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Raleigh City Museum
The Raleigh City Museum, located in the historic Briggs Building in downtown Raleigh, collects and exhibits artifacts, photographs, and archival material of and relating to the city of Raleigh. Permanent and rotating exhibits interpret the history of Raleigh in a myriad of innovative and thought-provoking ways.

Dorothea Dix Hospital
The mission of Special Collections at Dorothea Dix Hospital is to collect, preserve, and make available institutional history to staff and faculty, North Carolina citizens and other scholars. Information on Dorothea Dix, the history of the hospital, Spring Hill House, and the evolution of modern psychiatric care are collection subjects.

Joel Lane Museum House
Joel Lane House, Inc., preserves, interprets and exhibits Wake County's oldest house, the Joel Lane Museum House, its grounds and dependencies. The organization educates the public about the history, architecture and culture of 18th Century Wake County and about Colonel Joel Lane, an important Revolutionary War figure and a founding father of Raleigh and Wake County.

Haywood Hall Museum House
The purpose of Haywood Hall House and Gardens is to educate and inform the public regarding the Haywood family over the course of two hundred years of Raleigh history. In accordance with the instructions of Mary Haywood Fowle Stearns's will, Haywood Hall has been put to adaptive use for the enjoyment of the community and to promote a greater understanding of the history of North Carolina and of Raleigh, her capital city.

City of Raleigh
Mordecai Historic Park
Mordecai Historical Park seeks to present the history of Raleigh as a planned city and as a designated capitol through the perspective of one family. Not only does it possess one of the most significant original collections of personal items and furnishings in this part of the country, it is also the most authentic representation of Greek Revival in area. Topics covered in the history of the park include women, African Americans, the Jewish community and civic duty.

Wake County Parks Recreation and Open Space
Historic Oak View County Park
Historic Oak View County Park is a nineteenth century farmstead devoted to interpreting 19th and early 20th century North Carolina agricultural and rural heritage. This park has three museums on site - a Cotton Museum dedicated to interpreting the history of cotton, the Farm History Center which interprets farm life over the last three hundred years, and the 1855 original Greek Revival Benton S. D. Williams House which is open to the public and is used for special exhibits and events. Historic Oak View County Park interprets and preserves the agricultural heritage and rural farm life of North Carolina through educational programs, special events and exhibits, and provides cultural enrichment and passive recreation opportunities for visitors.

Page-Walker Arts and History Center
The Page-Walker Hotel, Cary's most important historic landmark, serves as an arts and history center for the people of Cary and the greater Research Triangle area. The Cary Museum, which traces the history of Cary from its earliest beginnings to the 21st century through artifacts, exhibits, an oral history listening station and interactive displays, is housed on the third floor of the center.

North Carolina State University
Gregg Museum of Art & Design
NC State's visual art holdings are as diverse as its course offerings. Reflecting the curricula of the university's School of Design and its College of Textiles, Engineering, and Humanities and Social Sciences, the GAD seeks significant objects to add to its collections including contemporary and historical crafts, folk art, high style studio work, and important industrial design objects. Such objects provide research materials, inspire new and innovative design, and help explain the creative process. Anyone may call and make arrangements to view objects from these collections for the purposes of research, inspiration or their own enjoyment.

North Carolina Museum of Art

The North Carolina Museum of Art houses the art collections of the State of North Carolina. The paintings and sculpture in the state's art collection represent more than 5,000 years of artistic heritage, from ancient Egypt to the present. The collection of Renaissance and Baroque paintings, with works by Van Dyck, Jan Brueghel and Raphael, is internationally recognized. Significant American paintings include works by John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Also represented are collections of African, Oceanic, New World art, Egyptian, Greek and Roman art, 20th-century art, and Jewish ceremonial art.

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
H. H. Brimley Memorial Library
The Brimley Library houses the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences' research library and institutional archives. The archives date to 1884 and include records relating to the early history of the museum. Our photographic collection primarily illustrates the tate's natural resources. Other items include scrapbooks, manuscripts, as well as records from other natural history organizations. The library is open to the public by appointment.

Marbles Kids Museum
Marbles Kids Museum is a museum with interactive exhibits with an emphasis on inspiring interest in our ever evolving global society. The museum opened in the wake of a merger between the former Exploris and Playspace museums.

