LATEST MUSEUM NEWS
Join us and Burning Coal Theatre Company the weekend of October 28-30th for a trip through time! Now in its fourth year, Burning Coal returns to the museum to explore our city's history through the entertaining medium of theatre.
Streets & Alleys, an original play by Oakwood author Ian Finley and Rebecca Wyrick, begins at the museum and will visit sites along Fayetteville and Wilmington Streets. Along the way, audiences will pass through 200 years of Raleigh’s history, from the civil rights protests of the 1950s, to the very founding of the city in 1792. Stories of comical pickpockets, ghostly murderers, and buried treasure make this a Halloween treat for the whole family.
Performances are Friday & Saturday, October 28th & 29th at 6:30pm and 6:50pm and Sunday, October 30th at 2:00pm and 2:20pm.
Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students. To purchase, please call (919)834-4001.
Nature Unleashed: Natural Disasters in Raleigh
Now Open!
Learn about Raleigh's weather-related catastrophes in the museum's newest exhibit. "Nature Unleashed" covers specific weather phenomenon and explores how our community has predicted, dealt with, and recovered from natural disasters such as hurricanes, blizzards, and fires.
In addition to historic information and photographs from the past, the exhibit highlights a much more recent weather event, the April 2011 tornadoes.
Nature Unleashed: Natural Disasters in Raleigh is on view through December 2011.
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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