SciRen event at the Museum. Photo by Eric Johnson/UNC.

Museum hosts Educator Open House, September 9

September 1, 2016

RALEIGH — Educators, have you ever wondered how estuaries breathe, and why fish sometimes can’t? Or wanted to learn what lives on your skin, and the cool adaptations that enable them to do so? Then you’re invited to visit the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences on Friday, September 9 from 5:30 to 9:00 p.m.,… Read More >


Praying Mantis close-up. Photo by Stan Lewis.

“Up Close and Personal: The Beauty of Tiny Insects,” photography by Stan Lewis, opens September 2 at the Nature Art Gallery

RALEIGH — “Up Close and Personal: The Beauty of Tiny Insects,” photography by Stan Lewis, opens at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ Nature Art Gallery on Friday, September 2 and runs through Sunday, October 2. A Gallery reception will be held for Lewis on Saturday, September 3 from 2 to 4 p.m. Lewis,… Read More >


Final Fridays

Museum’s new Final Fridays program explores intersection of science and cinema, begins Aug. 26

August 11, 2016

RALEIGH — Friday night programming at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is back with new movies, programs, food, and a new name — Final Fridays! Do zombies exist? Are there really 40-foot-long anacondas? Did old sci-fi movies get anything right about the 21st Century? On Final Fridays, you’re invited to come explore the… Read More >


Painting by Rosalynn Villaescusa.

Nature Art Gallery presents Under The Microscope, artwork by Rosalynn Villaescusa, now through August 28

August 8, 2016

RALEIGH — The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ Nature Art Gallery is currently featuring the artwork of North Carolina artist Rosalynn Villaescusa now through Sunday, August 28. The paintings included in Under the Microscope were completed in 2010.  Each oil painting was completed by observing magnified insects. Using the intricate detail in their forms… Read More >


Accessibility and Sensory-friendly Night graphic

Museum hosts its first Accessibility and Sensory-Friendly Night for families with special needs, August 11

August 2, 2016

RALEIGH — Nearly 13 percent of North Carolinians have some form of disability and the Autism Society of North Carolina estimates that 1 in 68 children born today has some form of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Because the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is dedicated to making education equal for all and removing the barriers… Read More >