ncmuseums

An occasional list of exhibits, programs, and events at North Carolina museums. Sponsored by the North Carolina Museums Council.

Monday, March 23, 2015

NCMC Events From Around the State… March 23, 2015



1). NCMC Art Section Nominations Needed!  We are currently seeking nominations for Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary of the NCMC Art Section.  Please feel free to nominate yourself or a colleague for a specific position by emailing Denise Drury Homewood, art section chair, at artsection@ncmuseums.org.

2). The Battleship NORTH CAROLINA (www.battleshipnc.com) invites you to a Battleship Easter Egg Hunt Carnival on Friday, April 3rd from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. (last ticket sold at 1:00 p.m.). Hippity Hoppity down the Battleship trail for a fun Spring event with continuous games and egg hunts throughout the day. Make sure to bring your camera and take pictures with Buddy the Battleship Bunny. Offered again this year is a slower paced hunt area for kids who need a less stressful environment or for children with special needs who choose a slower paced environment.  Admission for the Easter Egg Hunt Carnival is only $5 per person, kids 2 and under are free. We've talked with the Easter Bunny and he told us that he has even more surprises this year. Stay tuned as the eggs and festivities hop out of the basket. This event is weather dependent. The Battleship NORTH CAROLINA would like to thank Sunny 104.5 for their sponsorship of this event.

3). New Winston Museum (www.newwinston.org) will host “The Winston-Salem Medicis,” a conversation with local artist and former director of Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Nicholas Burton Bragg on Thursday, March 26th at 5:30 p.m. Current Reynolda House Programming Director, Phil Archer. Dr. Mike Wakeford, Division of Liberal Arts faculty at UNC School of the Arts, will moderate. The discussion will give insight into the role that members of tobacco and textile industry families played in supporting regional arts and philanthropy. The speakers will compare local endeavors with similar philanthropic efforts taking place in early 20th Century America.  This event is part of New Winston Museum’s 2015 Salon Series calendar. The series continues on next month with the focus of Medicine. This event is free and open to the public. For more information contact the Museum at 336.724.2842 or info@newwinston.org.

4). The Mount Airy Museum of Regional History (www.northcarolinamuseum.org) presents the fifth program in a sports related series of History Talks: North Carolina Humanities Council’s Hometown Teams statewide scholar, Pamela Grundy with “Back Then, That Was the Thing To Do” North Carolina’s Women’s Basketball  at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 28th.  This program will be held on the 3rd floor of the museum and is Free to the public.  Also on this morning will be the Easter Bonnet/Hat workshop, Parade and Egg Hunt from 10-11:30 a.m. for ages 4-11. Museum members are Free, $5 for non-members.  Workshop will be held in the 2nd floor classroom.

5). Greensboro Historical Museum (www.GreensboroHistory.org) is excited to announce that the Emancipation Proclamation is coming to the Museum. On Saturday, March 28th the Greensboro Historical Museum is opening its new exhibition, Emancipation Proclamation: Voices to Freedom. Visitors will follow a path through Greensboro’s history that includes powerful stories of 300 years of African American experience seeking liberty and freedom. The highlight of this four week exhibition is a Leland-Boker 1864 edition of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln, on loan from the Lincoln Foundation Collection of the Indiana State Museum. The Lincoln Financial Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Lincoln Financial Group, has arranged for this rare document and other Lincoln artifacts, including an inkwell and Matthew Brady images from the Lincoln family album, to be loaned to the Museum. The exhibit will include several special programs throughout its visit. Admission to all programs is free, but reservations are highly recommended. To see the complete program calendar or to make reservations, please call (336) 373-2982 or go to www.GreensboroHistory.org.  This special exhibit will be on display until Sunday, April 26th. Admission is free.

