Join us at the Museum for an evening of “Tiny Giants” and singing mice
January 12, 2016
Raleigh — The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences hosts an evening of extreme proportions featuring a special screening of “Tiny Giants 3D” in the Museum’s WRAL-3D Theater on Thursday, January 21, 7:30 p.m. “Tiny Giants” won Best Immersive film at the 2015 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. This extended, 40-minute version includes 20-minutes of additional… Read More >
Museum hosts “Your Body by Darwin,” a look at the role of evolution in health and medicine
January 5, 2016
RALEIGH — Doctors often work to cure our ills as if we are malfunctioning machines and they are teams of skilled mechanics. But the human body is not a machine — it is a bundle of living material that has been produced over millennia through evolution by natural selection. Join author Jeremy Taylor for a… Read More >
Rangers present virtual tour of North Carolina State Parks at Museum
December 30, 2015
Presentation will help launch 2016 centennial celebration RALEIGH – A virtual tour of all North Carolina state parks – through the eyes of park rangers and their coworkers – will debut in a theater setting as part of the launch of the state parks 2016 centennial celebration, according to the NC Division of Parks and… Read More >
Join the search for life beyond Earth at Museum’s Astronomy Days
December 18, 2015
There are a trillion planets in the Milky Way, so it’s hard to believe we’re alone. The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences invites you to join them in the search for life beyond Earth during this year’s Astronomy Days, taking place Saturday, January 30, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. and Sunday, January 31, noon–5 p.m. Special… Read More >
“Forging a Sustainable Future” — Museum hosts Town Hall featuring Greg Fishel plus United Nations, White House and Museum experts
December 15, 2015
RALEIGH — Apollo’s 1969 photographs of the blue-green Earth with its wafer-thin atmosphere and nighttime sparkle of city lights have become among the world’s most evocative images. They stimulated the environmental stewardship movement and influenced the designation of this latest moment in Earth history as the Anthropocene to highlight, and try to mitigate, the cumulative… Read More >