Art

North Carolina Central University
Art Museum
The North Carolina Central University Art Museum's collection features the works of various African-American artists from both the 19th and 20th centuries as well as a selection of objects from the African continent. NCCU Art Museum has been called "the most important publicly assembled collection of African-American art in North Carolina" and boasts the works of artists such as Henry O. Tanner, Jacob Lawrence, and Minnie Evans.

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.

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University fosters the understanding and appreciation of the visual arts by providing direct experiences with original works of art supported by a range of exhibitions, programs and publications for the university and the broader community. The museum draws on the intellectual resources of a great research university and serves as a laboratory of the arts dedicated to multidisciplinary approaches to learning. These strategies make the Nasher at Duke a unique cornerstone of the arts for Duke University, Durham and the Triangle community, the State of North Carolina and the greater Southeast region.

Wake Forest University
Scales Fine Arts Center

Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina
Rosenzweig Museum

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.

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.

Western Carolina University
Mountain Heritage Center
The Mountain Heritage Center celebrates the natural and cultural heritage of the southern Appalachian region. Through artifacts and interpretive exhibits, educational programs, and demonstrations, the center promotes the rich traditions of the mountains. Visitors will see the Appalachian region interpreted from new perspectives and come away with an understanding of its land, culture, and people.

Martin County Historical Society
Asa Biggs House
The Martin County Historical Society collects, preserves, and promotes the history of Martin County and maintains the Asa Biggs House in downtown Williamston. Asa Biggs, born in Williamston in 1811, was a leading North Carolina antebellum attorney, judge and state legislator. The Asa Biggs house contains many artifacts from his days living in the house beginning in 1835 and from his children's families of later years.

Edgecombe County Cultural Arts Council
Blount-Bridgers House
On the point of the highest elevation in the town of Tarboro sits a magnificent Federal style home. Originally called The Grove by its first owner, Thomas Blount, and now known as the Blount-Bridgers House, it serves the Tarboro community as museum, arts center, private reception hall, and public gathering place. Under the shared roof of this historic house are the Town of Tarboro, the Hobson Pittman Gallery Foundation, the Blount-Bridgers House Foundation, and the Edgecombe County Cultural Arts Council.

Nash County Historical Association
Stonewall
Stonewall is an outstanding example of late Federal architecture in North Carolina. The Nash County Historical Association operates this three-story brick manor home and its grounds. Built around 1830 by Bennett Bunn, Stonewall has been restored and is open to the public the second Sunday of every month from 2:00pm-4:30pm. Stonewall is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and group tours are available by appointment. The house is also available on a fee basis for meetings, weddings, receptions and other private events.

Gaston County Museum of Art and History
The Gaston County Museum of Art and History is located in the former Hoffman Hotel, circa 1852, on the old Court Square, part of a National Register of Historic Places District, in Dallas, North Carolina. This museum offers elegantly furnished period rooms; a "hands-on" reception parlor, furnished historic hotel rooms on the third floor; and changing exhibits which explore art, history, and historic preservation. North Carolina's largest public collection of horse-drawn vehicles is located in the Daniel Stowe Carriage House, also on the museum grounds. The museum holds over 5,000 objects in its collections, as well as over 20,000 historic documents and photographs.

Bellamy Mansion Museum of History and Design Arts
The Bellamy Mansion Museum of History and Design Arts, a stewardship property of Preservation North Carolina, interprets the architecture of the Bellamy Mansion and its urban slave quarters. The home is also used for rotating exhibits on architectural preservation and history and a variety of educational programs.

North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher
The North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher, one of three aquariums operated by the state of North Carolina, was established in 1976. It reopened in 2002 after undergoing a two-year expansion which tripled its size. The aquarium exhibits live animals and habitats depicting the ocean and streams, rivers and estuaries of the Cape Fear River basin. The Aquarium's mission is to inspire appreciation and conservation of North Carolina's aquatic environments.

Bernice Bienenstock Furniture Library
The Bernice Bienenstock Furniture Library, established in 1972 as a non-profit educational center, houses the world's largest collection of books on the history of furniture - over 70,000 volumes. The collection encompasses significant volumes published worldwide since 1640 and includes a complete collection of the original works of 18th-century furniture masters Chippendale, Sheraton, and Hepplewhite, as well as a complete set of Diderot's Encyclopedia. The collection is non-circulating and is open to the public.

Greensboro College
Art Department
Greensboro College owns and periodically displays three permanent collections of art, the Ruth Abbott Clarke Collection, the Callie Braswell Collection, and the original Print Collection, as well as other miscellaneous pieces of two- and three-dimensional art.

