The ARTS & HISTORY

The North Carolina Museum of Art is an art museum in Raleigh. It opened in 1956 as the first major museum collection in the country to be formed by State legislation and funding. We highly recommend visiting this museum.

Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh is a multimedia contemporary art gallery in Raleigh. CAM Raleigh has no permanent collection but offers exhibitions of works by artists with regional, national, and international recognition.

Since its opening in 2008, DPAC has become the center for live entertainment in North Carolina. Recognized for its contemporary design, DPAC features 2,700 seats, intimate sightlines and stateof- the art sound and video. hosting over 200 performances a year including spectacular touring Broadway productions, high-profile concert and comedy events, family shows and the heralded American Dance Festival.

The North Carolina Symphony calls this remarkable, 1700-seat venue home. And it’s easy to see why. This venue delivers the warmest, clearest and most immersive sound experience possible. National and international artists and performers now speak of this hall’s remarkable acoustics.

Red Hat Amphitheatre This venue is a popular spot for up-and-coming acts new to the music scene as well as larger names. With a cozy atmosphere there’s not a bad seat in the entire music venue. 

Walnut Creek Amphitheatre Is a beautiful outdoor music venue in Raleigh, North Carolina and plays host to some of the biggest bands and artists in the world. It originally opened on July 4, 1991 and was built by the City of Raleigh. The amphitheatre has a capacity of 20,000 making it an ideal venue for large summer events.

People have lived in North Carolina for more than 14,000 years! From the influences made by ancestors of today’s eight state-recognized American Indian tribes to the first attempted English settlement in the New World to our own lives in the 21st century, the Old North State has a history filled with heroes, visionaries, entrepreneurs, inventors, artists, and everyday people.Even legendary figures, such as the notorious pirate Blackbeard, First Lady Dolley Madison, adventurer Daniel Boone, Scottish heroine Flora MacDonald, Lumbee folk hero Henry Berry Lowry, educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown, evangelist Billy Graham, and basketball great Michael Jordan, have called North Carolina home over the years. At the North Carolina Museum of History, we are committed to creating a place where you can explore, learn, and enjoy programs, events, and exhibitions that celebrate North Carolina’s past, present, and future.Join us at the North Carolina Museum of History, because “History Happens Here.”

Marbles is a nonprofit children’s museum located in downtown Raleigh. Its mission is to “..spark imagination, discovery and learning through play.”

Welcome to an extraordinary resource! North Carolina’s most visited museum with one of the State’s most iconic landmarks—the SECU Daily Planet. The NC Museum of Natural Sciences is the largest institution of its kind in the South East and one of the nation’s most amazing museums about the natural world. This Museum asks four basic questions about the natural sciences—what do we know?, how do we know? what’s happening now? how can you participate?—with an integrated suite of onsite, offsite, online and outdoor experiences.