6). Hands On! (www.handsonwnc.org), a Child's Gallery in Hendersonville, will host NanoDays Kick-off Celebration on Friday, March 27th, and continue with nano exhibits and activities Tuesday, March 31-Friday, April 3rd. NanoDays at Hands On! is part of a nationwide festival of educational programs about nanoscale science and engineering. NanoDays events combine fun hands-on activities with presentations on current research. A range of exciting NanoDays programs demonstrate the special and unexpected properties found at the nanoscale, examine tools used by nanoscientists, showcase nano materials with spectacular promise, and invite discussion of technology and society. Visitors can experience the power of science fiction storytelling—creating their own imagined future full of new nanotechnologies. Hands-on activities invite visitors to explore polarized light, investigate how scientists use special tools to study tiny things, and imagine how nanotechnology could change how we eat! Other activities include experimenting with heat transfer and completing an electrical circuit using the world’s thinnest material. Learn more by visiting www.handsonwnc.org.

7). The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum (www.ncmaritimemuseums.com) will host the 2015 Underwater Heritage Symposium which will showcase significant members of the diving community. The symposium will take place on April 10th & 11th from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  During the two-day symposium, The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum will formally honor several divers who have impacted their profession through their passion for diving, documenting shipwrecks, lecturing and authoring books on their experiences, and mentoring new divers in the field.  Join The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum as they explore our underwater heritage through presentations by twelve dive professionals, view artifacts from a private collection, meet the experts, hear about their amazing adventures, and have books signed at this exciting event.  For more information, call 252-986-2995, email maryellen.riddle@ncdcr.gov, or visit www.ncmaritimemuseums.com. The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum is located at 59200 Museum Dr., Hatteras, NC 27943.  From April through mid-October, hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.  From mid-October through March, hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

8). Spencer Doll & Toy Museum (www.SpencerDollandToyMuseum.com) invites you to the Antiques Appraisal Fair (Roadshow Style) on March 27th and 28th from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. both days.  Antiques dealer Michael Hanson will take a look at your items and will offer advice and information regarding a broad spectrum of general merchandise including toys. Bring in your family heirlooms and yard sale bargains to find out the fascinating truths about these finds! Cost is $5.00 per item. Limit 2 items per person. Members receive 2 free appraisals annually. To become a member, call 704-762-9359.

9). The Asheville Art Museum (www.ashevilleart.org) is pleased to present its latest exhibit, Keep All You Wish: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum.  Inside or outside his photo studio, Mangum created an atmosphere –respectful and often playful – in which hundreds of men, women and children genuinely revealed themselves. Keep All You Wish features a selection of images of early 20th century Southern society that show personalities as immediate as if they were taken yesterday. Although the early 20th century American South in which he worked was marked by disenfranchisement, segregation and inequality – between black and white, men and women, rich and poor – Mangum portrayed all of his sitters with candor, humor and spirit. Above all, he showed them as individuals. Each client appears as valuable as the next, no story less significant. Keep All You Wish will be on display until July 12th.

10). The High Point Museum (www.highpointmuseum.org) invites you to make Easter Eggs with natural dyes on Saturday, March 28th from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  Get ready for the Easter Bunny! We’ll provide eggs you can dip in dyes made from plant material, like onionskins and blueberries. All ages welcome. $1 per egg. Limit 2 eggs per person. Free for Historical Society members. Drop in!   Also on Saturday, March 28th, stop by to see a Blacksmith Demonstration anytime between 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  All ages welcome. FREE. For more information on these events call 885-1859 or visit www.highpointmuseum.org.

Monday, March 16, 2015

NCMC Events From Around the State… March 16, 2015



1). NCMC Art Section Nominations Needed!  We are currently seeking nominations for Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary of the NCMC Art Section.  Please feel free to nominate yourself or a colleague for a specific position by emailing Denise Drury Homewood, art section chair, at artsection@ncmuseums.org.