Guilford College
Art Gallery
The Guilford College Art Gallery houses and exhibits a wide variety of two- and three-dimensional works of art. Significant collections include the Rachel and Allen Weller Collection, the Ruth and Ira Julian Collection, and the A. Kelly Maness, Jr., Collection of West & Central African Art. Although 20th century American art is emphasized, the collection also features internationally renowned artists such as Rembrandt, Picasso and Dali, works from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, an impressive selection of contemporary Polish etchings and engravings, and a small collection of Josef and Anni Albers art and archival material. The Art Gallery seeks to enrich the educational and cultural environment of the campus and greater Greensboro area through exhibitions and programming, and to preserve the college's permanent collection of art.

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
North Carolina A & T State University Galleries
The collections of the University Galleries are the stories of the African Diaspora told on canvas, textiles, in sculpture, music and with personal possessions. The University Galleries has two focal collections which constitute its permanent collection: the Mattye Reed African Heritage Collection, dedicated to the ancestral and contemporary arts of Africa and the Caribbean and the Henry Clinton Taylor Collection which centers around the work of both emerging and established African American artists. Both collections and three magnificent gallery spaces are housed in the historic Dudley Building, originally built in 1931.

Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum
The Cameron Art Museum provides a cultural gathering place for all ages, featuring changing exhibitions of art; dynamic public programs in all media (lectures, music, films, literature, dance); monthly family and children's programs; a unique program of tours for Alzheimers patients; workshops and classes in ceramics at the Clay Studio, as well as weekly classes in Tai Chi and Yoga. Located on a Civil War historic site, the museum is surrounded by woodlands, nature trails, and a growing public art park. The museum gift shop includes unique, artist-made items in ceramic, glass, textiles, wood, and metal.

UNC-Greensboro
Weatherspoon Art Museum
The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro collects, preserves and exhibits American artists from the turn of the century onward. Special collections include Henri Matisse prints and bronzes from the Cone Collection and the Dillard collection of works on paper. The museum also maintains an outdoor sculpture garden to compliment the gallery spaces.

Cedar Creek Pottery and Gallery
Museum of American Pottery
The Museum of American Pottery came into being as a result of an exhibit called "Old Pots" at Cedar Creek Gallery in the 1970's. This exhibit of pots was initially scheduled to run for 30 days, but the public response was so great that the exhibit became a permanent feature. The Museum of American Pottery seeks to honor family and studio potters who, through their work, have made a significant contribution to the arts; to establish a permanent collection, open to the public, of historic and contemporary pottery by family and studio potters; to establish a library of books, magazines, articles, videos, and photos of pottery and potters from 1700 to the present; to provide funds for research and opportunities for pottery students to further their studies; and to make sure that examples of work by these potters are preserved for future generations.

Harnett County Indian Museum
The Harnett County Indian Museum houses and exhibits Native American tools, artifacts, and art objects from all over the country with a core focus on locally collected items. The mission of this institution is to have a place where students can come and learn more about American Indians and how they lived in the past.

Mint Museums
The Mint Museum of Art features a rich collection of American fine and decorative arts with particular strengths in pre-Columbian art and traditional European ceramics; while the Mint Museum of Craft + Design presents the ever-evolving field of international studio craft and design.

Davidson College
Van Every/Smith Galleries
On either side of the front entrance of the Belk Visual Arts Center are the William H. Van Every, Jr. and Edward M. Smith Galleries, providing over 2,000 square feet for exhibitions. The College's 2,700-piece permanent collection is housed in climate-controlled quarters in the basement with adjoining rooms for preparation and materials storage. These areas are managed by the Gallery Director. Gallery exhibitions by student, faculty, regional, national, and international artists change about every six weeks.

Maimy Etta Black Fine Arts Museum and Historical Society
The Maimy Etta Black Fine Arts Museum and Historical Society seeks to show the connected passages of Black people; to collect, document, preserve, and interpret African American and Global Black art and artifacts; to collect, document and preserve records of the Thompson family of Forest City, NC, and other black families; and to share this vision and these materials with researchers and the public in a comfortable, safe environment conducive to conversation and enlightenment.

Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities
NC Literary Hall of Fame/James Boyd Library
Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities has flourished as a cultural center since 1979, with an established chamber music series, lecture series and writers-in-residence program. The Chamber Music Series features nationally and internationally known chamber musicians and performers from the music facilities of North Carolina's universities. Local youth participate in a Young Musicians competition. The Ragan Writers Series hosts readings by a diverse group of North Carolina's highly acclaimed writers. Special collections include James Boyd's personal library and the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, featuring literary works and photographs of North Carolina's great writers, many of whom were contemporaries of Boyd.

Historic Murfreesboro
Brady C. Jefcoat Museum of Americana
The Circa 1922 Murfreesboro High School now houses an incredible collection of Americana representing 25 years of active collecting by Raleigh resident Brady C. Jefcoat. The diversity of the collection is overwhelming, ranging from laundering and cooking equipment to Daisy air rifles and mounted animals and game birds.

