. Paintings by such noted artists as Charles Wilson Peale, Thomas Sully, Eastman Johnson, and William Garl Browne grace each collection. The competition created one of the largest privately-owned portrait collections in the state - visually commemorating the long succession of governors, senators, cabinet officials, scientists, and jurists who have issued from the halls of the Societies.

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Herbarium
The Herbarium is both a collection of over 600,000 dried plants and an educational and research institution. As a basic resource for the study of systematic botany and related fields, the herbarium serves as a reference center, a documentation facility and data storehouse. The Herbarium at UNC focuses on vascular plants of the southeastern United States, but particularly North Carolina plants.

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North Carolina Botanical Garden
The mission of the North Carolina Botanical Garden is to support the educational mission of the University of North Carolina at Chapel through developing, displaying and maintaining well-documented plant collections for research, instruction, conservation, extension, public education, and enjoyment for residents in the region, State, and beyond.

Hillsborough Historical Society
The Hillsborough Historical Society promotes research, publication, and programs related to and supporting the history of Hillsborough and Orange County.

Occaneechi Indian Village
The Occaneechi Indian Village, a reconstruction of a Seventeenth Century village on the banks of the Eno River, is a cooperative effort by the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation, the Town of Hillsborough, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It serves as a teaching tool for the Tribe, as well as promoting tourism for the region.

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Sloane Art Library
The Joseph Curtis Sloane Art Library's collection includes books, exhibition catalogs, serials, CD-ROMs, videocassettes, microforms, illuminated manuscript facsimiles, artists' books, and resources available remotely via the Internet. The geographic coverage of its holdings is worldwide and subject scope is on the art of all periods from prehistoric times to the present. The Sloane Art Library also holds the Department of Art's theses and dissertations, with additional copies in the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Library. The North Carolina Women Artists Archive, a small vertical file collection of print and visual material, and the David K. Stone Picture File are also available.

Orange County Public Library (Hyconechee Regional Library System)
Orange County Public Library Local History Collection
Orange County Public Library's North Carolina Room contains a collection of materials related to local history and genealogy. This includes books, microfilm, and genealogy reference material.

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Research Laboratories of Archaeology
The Research Laboratories of Archaeology (RLA) was founded in 1939 as a center for the study of Native American culture in North Carolina and nearby states. Since then, its activities have grown to include research throughout the Americas. Sixty years of RLA excavations have produced one of the finest archaeological collections in the South, including over five million specimens, images and detailed excavation reports. This collection is a unique resource for research, teaching, and exhibition.

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Health Sciences Library Special Collections
Special Collections at the Health Sciences Library consists of historical books, journals, and other printed matter; archival material; medical instruments and realia; and digital collections. Researchers are encouraged to contact the Special Collections Librarian to arrange to use the collections.

Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina
The Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina is the only independent statewide organization dedicated to preserving, sharing and celebrating Jewish culture and artistry. Their goals are to collect, preserve and present the history of the Jewish people of North Carolina; to serve as custodian, collecting and redistributing Jewish ritual objects and preserving Jewish historical sites; and to operate the Rosenzweig Gallery as a venue for Jewish art, with the goal of developing exhibits that can travel to communities throughout the state. The Foundation collects materials that document Jewish life in North Carolina including books in Yiddish and Hebrew, prayer books, Jewish ritual objects and artwork, and memorabilia with a significant religious context. This collection is open to the public by appointment.

Chapel Hill Historical Society
The Society's purpose is the investigation and preservation of Chapel Hill's history for study today and by future generations. To accomplish that goal, the Society seeks out original historical documents, photographs, and other materials for its collection. For the convenience of researchers, these materials have been indexed and catalogued by Society members. The Society's archives and research materials on Chapel Hill history are housed at its headquarters.

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Carolina Basketball Museum
The Carolina Basketball Museum features more than 450 artifacts representing the history of Carolina Basketball. This includes nearly 40 cases of memorabilia, trophies, uniforms, rings, balls, books, shoes, warm-ups, and more. Displays feature the evolution of the Tar Heel uniforms and Coach Dean Smith's innovations and contributions to the game of basketball.The museum is located on the first floor of the Ernie Williams Athletic Center.