North Carolina Science Museums

If you love science then be sure to use this, our one-stop guide to NC science museums. If you’d like to learn a bit more about astronomy, biology, meteorology, physics and more then a science museum in North Carolina is the best place to go. You’ll find the finest museums of science NC has to offer.

 

This information excerpted from the Fun North Carolina website at: https://www.funnorthcarolina.com/?/category/science-museums-north-carolina

Note: some museums no longer exist and are marked as such below. Some museum names have changed and are updated below. The URLs for some museum websites have changed; they are updated below; most to update support for the https:// secure protocol.

 

 

Cape Fear Museum of History and Science

New: 910-798-4370

814 Market Street, Wilmington, NC 28401

https://www.capefearmuseum.com

 

 

 

 

Charlotte Nature Museum – now named The Nature Campaign, Discovery Place Museum

New: 704-286-8302

1658 Sterling Road, Charlotte, NC 28209

https://naturecampaign.org/

 

 

 

 

Catawba Science Center

828-322-8169

243 3rd Avenue NE, Hickory, NC 28603

https://catawbascience.org/

 

 

 

 

Museum of Natural Sciences

919-707-9800

11 West Jones Street, Raleigh, NC 27601

https://naturalsciences.org/

 

 

 

 

Discovery Place

704-372-6261

301 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28202

https://discoveryplace.org/

 

 

 

 

Discovery Place Kids

910-997-5266

233 East Washington Street, Rockingham, NC 28379

https://discoveryplacekids.org/

 

 

 

 

SciWorks

336-767-6730

400 West Hanes Mill Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27105

https://www.sciworks.org/

 

 

 

 

Carolina Raptor Center

704-875-6521

6000 Sample Road, Huntersville, NC 28078

https://carolinaraptorcenter.org/

 

 

 

 

Highlands Biological Station

828-526-2602

580 or 265 North Sixth Street , Highlands, NC 28741

https://highlandsbiological.org/

 

 

 

The Health Adventure – museum not found

 

 

Morehead Planetarium and Science Center

919-962 – 1236

CB #3480, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

https://moreheadplanetarium.org/

 

 

 

 

Ingram Planetarium

910-575-0033

7625 High Market Street, Sunset Beach, NC 28468

https://museumplanetarium.org/

 

 

 

 

Imagination Station

252-291-5113

224 East Nash Street, Wilson, NC 27893

https://scienceandhistory.org/ – web address updated

 

 

 

 

Colburn Earth Science Museum

828-254-7162

2 South Pack Square, Asheville, North Carolina 28801

https://colburnmuseum.wordpress.com/