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.

North Carolina State University
Gregg Museum of Art & Design
The Gregg Museum of Art & Design is a collecting museum at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. The Gregg Museum operates under the Division of Student Affairs and is located in the Talley Student Center in the middle of the NCSU campus. The Gregg’s collecting focus reflects the mission of North Carolina State University and supports its academic programs by providing research opportunities for NCSU students and the citizens of North Carolina and beyond. The collection includes, but is not limited to, textiles, ceramics, outsider/folk art, photography, architectural drawings & modern furniture. The Gregg Museum of Art & Design also puts on 6-8 exhibitions per year in its two galleries, in addition to exhibiting work at various places in the Talley Student Center and around campus.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Faison Museum
The Faison Museum preserves artifacts and information about the history of the small community of Faison. Edhibits inside the museum rotate 4-5 times each year. The exhibits center around past and present events and people connected to the life and times of the Faison area. The Faison Museum will soon be moving to a new location in downtown Faison, but is open to visitors at the current location in the meantime.

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
H. Clinton Taylor Art Gallery
The H. C. Taylor Art Gallery provides a space for promoting increased awareness of the African American's contribution to the visual arts and American culture, and fosters a forum for the presentation, preservation, and exhibition of visual arts media. Named for Henry Clinton Taylor, founder of the Art Department, the gallery opened in the basement of the Dudley Building in 1956 to exhibit works by American artists. In the nearly five decades since, the gallery has emerged as a showcase for world and African American art. The collection of African American works now includes pieces by Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Lois Mailou Jones, Sam Gilliam and Varnett P. Honeywood.

Randolph County Public Library
Randolph Room
The Randolph Room is located on the first floor of the Asheboro Public Library, and includes a collection of manuscripts and papers, published material, maps, photographs, and ephemera fundamental to the study of genealogy and local history for Randolph County. The collection is non-circulating because of the subjects and types of material it contains; however, patrons are welcome to visit and use materials in-house. Resources are available in many formats including print, microfilm, and computer media. Also of interest is a large collection of bird sculptures by local artist Clarence Lewallen and the original Civil War flag of the Randolph Hornets.

Durham Arts Council
The Durham Arts Council creates community through the active involvement of artists, teachers, students, business partners, friends, and donors. In addition to their changing exhibition spaces, the Arts Council has a small permanent collection of artwork by local artists on display as well as a sculpture by Vernon Pratt outside the building.

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.

Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts in the Shelton House
The Shelton House was built in 1875 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Housed in and around the Shelton House, the Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts features comprehensive exhibits of 19th Century crafts including hand-woven coverlets, quilts, sculptured porcelain, dulcimers, masterpieces of pottery work and furniture and a fine collection of southeastern and southwestern Native American artifacts. Artists who have participated in the North Carolina State Fair's Village of Yesterday also have a selection of their crafts displayed.

Indian Museum of the Carolinas
The Indian Museum of the Carolinas seeks to increase public awareness of past and present native cultures and to further research archaeology in North and South Carolina. Emphasis is placed on the early Indians of the southeastern United States including the Cherokee, Coharie, Tuscarora, Waccamaw-Siouan, Catawba, and Lumbee, although exhibits feature artifacts and information from other parts of the country and Mesoamerica. The permanent collection contains over 200,000 artifacts, some more than 10,000 years old, and features pottery, tools and weapons, jewelry and costume, a dugout canoe, and contemporary art.

JAARS, Inc.
Mexico Cardenas Museum
The Mexico Cardenas Museum honors Lazaro Cardenas, president of Mexico from 1934-1940 and personal friend to William Cameron Townsend, founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators and the Summer Institute of Linguistics. Cardenas supported Townsend's efforts to bring a written language, education and health services to more remote areas of Mexico. Pictures, artifacts, folk art and costumes illustrate the talents of the indigenous people of Mexico. Translations of the Bible in the various dialects discovered in Mexico by SIL are also on display in the museum.

Appalachian State University
Appalachian Cultural Museum
The Appalachian Cultural Museum seeks to foster an understanding of the people of the Appalachian Mountains and to serve as a laboratory for new museum ideas. Through exhibits, publications, and special events, the Museum presents the rich traditions of the region. The Museum strives to represent western North Carolina in a manner that is authentic and non-stereotypical.

UNC-Pembroke
Native American Resource Center
The Museum of the Native American Resource Center contains exhibits of authentic Indian artifacts, arts and crafts. These items come from Indian people all over North America, from Abenaki to Zuni. Many other items come from North Carolina Native Americans, with special emphasis on Robeson County Indian people. Particular focus is placed on the largest North Carolina tribe, the Lumbee.

