North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, North Carolina, United States
4.5 (2.318 reviews) Saturday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Spent 2-3 hours Ranking #2 in Raleigh Natural History Museums • Science Museums
A treasure
The Southeast's largest natural history museum features dinosaurs, whale skeletons, live animals, walk-through dioramas, special exhibits, hands-on science education and accessible scientists. IMLS National Medal Finalist, 2014.
Address
11 West Jones Street, Raleigh, NC 27601-1029
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Website
http://naturalsciences.org/
Working hours
Monday :
Tuesday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Current local date and time now
Saturday, May 04, 2024, 22:32
User Ratings
4.5 based on (2.318 reviews)
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Reviews
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5FloridaMomOfTeens 5:00 PM Mar 5, 2022
Fantastic Special Exhibit!
We were passing through town and visited this museum specifically to see the "Exquisite Creatures" exhibit which was amazing!! Definitely recommend seeing it before it closes in a couple weeks. After we toured the special exhibit, we meandered through the remainder of the museum. It's well-done and would certainly appeal to children and families. We especially enjoyed the dinosaur section!
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5Ddan7777 5:00 PM Jun 21, 2022
good museum, movie we saw could have been more interesting
We had a bunch of smaller kids with us, so we had tried to go the Marbles Kid's Museum. However, you need a reservation to get into Marbles and when we arrived, Marbles was fully booked, unfortunately. So, we walked around and found this museum. The Museum of Natural Sciences is nice. There are lots of displays of dinosaurs as well as displays of currently-alive animals in their natural habitat. We saw the movie in the theater about animals in the wild. The movie was just OK, nothing special (and the theater, for some reason, was not air conditioned). Overall, a good, but not great, natural science museum.