North Carolina State Capitol
The North Carolina State Capitol, completed in 1840, is one of the finest and best-preserved examples of a major civic building in the Greek Revival style of architecture. The State Capitol building is a National Historic Landmark.

Wake Forest College Birthplace Museum - Calvin Jones House
The Calvin Jones House, built prior to 1820, is the oldest home in Wake Forest. In 1832, Dr. Calvin Jones, sold the house and his farm to the Baptist State Convention for the establishment of a Baptist College. The first classes were taught in the house and later the school became Wake Forest University. Today the Calvin Jones house is the home of the Wake Forest College Birthplace Museum, which celebrates the legacy of Wake Forest College and its roots in the town of Wake Forest. Wake Forest Birthplace is a faithful guardian, not only of the material remains of Wake Forest's past, but more importantly of the culture, values and ideas that began on the old campus and that today distinguish Wake Forest University.

Governor's Mansion
The Governor's Mansion curator is responsible for the preservation and maintenance of the holdings inside the Governor's Mansion. This office houses documentation of all furnishings, artifacts, and decorative items in the mansion, and these records are available to qualified researchers by appointment.

Meredith College
Carlyle Campbell Library, College Archives
The Meredith College Archives is the official repository for official records and other material related to the college. Collections include records of college organizations and departments, material about the college or persons associated with it, material about college life, material about Southern Baptists that affects the college, publications written by persons associated with the college, and publications of the college. Collections of particular interest include early college catalogues, college newspapers, student handbooks, and the Meredith Doll Collection.

North Carolina State Archives
The North Carolina State Archives is part of the Archival Services Branch of the Archives and Records Section, North Carolina Division of Archives and History. The primary functions of the branch include collecting, preserving, and making available for public use historical and evidential materials relating to North Carolina. Its holdings consist of official records of state, county, and local governmental units, and copies of federal and foreign government materials. In addition to these official records are private collections, maps, pamphlets, sound recordings, photographs, motion picture film, and a small reference library.

Shaw University
Archives and Special Collections, James E. Cheek Learning Resource Center
The mission of the Archives and Special Collections of Shaw University is to appraise, collect, organize, describe, preserve, and make available records of historical, legal, fiscal, and administrative value to the institution. The Shaw University Archives also serves research and scholarship by making available and encouraging the use of its collection by faculty, staff, students, alumni and the community at large.

Saint Mary's School
Archives, Kenan Library
Saint Mary's School Archives acts as a repository and conservator for the school's historic documents including dormant administrative and organizational records, private collections, photographs, rare books, and museum collection, including art. The Archives also provides support to other school departments by helping them and supplying the Communications, Alumnae, and Admissions Departments with materials as requested. Most collections in the Archives are available to Saint Mary's students for research purposes as well as to outside researchers on approval.

Saint Augustine's College
Archives
The Prezell R. Robinson Library provides services for the students, faculty, and administration and for the community at large. The library houses the College Archives, which includes dormant administrative records of the college, college publications, private manuscript collections, photographs, and more. The Library facility was made possible in 1974 and was named in honor of the eighth president of Saint Augustine's College (1967-1995), Dr. Prezell R. Robinson, for his outstanding services to the college.

North Carolina State University
North Carolina Japan Center
The North Carolina Japan Center, an agency of the College of Humanities and Social Science, North Carolina State University, was established to strengthen the cultural, economic, scientific, and academic ties of North Carolina with Japan, and improve mutual understanding. The center, housed in the 1815 Spring Hill House is open to the public and maintains a circulating collection of videos, books and journals on Japan and North Carolina's relationship with Japan. The center also provides an interactive trunk exhibit for elementary schools.

African American Cultural Complex
The African American Cultural Complex is located in the home of Dr. E. B. and Mrs. Juanita Palmer, who began in 1984 to collect artifacts and information highlighting African American achievement. Incorporated as the African American Heritage Preservation Cultural Complex in 1994, the facility features three exhibit houses, a nature trail and a picnic area on three acres in Southeast Raleigh. The museum's content ranges from profiles of women in African American history to displays featuring the inventions of African Americans to projects by local students. One of the highlights of the AACC's programming is the outdoor drama The Amistad Saga: Reflections, the only outdoor drama in the country written, directed, and produced by African Americans.