North Carolina Arboretum
The North Carolina Arboretum cultivates connections between people and plants through creative expressions of landscape stewardship. The Arboretum has a library of materials relating to botanical subjects. These materials are cataloged in the University of North Carolina Asheville library catalog and are available by appointment for on-site use only. There is also a permanent collection of artwork on display at the Arboretum including quilts, decorative gates, and outdoor sculpture.

East Carolina University
Wellington B. Gray Gallery
The mission of the Wellington B. Gray Gallery is to promote the understanding and appreciation of the visual arts and artists addressing the greater context of the visual arts in the communities of North Carolina and the southeast region. Toward this goal, the gallery annually sponsors 10 exhibitions of contemporary and historical based art in the various media. The Gallery's educational programs engage the local and regional communities striving to expand the understanding of the visual arts within contemporary culture and events. The Gray Gallery's educational programs are multi-disciplined and include exhibitions, lectures, teleconferencing, distance learning, workshops, symposia, and interaction with public schools and community. All gallery programs are offered free to the public on a year-round schedule with the Gallery available six days a week.

Greenville Museum of Art
The Greenville Museum of Art exists to foster, stimulate, and promote the appreciation and development of visual art for the citizens of Greenville, Pitt County, and northeastern North Carolina. The museum presents a regular schedule of exhibitions of local and regional interest including aspects of the permanent collection as well as those on temporary loan. The museum offers a variety of lectures, tours, classes, and school outreach programs designed to enrich the lives of its constituents. The museum's collection focuses primarily on quality works by North Carolina artists and works by noted American landscape artists from 1860-1930.

Cherokee Historical Association
Oconaluftee Indian Village

Aurora Fossil Museum
The Aurora Fossil Museum collects and displays fossils from the coastal regions of North Carolina and also from other places throughout the world. Their emphasis is on the preservation and display of numerous exhibits of fossil remains that come from the PCS Phosphate mining operation. Using these fossils, the museum tells the story of the formation of the Coastal Plain from the birth of the Atlantic Ocean to the present. The museum has an outdoor fossil bed where children can search for fossils, and the museum sponsors an annual fossil auction on Memorial Day Saturday. The Aurora Fossil Museum is divided into two buildings, one housing the gem/mineral and earth history gallery and the other housing the shark and Native American gallery.

Museum of American Cut and Engraved Glass
The Museum of American Cut and Engraved Glass exhibits cut and engraved glass primarily from the American Brilliant Period, 1876-1916. The museum seeks to educate people about glass from this period and increase awareness of and appreciation for this American art form.

Rutherford County Farm Museum
The Rutherford County Farm Museum collects and exhibits farm tools and equipment, household and utilitarian items, and other artifacts from days gone by - some dating to the 19th Century - reflecting rural ways of life in Rutherford County through World War II. Two large, beautiful murals depicting the cycle of growing cotton and the early textile mills of the county grace the walls of one portion of the museum. Items of particular interest include a left-handed plow, a livermush paddle, and a gas iron. School groups are welcome and encouraged to visit and step into Rutherford County's past.

St. James Place
St. James Place is a private folk art museum housed in the restored old Robersonville Primitive Baptist Church. It features pieces from the personal collection of Dr. Everette James, Jr., a native of Robersonville and former chair of Radiology at Vanderbilt University.

Belmont Abbey College
Belmont Abbey Archives
The Belmont Abbey Archives seeks to record the history and work of Maryhelp Abbey (1876-present), commonly known as 'Belmont Abbey.' The archive includes the abbatial 'diocese' (1910-1977) and several priories and schools directed by Belmont Abbey. The repository also includes the records of the history and work of Belmont Abbey College and the papers of the abbots and abbots-ordinary. The Archives of Belmont Abbey is an extensive collection of documents, artifacts, photographs and pretiosa covering the history of Belmont Abbey, her apostolates and foundations, and the Catholic Church in the Southeastern United States since 1876.

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.

North Carolina Auto Racing Hall of Fame
The North Carolina Auto Racing Hall of Fame is the official visitor center for Mooresville. The museum features over 35 cars dedicated to all types of auto racing. Visitors can relive racing's greatest moments in the Goodyear Mini-Theatre or simply stroll by the many showcases and displays. The highlight of the exhibit hall is the bronze plaques featuring Hall of Fame inductees. An art gallery featuring many motor sports artists and a gift shop are part of the Hall of Fame as well.

Ava Gardner Museum, Inc.
The Ava Gardner Museum occupies approximately 6000 square feet and contains a large collection of memorabilia including theater posters, promotional photos by the movie studios, media coverage including photos and papers, costumes, personal family pictures and related artifacts and her acting awards. The museum's library collects books specifically on Smithfield native Ava Gardner, but also on the movie industry.

