Ackland Art Museum

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Art

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Carrboro, 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.

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.