2). Page-Walker in Cary (www.friendsofpagewalker.org) invites you to Preserving America’s Memories: Film, TV and Sound at the Library of Congress on Monday, March 23rd at 7:30 p.m. at the Cary Theater.  The Packard Campus Audio Visual Conservation Center is a state-of-the-art facility where the Library of Congress acquires, preserves and provides access to the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of films, television programs, radio broadcasts, and sound recordings. Paul R. Klamer, Video Lab Supervisor, will share “behind the scenes” information on how these unique American cultural treasures are preserved and restored.  For more information on this free lecture, visit www.friendsofpagewalker.org or call (919) 460-4963.

3). The Mount Airy Museum of Regional History (www.northcarolinamuseum.org) presents NASCAR, Dirt Track History, NASCAR Racers Roundtable and History Talks all in one day on Saturday, March 21st! At 10 a.m. NASCAR Hall of Fame historian Buz McKim will discuss the history of NASCAR; at 11 a.m.  Dan Pierce author of “The Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay and Big Bill France” will talk about early dirt track racing and NASCAR; at 12noon Buz McKim will moderate the NASCAR Racers Roundtable featuring 2015 Hall of Fame inductee Rex White; and at 2 p.m. History Talks: Doug McDaniel presents “A Statistical History of the Mount Airy High School Football Program.”  All of these events will be held on the 3rd floor of the museum and are FREE to the public.

4). The High Point Museum Guild (www.highpointmuseum.org) is pleased to have Bernie Mann, owner and publisher of Our State, speak at its March monthly meeting. The meeting will be held Wednesday, March 18th at 10 a.m. at the High Point Museum. Our State magazine is North Carolina’s premiere travel, history and culture publication. The Museum Guild welcomes new members to join and support the High Point Museum. Annual dues are $25 which helps to fund wonderful programs which are free except for the field trips as well as other Museum projects and exhibits. To learn more about this event, call 885-1859 or visit www.highpointmuseum.org.   

5). Hands On! (www.handsonwnc.org), a Child's Gallery in Hendersonville, invites you to Switcheroo Zoo! on Wednesday, March 18 through Friday, March 20. If you ran the zoo, what kind of animals would you engineer? Create real & imaginary animals in our switcheroo zoo. This self-directed activity is available all day for all ages in our Party Room. This new program is free with $5 admission/free for members and is generously sponsored by Etowah Valley Veterninary Hospital. For additional information about Hands On! educational programs and facility, please visit their website at www.handsonwnc.org or call 828-697-8333.

6). The Asheville Art Museum (www.ashevilleart.org) is pleased to present its latest exhibit, Keep All You Wish: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum.  Inside or outside his photo studio, Mangum created an atmosphere –respectful and often playful – in which hundreds of men, women and children genuinely revealed themselves. Keep All You Wish features a selection of images of early 20th century Southern society that show personalities as immediate as if they were taken yesterday. Although the early 20th century American South in which he worked was marked by disenfranchisement, segregation and inequality – between black and white, men and women, rich and poor – Mangum portrayed all of his sitters with candor, humor and spirit. Above all, he showed them as individuals. Each client appears as valuable as the next, no story less significant. Keep All You Wish will be on display until July 12th.

7). Museum of Anthropology, Wake Forest University (http://moa.wfu.edu) invites the public to the lecture Inscribing the Present:  The Semiotic Reoccupation of Cherokee Country on Wednesday, March 18th  at 7:00 p.m.  Drawing on collaborative work with Tom Belt and Hartwell Francis of Western Carolina University's Cherokee Language Program, Dr. Margaret Bender, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Wake Forest University, will discuss several ways in which contemporary assertions of Cherokee culture--including the promotion of traditional language-based pregnancy and birthing practices, the reclamation of sacred and historic sites along the Tuckaseegee River, tattooing, and the defiance of an attempt by Facebook to prohibit use of the Cherokee syllabary--are physically and visually remaking Cherokee bodies and Cherokee landscape.  Admission is free.

8). North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (www.naturalsciences.org) invites you to visit them on Wednesday, March 18th at 7 p.m., for a special presentation by Paul Bogard titled “The End of Night.” Bogard seeks to restore awareness of the spectacularly primal, wildly dark night sky and show how it has influenced the human experience across everything from science to art. This special program will be held in the main auditorium and is free to the public.