High Point University
University Archives and Smith Library Special Collections
The University Archives at High Point University collects materials pertinent to the university and the Methodist church. This collection includes but is not limited to class photographs, yearbooks, catalogs, syllabi, self-studies and artifacts related to the college's history. Related collections include rare books and a small art and portrait collection.

Whippoorwill Academy and Village
Whippoorwill Academy and Village seeks to share the local history of Ferguson and the Wilkes County area through the preservation and interpretation of the 1880 Whippoorwill Academy and other historic structures of the region. Tours and educational programs focus on the history of Wilkes County, early rural education, and the stories of Tom Dula and Daniel Boone. Other programs include exhibits of local and regional art and the artwork of Edith Carter, owner of Whippoorwill Academy and Village. The site is open April-December, Saturday and Sunday, 3:00-5:00PM, and by appointment.

North Carolina Pottery Center
The North Carolina Pottery Center opened to the public in 1998 to promote public awareness and appreciation of the history, heritage, and ongoing tradition of pottery-making in North Carolina through educational programs, public services, collection and preservation. The 6000 sq. ft museum is home to a permanent colleciton of historical and contemporary North Carolina pottery dating from the early 18th Century to present, temporary exhibitions, and examples of Seagrove area potters. Guided tours, demonstrations, special programs, classes, and workshops are available in addition to self-guided visits.

Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center
The Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center preserves and continues the unique legacy of educational and artistic innovation of Black Mountain College for public study and enjoyment. They achieve their mission through collection, conservation, and educational activities including exhibitions, publications, and public programs. The museum's permanent collection contains artifacts from Black Mountain College including the original sign and benches from the Quiet House, as well as photographs, oral histories, artwork, and papers.

Clay County Historical and Arts Council
Old County Jail Museum
The Historic and Arts Council preserves the local history and native arts and crafts of Western North Carolina. Highlights of the museum include a Native American artifact collection from the Spike Buck Town Mound, Dr. Killian's doctor office, the Gideon Laney Photo Collection and the jailhouse building which houses the museum.

Partnership for the Sounds
North Carolina Estuarium
The North Carolina Estuarium is a unique combination of science museum, history museum, and educational center. Its mission is to promote sustainable community-driven economic well being and stewardship in the Albemarle-Pamlico region through environmental education and nature-based and cultural tourism. The Estuarium defines and interprets the historical and modern day significance of the estuary through interactive exhibits including native living creatures, environmental artworks, creative audio-visual components, historic artifacts, K-12 educational programs, games, and activities, and river excursions aboard the Estuarium's pontoon boat.

BHM Regional Library
BHM (Beaufort Hyde Martin) Regional Library is located in the old Beaufort County Courthouse in Washington, NC. The Library is housed on the first floor; the second floor is still used for court proceedings today. Library special collections include genealogical material, local history material, reference books and maps. Also of interest are two collections of original art - the Catherine Bleeker Bangs Folger Collection and the Sophie Creadle Collection.

Belhaven Memorial Museum
The Belhaven Memorial Museum seeks to collect, display, and preserve historical and cultural artifacts and objects and to stimulate and encourage interest and support of the history, art, science, and culture of the Belhaven area, Beaufort County, and eastern North Carolina. The museum builds upon the unique and eclectic original collection of Mrs. Eva Blount Way and is housed on the second floor of the Belhaven Town Hall.

Pocosin Arts
Pocosin Arts is a private educational organization whose mission is to connect culture to environment through art. Pocosin Arts serves the northeast region of North Carolina with a gallery, studios, classes and workshops, permanent and rotating exhibits, a gift shop, and special events focusing on but not limited to folk arts including dance, music, pottery, weaving, and carving, as well as drawing, painting, and sculpting.

Hickory Museum of Art
The Hickory Museum of Art collects, preserves, exhibits, and interprets historic and contemporary American art of the highest quality. It serves the interests and goals of the community and the region as an educational and cultural resource. The Hickory Museum of Art is known for its impressive collection of paintings of National Academy of Design artists. The museum seeks to make its entire collection accessible and known to people of all ages, interests, and backgrounds through display, publication, and other educational means.

Polk County Public Library
The Polk County Public Library has a special collection of local history materials and a huge collection of books and reading assistance equipment for the hearing impaired and visually impaired.

UNC-Chapel Hill
University of 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.

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

Mount Olive College
Moye Library, Free Will Baptist Historical Collection
Special Collections at Moye Library seeks to acquire and preserve historical material relating to the history of the supporting denomination (Free Will Baptist) and its endeavors in Christian higher education and to serve as a repository for archival materials of the College itself and for various works of art donated to the College.