Garner Station Historical Museum
The Garner Station Historical Museum seeks to collect, preserve, and present the history of the town of Garner and the history of the original depot in which the museum is housed.

City of Raleigh Arts Commission
Public Art Committee/Art Bank
The City of Raleigh Arts Commission (CORAC) supports the arts and artists, and works to create a climate in which the arts can thrive. CORAC was established in 1977 to serve as the official municipal advisory body and advocate for the arts in Raleigh. The Commission is both proactive and responsive to the needs and interests of the community. Their permanent collection exists in the form of an "Art Bank" that supplies the city government buildings with visual art for their walls and public spaces.

North Carolina State University
Special Collections Research Center
NCSU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) collects, describes, preserves and provides access to unique, rare and historical information in support of the teaching, learning and research mission of NCSU and the Libraries. We innovate archival services and collection management to further the use of the Libraries' special materials and advance knowledge. Our University and make them available to all interested researchers. Our manuscripts and rare books collecting focuses on the areas in which NC State has made and is making a marked contribution to the development of the field. Broad areas of emphasis for the Center include the History of Science, Engineering and Technology, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Textiles, Veterinary Medicine, and Architecture and Design. Special Collections materials are open to the public. Researchers do no tneed to be affiliated with NC State University to use the collections.

Wake County Parks Recreation and Open Space
Historic Yates Mill County Park
Located off of Lake Wheeler Road just south of Raleigh, Yates Mill County Park features the only remaining gristmill in Wake County. In cooperation with Yates Mill Associates and North Carolina State University, this unique park will provide many opportunities for historical activities and environmental education. Restoration projects and fundraising efforts are currently taking place.

North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office
The State Historic Preservation Office collects and preserves the research files, notes, photographs, and other documentation gathered by the surveyors and others participating in the statewide architectural survey. A separate collection consists of the state's National Register nominations. This office also houses a complete library of all published North Carolina architectural surveys and environmental reviews.

Ray Price Harley Davidson/Buell
Ray Price Legends of Harley Drag Racing Museum
The Ray Price Legends of Harley Drag Racing Museum celebrates the achievements and honors the lives of champion motorcycle drag racers who were and are pioneers in the sport. Collections include motorcycles, motorcycle parts, clothing, photographs, documents, publications, personal artifacts, and memorabilia.

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Research and Collections
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences collects, preserves, and makes available to researchers zoological, geological, and paleontological specimens primarily of the southeastern United States but also of the rest of the country and around the world. Over 95% of the research collection's approximately 1.7 million vertebrate, invertebrate, rock, mineral, and fossil specimens are from North Carolina and the southeast; most collections of extant fauna contain between 90% and 100% of the species known to occur within that region.

North Carolina Museum of History

The North Carolina Museum of History Division promotes the understanding of the history and material culture of North Carolina for the educational benefit of North Carolinians. Through collections and historical interpretation, its museums encourage citizens and visitors to explore and understand the past; to reflect on their own lives and their place in history; and to preserve state, regional, and local history for future generations.

William B. Umstead State Park
William B. Umstead State Park is tucked between the growing cities of Raleigh, Cary, Durham and the corporate world of Research Triangle Park. It is an oasis of tranquility, a peaceful haven where highways fade in the distance as trees, flowers, birds and streams form a more natural community. The Visitor Center at the park features a large exhibit area interpreting the history of the park, the people and families who once inhabited the park area, and the natural history of the region.

Richard B. Harrison Library (Wake County Public Library System)
Mollie Huston Lee Collection
The mission of the Richard B. Harrison Library Branch of the Wake County Public Libraries (WCPL) is to promote the love of reading and to foster the pursuit of knowledge for the residents of Wake County. This library houses the Mollie Huston Lee Collection of 5,000 volumes, composed of both adult and juvenile fiction and nonfiction, serials, pamphlets, and vertical file materials chronicling the African American experience both locally and nationally. The collection is named after creator Mrs. Mollie Huston Lee, who was the first African America librarian in Wake County, North Carolina and founder of the Richard B. Harrison Library.

State Library of North Carolina
Genealogical Services Branch
Genealogical Services of the State Library of North Carolina, an agency of the Department of Cultural Resources, holds extensive published materials for genealogical and historical research. Beginners and researchers needing books (family histories, published abstracts, county, state and federal records), periodicals, and census indexes and microfilms to trace families in North Carolina and the states from which and to which they migrated should begin their research in the Library.

