Chapter 11 Receational Resources

The city of Raleigh is a home of a several huge and significant museums and other impotent cultured areas, being an historic city and one of the first founded city’s in the United States.
Raleigh is home to several professional arts organizations for performing arts, that includes the North Carolina Symphony, the Opera Company of North Carolina, Burning Coal Theatre Company, the North Carolina Theatre, Broadway Series South and the Carolina Ballet and the number of local colleges and universities that add to the selection of performances.

North Carolina Museum of Art, occupying a large suburban campus in the North Carolina State Fairgrounds. The North Carolina Museum of Art is one of the premier public art collections located between Washington, D.C., and Atlanta. In addition to its extensive collections of American Art, European Art and ancient art.
The museum recently has hosted major exhibitions of art from the following artists Auguste Rodin in 2000 and Claude Monet in 2006, each attracting more than 200,000 visitors.
Unlike most prominent public museums, the North Carolina Museum of Art acquired a large number of the works in its permanent collection through purchases with public funds.
The museum's outdoor art collection is one of the largest of such outdoor art collection in the country.

Museums
• African American Cultural Complex
• Contemporary Art Museum
• Gregg Museum of Art & Design at NCSU
• Haywood Hall House & Gardens
• North Carolina Museum of Art
• North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
• North Carolina Museum of History
• North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame
• Raleigh City Museum
• Marbles Kids Museum
• J.C. Raulston Arboretum
• Joel Lane House
• Mordecai House
• Pope House Museum
• (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleigh,_North_Carolina)