UNC-Wilmington, Randall Library
UNC-Wilmington Special Collections
The Special Collections at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington collects, arranges and describes and provides access to their manuscripts and audio-visual media collections specifically to the UNCW community, but to the general public as well. They collect manuscripts, books, audio formats, videos, and photographs on subjects related to the university, the Wilmington area, and the southeastern portion of North Carolina.

Hiddenite Center, Inc.
The Hiddenite Center is a folk and cultural arts center, housed in a Victorian house that enables visitors to step back in time. Period furniture and art fill the lower level of the museum, which also includes an exhibition of native gems and minerals. A large doll collection dating from the 1800s spurs childhood memories in addition to depicting popular culture. The changing exhibitions of the gallery allow visitors to mesh the history and heritage of the past within the art of today. The museum also provides hands-on educational activities and arts programming to encourage self-expression in the arts and promote preservation of local history.

Atlantic Coast Line Depot Museum
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Chadbourn ACL Passenger Depot Museum has been lovingly restored to depict the depot during the railroad's prime era. The depot displays a variety of historical artifacts including model railroads, period furnishings, Aubudon prints, railroad memorabilia, and even fashions from the early 1900s.

Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center
The Core Sound Watefowl Museum & Heritage Center brings together the historical, cultural, artistic, environmental, and educational elements of eastern North Carolina to preserve the rich waterfowl heritage associated with the Core Sound area. The museum showcases the history, culture, crafts, lifestyles, and the surrounding environment/wildlife of the Core Sound region through community and artistic displays, a freshwater pond and self-guided nature trail and public/private programs.

Thomas Wolfe Memorial
The author Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) spent his childhood and adolescence in Asheville, North Carolina. His mother's boardinghouse is now the Thomas Wolfe Memorial. Named "Old Kentucky Home" by a previous owner, the rambling Victorian structure was immortalized by Wolfe as "Dixieland" in his epic autobiographical novel, "Look Homeward, Angel". The house is restored to look as it did in the early 20th century when young Tom Wolfe and Mrs. Wolfe's boarders shared a roof. The Visitor Center houses an exhibit hall featuring personal effects from the Wolfe family home, Wolfe's New York City apartment, and his father's stonecutting shop. Tours of the Memorial are offered at regular times and depart from the Visitor Center.

Asheville Art Museum
The Asheville Art Museum engages, enlightens and inspires individuals and enriches community through dynamic experiences in American Art of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Southern Highland Craft Guild
The Southern Highland Craft Guild is a non-profit 501(c)(3), educational organization of over 700 craftspeople living and working in the mountainous regions of nine southern states: AL, GA, KY, MD, TN, VA, WV, SC and NC. Since its inception in 1930, the Guild has worked to instill and maintain standards of excellence in the design and workmanship of crafts taught, produced and marketed in the southern Appalachian region. The history of the Guild dates back to the turn of the century during what is known as the Southern Arts and Crafts Revival. The Guild's headquarters, the Blue Ridge Parkway's Folk Art Center, is located just five miles east of downtown Asheville, North Carolina.

Biltmore Company
Museum Services
The Special Collections at Biltmore House document the construction and operation of the estate, as well as the farming and forestry operations of the Biltmore estate. They also include the 23,000-volume library of George W. Vanderbilt, Biltmore's original owner.

John C. Campbell Folk School
Fain Archives and History Center
The John C. Campbell Folk School was founded in 1925 as a collaboration between two female educators, Olive Dame Campbell and Marguerite Butler, and the people of Brasstown. The school was founded as a means to enrich and enliven the existence of local/regional community members. Based on the Danish folk schools, the John C. Campbell Folk School operates on the fundamentals of non-competitive adult education. Classes include the folk and fine visual arts, folk and fine craft, folk music, folk dance, cooking, gardening, and writing. Collections in the Fain Archive and History Center include audio recordings of local/regional folk and vernacular music in a variety of analog and digital formats, video tapes, DVD's, photographs (including important photographs by Doris Ulmann), school records on paper, manuscripts, and memorabilia. The History Center is open regular hours to the public and the Fain Archives is open to approved researchers by appointment. Visitors to the Histor Center will discover the rich heritage that has made the Folk School an Historical landmark and much used destination for contemporary cultural tourism.

Fayetteville Museum of Art
The Fayetteville Museum of Art was founded in 1971. Originally housed in downtown Fayetteville's historic Market House, the Museum moved in 1978 to its present facility that was the first building in the State of North Carolina designed and built as an Art Museum. In addition to the modern facility that includes two galleries, classrooms, studio space, an Art Reference & Slide Lending Library, and a Museum Store, the Museum's 5.8 acre grounds and pond give the Fayetteville community a place to gather for relaxation. The park-like setting is an oasis in the midst of a heavily trafficked area; it is also utilized for large-scale sculpture displays, art festivals and public concerts. The Museum has recently begun a campaign to build a new MoA in Fayetteville's Festival Park. The designer of the project is world reknowned architect Enrique Norten. Please visit our website to see our visionary design and to find out how to be a part of our campaign!