9). SECCA (www.secca.org) invites you to the 2015 Connectivity Gala on Friday, March 20th at 6:00 p.m.  You won't want to miss the best event in town! Join SECCA for an inspiring evening with southern, national, and international artists that imagine and build new forms of collectivity and connectivity. This lively event will include hors d’oeuvres and a sit down dinner, along with entertainment by UNCSA School of Dance. Buy your tickets now at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/secca-connectivity-gala-tickets-15733498317.

10). Museum of the Albemarle (www.museumofthealbemarle.com) and Serenity Arts Studio invites you to Paint and Cookie:  Sunny Sky and Colorful Kite on Friday, March 20th from 4-5:30 p.m. at the Museum of the Albemarle.  The Museum and Serenity Studio Arts will join forces in creating a mixed-media canvas for April’s First Friday Art Walk.    School age participants will paint a kite.  The masterpieces created by participants during the workshop will be highlighted at Serenity Studio Arts, 601 East Main Street, on Friday, April 3, 2015 from 5:30 – 7 p.m. at First Friday Art Walk.  Limited space and supply fee. For More Information Call 252-335-1453.

Monday, March 02, 2015

NCMC Events From Around the State… March 2, 2015


1). The High Point Museum (www.highpointmuseum.org) announces the showing of High Point: A Memoir of the African American Community on Saturday, March 7th at 10:30 a.m. The documentary is presented by Yalik's Modern Art and Custom Media Solutions Production. High Point Museum, located at 1859 E. Lexington Ave. For more information, call 885-1859 or visit our website www.highpointmuseum.org.   

2). Cowan Museum of History and Science (www.cowanmuseum.org) presents “Old Rocks, Young Minds,” February 13 – April 13, 2015, an exhibit developed by students of the Duplin Early College High School and James Kenan High School. The show explores the layered evidence of the earth’s rocks, minerals, and fossils, which can be read almost like pages in a book when one understands the different types of rocks and how they form and continually change. Visitors may make their own fossil impression to take home. The Museum is open Tue. – Sat., 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Admission is free.

3). The Mount Airy Museum of Regional History (www.northcarolinamuseum.org) presents the second program in a sports related series of History Talks: Mike Wiley in “A Game Apart – A glimpse into the life of Jackie Robinson” on Saturday, March 7th at 2 p.m.   This sports History Talks series will be held on Saturdays during the Smithsonian exhibition of Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America.  For more information, visit www.northcarolinamuseum.org.    All History Talks are FREE to the public.  Also happening this weekend at the Museum, the first of two Batik Easter Egg Workshops for adults. This first workshop will take place on Saturday, March 7th from 1-4 p.m. The second workshop will be on Saturday, March 21st.  $10 for museum members, $15 for non-members.  Preregistration is required.  Call 336-786-4478.

4). The Museum of the Albemarle (www.museumofthealbemarle.com) invites you to have history for lunch!  Their next History for Lunch program is Wednesday, March 4th at 12:15 p.m. and will be presented by Dr. Glen Bowman on “A Look Back to 1915: Prominent African-American Baptist Educators from northeastern North Carolina.”  Dr. Bowman’s presentation will address Calvin Scott (C.S.) Brown and Waters Normal Institute, which he founded in Winton; Peter Weddick (P.W.) Moore, founding principal of the Elizabeth City State Colored Normal School (in 1915 called State Normal School, now Elizabeth City State University), and Elizabeth City’s Roanoke Institute, which was founded as a private secondary school in 1896 on what is today Roanoke Avenue.  This presentations will be supported by photos and documents that were located at the North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh, the Jackson Davis Papers at the University of Virginia, and the Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill.   This is a free program.  For more information call 252-335-1453.

