Press Releases

After more than 30 years in storage, four small hand-crafted dioramas from the famous Blockade Runner Museum have come home to Carolina Beach thanks to a partnership between the Friends of Fort Fisher, Inc., Town of Carolina Beach and Fort Fisher State Historic Site.

A collection of documents on revolutionary politics in North Carolina will be on display in Mattocks Hall inside the North Carolina History Center, Saturday, June 4.

This fall the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) opens Rolling Sculpture: Art Deco Cars from the 1930s and ’40s, featuring 14 cars and three motorcycles embodying the design characteristics of the art deco movement.

NASA’s Destination Station is coming to Raleigh on Friday, May 6.

Babies were torn from mothers' arms. Landslides wiped out families and homes. At least 50 people died. This was the impact of the flood of 1916 when two hurricanes collided over western North Carolina.

The CSS Neuse Civil War Interpretive Center will host a program that examines medicine during the Civil War May 7.

A new exhibit opening May 6 at the Museum of the Cape Fear will focus on chaning funerary practices.

Early documents are preserved by the State Archives will be exhibited on the first floor of the Legislative Building April 25 and 26.

An assortment of multicolored tulips and diverse spring blooms will be on display for visitors at Tryon Palace during its semi-annual Garden Lovers Weekend, April 8-10 in historic downtown New Bern.

The North Carolina Museum of Art presents two free exhibitions opening in April 2016, both featuring work by North Carolina artists.