North Carolina Music Hall of Fame
The North Carolina Music Hall of Fame collects memorabilia, ephemera, art, artifacts, and other items pertaining to North Carolina musicians and the music industry in North Carolina, past and present.

Beaufort County Arts Council
The Beaufort County Arts Council supports artistic programs throughout the county. The diverse offering of cultural programs includes an annual juried art show and crafts show, year-round exhibitions in the adjacent Washington Civic Center gallery, a series of free public concerts for all ages, an annual art camp for young people, workshops, lectures, and organized trips to attend outstanding cultural events. The renovated Atlantic Coastline Railroad Station houses the Arts Council Offices, meeting room and Lane Gift Shop where hand-crafted artwork by area artists and craftspeople is available.

Partnership for the Sounds
Columbia Theater Cultural Resource Center
The Columbia Theater Cultural Resources Center is a local history museum housed in the old movie theater in downtown Columbia. Exhibits focus primarily on the history of the four major enterprises traditional to the northeast region of North Carolina - farming, fishing, forestry, and hunting. Other displays feature artifacts from local domestic life and industry, photographs, some Native American items, and some equipment originally used in the Columbia Theater.

Lanier Library
In the winter of 1889 when Tryon, NC, was a village of red clay roads and only twenty-four houses, five ladies met and formed a club to encourage the civic and educational welfare of the community and to promote and support a library. Named for poet Sidney Lanier whose last months of life were spent in Tryon, the library's first books were two volumes of his poems, a gift from his widow, Mary Lanier. This library grew from that beginning and has occupied the same building since 1910. The Lanier Library is a private membership, not-for-profit organization. It is open to the public but only members may check out books. Special collections include the Sidney Lanier collection of his works and memorabilia, the Morgan Memorial Collection of works of the performing and creative arts, and an impressive growing collection of other art books.

Sampson County Arts Council
Dr. Victor R. Small Cultural Arts Center

Hudson Library (Fontana Regional Library System)
Special Collections at the Hudson Library consist primarily of unpublished documentation of the history of the library including administrative records, clippings from local newspapers concerning the library, and various scrapbooks, photographs and videos. The library also owns an art collection and a rare book collection including the original books that started the Hudson Library in 1884.

Bascom-Louise Gallery
The Bascom-Louise Gallery, or Highlands' Center for the Visual Arts, promotes public awareness, appreciation, and collection of the visual arts; acquires, curates, and maintains a permanent art collection; inspires and advances creative expression in the visual arts; and provides challenging experiences in the visual arts in order to educate and provide to the community a dynamic visual arts center.

Ruby City Gems
Ruby City Gems is both a store and a museum. The museum displays over 30 years of collecting specimens, artifacts, ivory carvings, and rare gems, and more: hundreds of spheres handmade from different types of stone by the founder of the store, Earnest Klatt; "The World's Largest Sapphire" weighing 385 pounds as well as one of the largest gem quality rubies found in the area (162 carats); extensive collection of pre-columbian artifacts, local arrowheads and tools. All museum sections completely free to the public and cameras are welcome.

Louisburg College
Elizabeth Tiel Faulkner Gallery
The Elizabeth Tiel Faulkner Gallery exhibits Louisburg College's permanent collection of art. Works include paintings, pottery, sculpture, and other three-dimensional and multimedia works.

Edgecombe County Cultural Arts Council
Hobson Pittman Memorial Gallery
The Hobson Pittman Memorial Gallery is maintained by the Edgecombe County Cultural Arts Council to exhibit the works of regionalist artist and Edgecombe County native Hobson Pittman (1899-1972) and other American artists. Located in the Blount-Bridgers House, the permanent collection features Pittman but includes Nineteenth and Twentieth decorative arts and paintings.

Rocky Mount Arts Center
The Rocky Mount Art Center, a Division of the City of Rocky Mount Parks and Recreation Department, provides the community a place to study, create, perform and exhibit. The Center houses a permanent collection of visual art, part of which is displayed most of the year, and also hosts a number of juried and competitive art shows, a community theater, and a variety of educational programs for children and adults in the visual and performing arts.

North Carolina Wesleyan College
Four Sisters Gallery: Celebrating the Art of the Coastal Plain
The Four Sisters Gallery is dedicated to the collection, conservation, and interpretation of regional Coastal Plain culture of contemporary visionary and self-taught art as well as historical North and South American artifacts. The Gallery serves the College, the Coastal Plain community, and the American international art community through exhibitions, loans, publications, and educational outreach in an effort to increase the awareness of the significance of such art as creative expression and the potential it has as a cultural record of our region. The Gallery was established in 1994 to preserve the Robert Lynch Collection of Outsider Art and the College's collection of pre-Columbian and historic Native American objects. In addition to these collections, the Gallery owns a significant collection of self-taught art from 1951 to the present.