5). Kings Mountain Historical Museum (www.kingsmountainmuseum.org) invites you to celebrate National Women’s History Month in March with a riveting program by award-winning author, storyteller, and Road Scholar Randell Jones. “Famous and Infamous Women of North Carolina” lecture & book signing by Randell Jones, will take place on Wednesday, March 4 at 6:00 p.m.  North Carolina has been home to many notable women who have made their mark on history.  This program will draw audiences into extraordinary and fascinating tales about some of these women, including a child bride, a Confederate soldier, a pirate, and a pioneering parachutist. This will be the second program in Kings Mountain Historical Museum’s 2015 Women’s History Lecture Series, in conjunction with their new Pioneering Women of Cleveland County exhibit.  The exhibit is open Tuesdays - Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 pm, from now until May 23rd.

6). The Matthews Heritage Museum (www.matthewsheritagemuseum.org) announces its next exhibit, Widgets and Thing-a-ma-Jigs: An Exhibit of the Mostly Unknown.  It will be on display until April 18, 2015.  Have you ever come across an object and didn’t know what it is?  A tool from another time, no longer used by the general public?  Well, The Matthews Heritage Museum has a whole exhibit of items that might stump even antique lovers!  We hope you can learn about some of these tools of yesteryear and come to recognize some useful utensils with which our ancestors were familiar.  The items will be on display without benefit of a label in order to challenge your knowledge.  However, a key with a description of each item and how it was used will be provided for those interested.  Those guessing all items correctly will be entered into a drawing from which one will be chosen to receive a free membership to the Matthews Historical Foundation for a year that includes free entrance to the museum among other benefits. This is an excellent exhibit for school children, home schoolers, scouts and senior groups.  Matthews Heritage Museum is open to the public Thursday – Saturday from 10 to 4:30.  A small admission fee is charged.  Children under 10 are free.  The first Saturday of every month is Free for all.

7). The Asheville Art Museum (www.ashevilleart.org) is thrilled to be hosting an exciting lecture on landscape architecture on Thursday, March 5th, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the Diana Wortham Theatre. The lecture will illustrate the role landscape architecture plays to reveal, frame, and sustain the powerful forces of ecology and culture that shape our world. This event is FREE for Museum members and students with ID, but you must call the Museum at 828-253-3227 to RSVP for the event. Non-member tickets are $5 and may be purchased online at www.ashevilleart.org or by calling the Museum.

8). Joel Lane Museum House (www.joellane.org) is proud to present a lecture by Mike Helms, "Evolution of Firearms from the Late 1700s to the Civil War " on Thursday, March 5th at 7 p.m. Admission will be $16 for the general public and $11 for members of the Joel Lane Historical Society. Refreshments will be served. Seating is limited, and advanced payment is required. Please visit Eventbrite.com to purchase tickets. Be sure to include the names of all in your party; nametags will serve as tickets. Tickets are non-refundable unless we must cancel the event.  For more information: tel: (919) 833-3431; email: joellane@bellsouth.net; Website: www.joellane.org

9). Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum (www.ncmaritimemuseums.com) announces On Stage: The Suloide, Door Handle and Plate, March 1st – 31st. The Suloide met its fate March 26, 1943 off Bogue Banks. The transport steamship was loaded with manganese and on its way to New York. Visit the Museum to see a door handle and plate from the vessel, and discover why it never made it to its destination.  For more information, call the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum at 252-986-2995 or visit www.ncmaritimemuseums.com. Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum, 59200 Museum Drive, Hatteras, N.C. 27943.

10). New Winston Museum (www.newwinston.org) invites you to come out on Thursday, March 5th at 5:30 p.m. for “Tobacco Unionism and Civil Rights”. Local expert Will Cox and former State Senator, Earline Parmon, will discuss the links between Winston-Salem’s tobacco Unionism and the growth of political & Civil Rights activism that followed.  Event is free and open to the public. Overflow parking is available at the Old Salem Visitors Center and on Marshall Street. For more information please visit our Web site at www.newwinston.org or call 336.724.2842 ext. 101.  Admission to the New Winston Museum is free; Donations are greatly appreciated.