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Raleigh City Museum

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The City of Raleigh Museum is a local history museum associated with Raleigh, North Carolina. The museum is located in the historic Briggs Hardware Building on Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh and has a number of exhibits and programs that are free to the public.

Address: Raleigh
State: NC
City: Raleigh
categories: tour agency, museum



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Reviews
Normally, I love museums. This one I was not enamored with. I waffled between a 3 or 4 star rating. The museum is located in a historic down town Raleigh building. It's free as are most museums in Raleigh which is fantastic. The museum had an exhibit on Jewish residents of the city, women's suffrage, the Civil rights movement and cartography. There are also static exhibits of local history. The exhibits are nicely done.. My big issue with the museum is that it's small, therefore the exhibits are small. There's so much history here in Raleigh so to me, the museum falls short. If you have a couple of hours to spend, this is a good place to do it.
I was here with a group of kids. The museum highlights the history of the founding of Raleigh through now. It has a lot of memorabilia from old stores from the early twentieth century. Although they had numbered descriptions of many of the items they didn't have numbers next to the items described, so it was kind of hard to know what was what. I wouldn't plan on spending a lot of time there with smaller kids as it's an informative rather than interactive museum. The kids did a city planning program, which was fun, but it seemed like there could have been more instruction to help them connect the building with blocks they did with how city planning is actually thought through.
It’s a cute tiny museum that’s free to the public. It talks about the history of Raleigh, but I just wish it was bigger than just one floor.Visited onWeekendWait timeNo waitReservation recommendedNoPrice for adult entryFree
This museum was sort of bizarre. The exhibits it has are decent, but would make you think the entire history of the city was the fight for equity/rights. If you want some of that history you can get an overview here though I wished this went deeper too, but that's almost it apart from a maps section. Any Raleigh history on other topics is elsewhere. In the "City of Raleigh" museum, that seemed really....weird. If you want to actually learn and explore history, I'd suggest the history museum on the other side of the Capitol. I went there next and, while it wasn't focused on Raleigh, it also wasn't like a version of history with anything inconvenient ripped out.
Anyone who loves Raleigh or is simply a history buff would love this place. It explains so much about the area, even the Native Americans who initially inhabited it.
This is a place of rich history with very informative facts of history about the city and contributors of Raleigh. A great nice friendly place in a convenient locationdowntown.
Great little museum...one of the staff to me she doesn't know much about Raleigh history and didn't seem to care. Interesting place.
Staff are friendly, but the museum itself is limited. A lot of the displays are beginning to peel off the wall, and there are a lot of spelling mistakes and missing words in the information. It could be really great, but it is a free museum and it seems like there just isn't the money to run it as well as it needs to be run. Currently three main exhibits - one on the civil rights movement, one on Dwayne Powell, and one on WWII. There is also two smaller mini-exhibits that are mostly just somewhat random historical artifacts that have been donated to the museum. There are a lot of activities on each exhibit for young children although the Dwayne Powell exhibit goes a little over their heads. Literally, the images are fixed to the wall at adult eye-height. Also, it can be a little difficult to notice from the street - the sign says "cormuseum" rather than City of Raleigh Museum, which meant I walked past it a couple of times thinking "huh, wonder what cor stands for" before actually clocking. In my defence, it was hot and I was tired.
Very spacious the different floors have different exhibits...slit of little known Raleigh facts!
Beautiful ly well done with hands on exhibits.
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