Anson County Arts Council
The Anson County Arts Council seeks to enrich the cultural lives of the people of Anson County by nurturing and supporting excellence in the arts, promoting, presenting and encouraging educational activities, and increasing the community's awareness of and appreciation for the arts. This organization serves as an umbrella agency in the county assisting a variety of local art groups such as the Anson County Writers Club, Anson Memory Maker Quilters' Guild, and the Anson Children's Theatre. The Anson County Arts Council's permanent collection includes paintings, prints, and three-dimensional works acquired from yearly art shows and the Anson Arts & Heritage Festival co-sponsored by the Arts Council and the Anson County Historical Society each year.

Wayne County Public Library
Local History Room
The Wayne County Public Library Genealogy/Local History Room seeks to provide for the people of Wayne County materials covering the history and culture of Wayne County in as much depth as possible, to preserve these non-circulating materials for their use, and to provide a collection of research materials for those near and far who wish to research their family's ancestry.

Arts Council of Wayne County
The mission of the Arts Council of Wayne County is to ensure the arts are a thriving part of the Goldsboro and Wayne County community. This organization has an ever-growing permanent collection of both two- and three-dimensional works of art. The Arts Council of Wayne County also sponsors music and performing arts programs and encourages public participation in all forms of art.

Arts Council of the Lower Cape Fear
The Arts Council of the Lower Cape Fear seeks to provide the link between the arts and the community, which will enhance participation in the arts for the enrichment of the region.

Thalian Hall
Thalian Hall is an 1858 Italianate theater designed by 19th Century architect John Montague. This theater is the only remaining example of his work. Thalian Hall has continually operated since its construction serving the city of Wilmington in the past and present as a center for the performing arts, for the county and municipal governments, and for the use and enjoyment of the public. The theater building is an historic landmark, and its Archives houses a great many records, photographs, and artifacts documenting the history of 18th, 19th, and early 20th century theater as well as Thalian Hall itself.

Caswell Council for the Arts
The Caswell Council for the Arts sponsors and encourages cultural education and activities in Caswell County and surrounding areas in order to increase arts awareness, educate the citizenry, provide positive opportunities for exposure to the arts, and nurture local creative expression. As one part of this mission, the Caswell Council for the Arts collects visual art pieces that are exhibited in their Caswell County Civic Center offices and gallery spaces and in local public buildings. Works in this permanent collection include pieces by Caswell County natives Maud Gatewood and Louella Vernon.

Caswell County Historical Association, Inc.
Richmond-Miles History Museum
Organized in 1956, the Caswell County Historical Association (CCHA) owns and operates the Richmond-Miles History Museum in the Graves-Florance-Gatewood House (former home of artist Maud Gatewood) in Yanceyville, North Carolina. The CCHA promotes the study of local history and genealogy, the collection and interpretation of local historical artifacts, and the preservation of local historical structures.

Piedmont Community College
Learning Resources Center
Special Collections at SPCC LRC consist of the Linn Garibaldi Collection, the Frank Clark Collection, and the College History Collection. Linn Garibaldi was the first president of the Board of Directors when the school was Anson Tech in 1963. Frank Clark was a local land surveyor in the 1940's and 1950's.

Burke Arts Council
The Burke Arts Council, founded in 1975, is located in the former Burke County jailhouse and features several galleries and educational facilities. The Jailhouse Gallery focuses on visual arts of the southern Appalachian region and frequently rotates local art exhibits. The council maintains a small permanent collection of paintings, pottery and glass, most of which is on display throughout the community.

Caldwell Arts Council
The purpose of the Caldwell Arts Council is to establish and maintain an awareness and appreciation of cultural arts in Caldwell County. At the Caldwell Arts Council facility, gallery installations and their accompanying virtual exhibits expose local art to a wide and diverse audience. A permanent collection of outdoor sculpture can be viewed in prominent spaces throughout the county, but particularly around Lenoir.

Partnership for the Sounds
Roanoke-Cashie River Center
The Partnership for the Sounds seeks to promote sustainable, community driven economic well-being and stewardship in the Albemarle-Pamlico Region through environmental education and nature-based and cultural tourism. Specifically, the Roanoke-Cashie River Center features a natural area and park with a boardwalk and canoe/small boat access to the Cashie River on the premises, an amphitheater for special events, exhibits of historical artifacts, science and nature displays, and educational programming on the history, heritage, and natural resources of the Roanoke and Cashie River area.