NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES – RALEIGH’S BEST MUSEUM

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Located in the heart of downtown Raleigh, the NC Museum of Natural Science is the Southeast’s largest natural history museum and the most visited of the museums in North Carolina.

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and one of the USA’s most respected museums that explores the natural world. Out of all the Raleigh museums, we suggest you start here.

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The museum actually has four facilities on three campuses, but we visited the main campus downtown that contains the Nature Exploration Center and Nature Research Center that are connected by a breezeway.

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NATURE EXPLORATION CENTER

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Coastal North Carolina Overlook

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Here you can take a trip to the beach without leaving Raleigh. Includes exhibits of fish native to North Carolina’s coast and inland waterways, and the many habitats found on the coast, including barrier islands, saltmarshes, maritime forests, and dunes.

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Mountains to the Sea

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Located in the heart of downtown Raleigh, the NC Museum of Natural Science is the Southeast’s largest natural history museum and the most visited of the museums in North Carolina.

and one of the USA’s most respected museums that explores the natural world. Out of all the Raleigh museums, we suggest you start here.

The museum actually has four facilities on three campuses, but we visited the main campus downtown that contains the Nature Exploration Center and Nature Research Center that are connected by a breezeway.

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NATURE EXPLORATION CENTER

The Nature Exploration Center (NEC) opened in 2000 as the newest home to a natural science collection that dates all the way back to 1879.

Coastal North Carolina Overlook

Here you can get up close to a Blue Whale and one of the most impressive whale skeleton collections on display in the US including a rare True’s Beaked Whale and thier signature Sperm Whale named Trouble.

Here you can take a trip to the beach without leaving Raleigh. Includes exhibits of fish native to North Carolina’s coast and inland waterways, and the many habitats found on the coast, including barrier islands, saltmarshes, maritime forests, and dunes.

Coastal North Carolina

Mountains to the Sea

Wander through exhibits displaying North Carolina’s natural habitats from the western mountains, the central Piedmont and the Coastal Plain.

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