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Ackland Art Museum
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Art

Chapel Hill Preservation Society
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Art, History

House Museum located in (ca. l840-l885) Horace Williams House..

Morehead Planetarium
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Planetarium, Science

First major planetarium on a university campus and the first Plantarium in the South. NASA training facility for Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Skylab astronauts.

North Carolina Collection Gallery
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Art, Culture, History, Library, Natural History, University

A public service of the North Carolina Collection, the Gallery is located on the second floor of the Louis Round Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Gallery, which opened in December, 1989, is part of a long history at UNC of utilizing museum objects as educational tools. Over two centuries ago, in 1795, the university's board of trustees appointed the school's first "keeper of the museum," Charles Wilson Harris. Harris was a native of Cabarrus County, N.C., and recent graduate of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton). As keeper, he began to assemble at UNC a collection of artifacts and natural-history specimens, displaying them in his "cabinet of curios" for students and visitors to the small, new campus.

Carolina Union Activities Board, University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Art, University

Main gallery in student union is l00 feet x 20 feet for changing exhibitions

Dean E. Smith Center
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

History

The Smith Center is home to Carolina athletics and the site of the University of North Carolina's home basketball games. A memorabilia room housing artifacts and trophies from Carolina's rich athletic tradition is located on the 2nd floor of the center

N.C. Botanical Garden
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Botanical Garden, Science

Native plant habitat collection. Public programs and exhibits offered.

MUSEUM CONFERENCES

Oregon Museum Association 2024 Conference

September 8, 2024 - September 10, 2025

North Bend, Oregon

2025 California Association of Museums Conference

February 18 - 22, 2025

San Fransico, California

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