North Carolina Museum of History, 5 East Edenton Street in Raleigh, is free to visit. It’s open every day, with the following exceptions:

Closed New Year’s Day, Easter, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.

Monday–Saturday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday: 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Current Exhibits

• Quilt-Speak: Uncovering Women’s Voices Through Quilts
• One Giant Leap: North Carolina and the Space Race
• Freedom! A Promise Disrupted: North Carolina, 1862-1901
• The Story of North Carolina
• 1920s Drugstore
• North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame
• History in Every Direction: Tar Heel Junior Historian Association Discovery Gallery
• History of the Harvest
• David Marshall “Carbine” Williams
• Meet the Statues

The museum hosts a number of events every month. You can see the full list here. Some are free and some have a fee.

Here are some upcoming events:

Summer Storytime: Salt in His Shoes
Thursday, July 18th, 2019
10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Free

Follow a staff member from the information desk to the Sports Hall of Fame gallery so you can look around and listen to Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream, by Jordan’s mother and sister.

Ages 3 and up (with adult)

One Giant Leap Festival
Saturday, July 20th, 2019
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Free

BICENTENNIAL PLAZA

No Gravity │Bungee Jump Station
Science on Your Street│Morehead Planetarium
Create Your Universe│Chalk Drawing Area
Apollo 11 Virtual Reality│Learning Lab 360
CBS 17 │Official Media Sponsor for the One Giant Leap Festival
Scrap Exchange
Moon Sand Sensory Bins & Lunar Dominoes│Kid Lab
Sounds From Space│North Carolina Symphony
Solar Radiation│North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Design for Aerodynamics│Museum of Life + Science
North Carolina Space Grant
Solar Observing│Raleigh Astronomy Club
Phases of the Moon│Girl Scouts: North Carolina Coastal Pines
Apollo + Beyond│Lift Off NC
Mission Patch Demos│AB Emblem
NC Sweet Potato Commission
Museum Pop-Up Shop
Moon Stamps & Watercolor Resists│Kid Lab
Galaxy Jars
Ice Cream Social (1-2:30 pm)│North Carolina Museum of History Associates
Beer Garden│Lynnwood Brewing Concern
Food Trucks│Baguettaboutit, Fuzzy’s Empanadas, Kona Ice, MoonRunners, and STUFT.

LOBBY
Orbit Earth Expo│Sparkpoint Innovations
Indoor Observing│Raleigh Astronomy Club
Wheel of History
Apollo 16 & NASA│Brad Perry
Straw Rockets
Lunar Phases
Gallery Hunt

AUDITORIUM

11 – 11:25 am│Orbit Earth Expo, Sparkpoint Innovations
12 – 1 pm│Screening of Smithsonian Channel’s The Day We Walked on the Moon
1:30 – 1:55 pm│Orbit Earth Expo, Sparkpoint Innovations
2 – 3 pm│Screening of Smithsonian Channel’s The Day We Walked on the Moon
3:30 – 3:55 pm│Orbit Earth Expo, Sparkpoint Innovations

DEMO GALLERY
11:30 am│History of the Saturn V Rocket, Michael Keefe
1:00 pm│The Moon: Today and Tomorrow, Doug Lively
2: 30 pm│What Apollo Taught Us About Getting to Mars, Tony Rice

AND MORE
Explore North Carolina’s connections to the Space Race by visiting the North Carolina Museum of History’s One Giant Leap exhibit located on the first floor.
Check out the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science’s Astronomy & Astrophysics Research Lab during today’s Open House. Open from 12 to 4 p.m.
Want more? Scroll through space-themed events and programs happening throughout the state at liftoffnc.org.
Pose, snap, and post. Tag the North Carolina Museum of History or use #OneGiantLeapFest to share your festival experience. And be sure to take a look at Snapchat for our custom filter just for the event!

Summer Storytime: Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table
Thursday, July 25th, 2019
10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Free

Ages 3 and up (with adult)

Meet museum staff at the information desk in the lobby, then head out with us to History of the Harvest. There, we’ll look around, share a history-related story, and work on an activity!

Listen to Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, then decorate a tiny flowerpot to take home.