State Library of North Carolina
Government Documents
The State Library is designated as the official, complete, and permanent depository for all State publications and is held responsible for carrying out the provisions of G.S. 125-11. The North Carolina State Publications Clearinghouse runs the depository system which collects and distributes state agency publications to 21 public and academic libraries around the state. The Clearinghouse also manages a collection of born digital state publications that is publically accessible through NC LIVE and the State Library's web pages.

State Library of North Carolina
Rare Book Collection
The mission of the Rare Book Collection at the State Library of North Carolina is to preserve the literary and cultural heritage of the state. Preserving the State Library of North Carolina's text collection fulfills this mission.

Wake Technical Community College
Archives
The mission of Wake Technical Community College Library is to provide educational support for Wake Technical Community College's vocational and technical curriculum. The College Archives was established to collect, preserve, and make available institutional history to its students, North Carolina citizens, and other scholars.

Olivia Raney Library (Wake County Public Libraries)
Olivia Raney Library Local History Library
The mission of the Olivia Raney Library Branch of the Wake County Public Libraries (WCPL) is to collect and preserve materials that tell the story of Wake County, North Carolina and surrounding areas. We specialize in local history and genealogy, also providing materials on N. C. History, U.S. History, African-American History, the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.

Office of State Archaeology
Archaeological Research Center
The Office of State Archaeology Research Center collects, houses, and makes available to qualified researchers artifacts and specimens procured on digs all over the state of North Carolina. Holdings include but are not limited to geological, paleontological, and anthropological artifacts.

North Carolina Supreme Court Library

Pope House Museum Foundation
Pope House Museum
The Pope House Museum Foundation was established in December, 1999, for the purpose of preserving, restoring, and opening to the public the home built in 1900 by Dr. M.T. Pope, an important African American citizen of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Pope House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is an Official Project of the Save America's Treasures Program.

North Carolina Arts Council
Artworks for State Buildings - Public Art and Community Design
The North Carolina Arts Council Artworks for State Buildings program seeks to improve the quality of life of the state's citizens through public art in and around state buildings and to promote the development of artists and craftsmen. The program addresses the importance of each state government building site - its unique history, character, relevance, and use; is responsive to each project's community; provides for artistic integrity and diversity; and integrates the work and thinking of artists into the development of the built environment.

North Carolina Museum of History
Library
The museum library collects, organizes, preserves and stores a collection of monographs, periodicals, exhibit files, photographic files and video and audio tapes to support the research and activities of NC Museum of History staff in fulfillment of their mission to interpret the culture and social, economic and political history of North Carolina from prehistory to the present. The museum library is available to the public through special appointment.

Peace College
Archives, Finch Library
The college archives houses the special collections for Peace College, currently a four-year private women's college. The school opened in 1872 as a Presbyterian-affiliated girl's elementary and high school and later added a two-year junior college. Special collections in the archives include photographs, a complete collection of college catalogs, scrapbooks, artifacts, chronological verticle files on the college history and oral history tapes of interviews with Peace College alumni.

North Carolina Museum of Art
Library
Reference Library of the North Carolina Museum of Art is a research collection serving the staff of the Museum, but is also open to the public. At the core of the collection is the library of William R. Valentiner, the first director of the Museum. The Library's emphasis is on Western European and American art, in support of the Museum's primary collections. The Library holds approximately 30,000 volumes, including books, auction and exhibition catalogs, CD-ROMs, videos and nearly 100 current periodical subscriptions. Other resources include vertical files which include North Carolina artists, and some NCMA publications and archival material.

Office of State Archaeology
Headquarters
The Office of State Archaeology identfies, evaluates, and protects archaeological sites of all types throughout North Carolina, and maintains files, reports, and records of these sites.

Latta House Foundation
Historic Latta House
The Latta House is located in the historic Oberlin Village area of downtown Raleigh on the original site of Latta University, founded in the late 1800s by Reverend Morgan Latta to educate underprivileged and orphaned children in Raleigh's black community. The university ceased operation around 1920 and today only this one building remains. The Latta House Foundation is restoring the Latta House and grounds in order to establish it as an historic site and an ongoing community cultural center and archive.