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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
Let Us March On: Raleigh's Journey
Toward Civil Rights
Re-opening February 2012
The Raleigh City Museum is proud to announce the opening of our re-designed exhibit, Let Us March On: Raleigh’s Journey Toward Civil Rights!
Featuring colorful graphics, new photographs, and updated information, Let Us March On explores our city’s struggle against racial inequality from 1930-1970, focusing on how local individuals made a difference—fighting to desegregate public schools, participating in sit-ins and protest marches, or joining with their neighbors against racism.
One of the museum’s core displays, the original exhibit opened in 2001. Outdated information and a tired design called for an extensive redo.
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.
Join us during for one of our many events celebrating the re-opening!
On First Friday, February 3rd, the public is invited for a Grand Opening Celebration from 6-9pm. Entertainment and libations will kick off the exhibit re-design with a blast!
At 2pm on Saturday, February 4th, the museum and Jack and Jill of America, Raleigh-Wake Chapter welcome Randy Shepard, co-founder and Founding Artistic Director of the Martin Luther King Jr. All-Children’s Choir of Raleigh, Joe Holt, and Vinita LaVerne Lane for an educational program on the music of the Civil Rights movement. Gain a unique persepective of the movement via one of the most emotional connections in our lives- music and song. Do not miss out on this once-only opportunity!
Sunday, February 5th, we will be open for viewing by Church members from 12-2pm, and from February 6th-February 10th, we will be hosting local universities’ students and staff for evening receptions.
Saturday, February 18th, at 2pm, meet Joe Holt, the first African American student to try to integrate the Wake County Public School system. Mr. Holt will share his documentary, “Exhausted Remedies: Joe Holt’s Story” and hold a Q&A session with museum guests.
Saturday, February 25th, the museum welcomes children’s author Kelly Starling Lyons from 1-2:30pm. Ms. Lyons has published two books: NEATE: Eddie’s Ordeal and One Million Men and Me. Her two forthcoming titles, Ellen’s Broom and Tea Cakes for Tosh, continue to explore African-American history and family relationships.
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 (www.librarything.com) 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 go out to Lilly’s Pizza for generously providing lunch for our catalogers!
Your Place is by his Side: World War I Posters in Raleigh
Now Open!
The Raleigh City Museum's latest exhibit, Your Place is by His Side, uses colorful propaganda posters and artifacts to explore Raleigh's World War I contributions. In an era without television, poster art galvanized a nation--today, these images continue to inspire. Come learn how local men, women, businesses, and volunteer organizations pitched in to do their part.
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.
Thanks to everyone who came out for The Edward McKay Used Books & More Artist and Author Series at Hopscotch!
We were honored to host the music festival's series of discussion panels, featuring three days of amazing participants and conversation!
Thanks to Edward McKay Used Books & More and Hopscotch for organizing this event-hope to see you next year!
Time Warp 2011
Time Warp was a great success! Thank you to all of our sponsors, members, and guests. Your continued support allows our museum to operate and thereby continue to remember Raleigh's past, document its present, and anticipate its future.
Photos from the night's festivities can be found here.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH: IN LIFE AND LEGEND
Book now 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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