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WELCOME TO THE RALEIGH CITY MUSEUM!
The Raleigh City Museum is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to collecting, preserving and interpreting the history of Raleigh, North Carolina's capital city.
Visitor Information
The museum is located in the historic Briggs Building at 220 Fayetteville Street in Raleigh, N.C. 27601. [MAP]
Admission is free and no tickets are required for entrance to the museum. For information, please call 919.832.3775.
LATEST MUSEUM NEWS
Made to Order: Kit Homes in Raleigh
Opening May 18th!
A drive through Raleigh’s downtown neighborhoods reveals a variety of architectural styles—from cozy bungalows to stately Colonial Revivals. Several of these homes were built by architects or speculativedevelopers, but a number of them are actually kit homes!
During the first half of the 20th century, Sears, Roebuck & Co. and a handful of other companies sold build-it-yourself homes via catalogs to customers across the nation. Raleigh was not immune to the craze. Co-curated by the museum and the Raleigh Historic Development Commission, Made to Order: Kit Homes in Raleigh will explore our city's own treasure trove of these architectural gems!
Check out this News & Observer article about phenomenon and upcoming exhibit! If you're still curious, make sure to attend kit home historian Rosemary Thornton's lecture on Raleigh's kit homes, sponsored by RHDC, at the Rialto Theatre on Saturday, May 19th at 1:30pm.
Save the Date! Time Warp is coming Wednesday, May 23rd! This year's event promises to be a gas...
Capital Canines
On Saturday, May 26th, bring your four-legged friends to the museum for a walking tour of Raleigh! From 2:00-4:00 pm, museum staff will be leading a walking tour of downtown Raleigh with stops in parks and neighborhoods along the way to explore with your dog! Join us as we explore from Moore to Nash Squares, with stops at the Executive Mansion, State Capitol building, and more!
One dog per person. Fee is $10.00 per dog or $5.00 per member dog. All dogs are to be current with vaccines and poorly behaved dogs will be asked to leave. All dogs must be leashed.
Made possible thanks to major support from the A.J. Fletcher Foundation and A. Brothers Associates, with additional support from Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Martin Street Baptist Church, Poplar Springs Christian Church, the Raleigh Chapter of Chums, and Mechanics and Farmers Bank.
Flash Mob Takes Over the Raleigh City Museum!
On January 26th the museum was mobbed by a roving band of catalogers from N.C. State Libraries! As part of their year-round community service efforts, volunteers from the Metadata & Cataloging Department at North Carolina State University Libraries came to the museum as a “flash mob” to add our book collection to LibraryThing (dancing was optional).
LibraryThing is an online book-cataloging service that is accessible from any internet connection. The N.C. State group assigned “collections” to our major topical categories and supplement those with a series of searchable “tags.” Once our collection is fully online, we plan to make our library open to public researchers so that we may continue in our mission to “preserve Raleigh’s past for the future.” Special thanks to Lilly’s Pizza for generously providing lunch for our catalogers!
For more information on the project, check out NCSU Libraries News web page!
Missed our September First Friday event? Check out this video, featuring a review of our popular one-man show, Painted Archives: New Works by Pete Sack, and a sneak peek of our newly redesigned core exhibit, Raleigh's City Flag: Lost and Found.
Special thanks to Three Post for video design and production.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH: IN LIFE AND LEGEND
Available at the Museum Store!
Sir Walter Raleigh is a figure writ large in popular imagination. Yet how can we understand this man who was soldier, voyager, visionary, courtier, politician, poet, historian, patriot and 'traitor'?
Recent research has illuminated the context of his career at the Court of Elizabeth I, while much is still to be learned about Raleigh the man. Drawing on new texts of his poems, letters and travel narratives, Nicholls and Williams use Raleigh's own writings to explore his ideas, personality, feelings and values.
No biography of Raleigh can be complete with out an assessment of his posthumous reputation. Myths that accumulated around him tell us something about the man himself, but far more about the perceptions of his own and subsequent generations.
Raleigh's talents as a writer ensured his positive legacy, but the appropriation of his legend for so many differing political uses has left us with a complex picture. Exploring how the many re-workings of Raleigh all touch on truth, Nicholls and Williams provide a new account of the life of this ever compelling figure.
-The Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
NEW ON OUR WEBSITE: We have now added a photo library of past events and programs at the museum. Click here to see who has been having fun with Raleigh history.
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