Free Tickets To 31 North Carolina Museums Saturday

Museums across the country including 31 museums in North Carolina will be opening their doors for free Saturday as part of “Museum Day Live!”

“Museum Day Live! is an annual celebration of boundless curiosity hosted by Smithsonian magazine,” event organizers said “Participating museums and cultural institutions across the country provide entry to anyone presenting a Museum Day Live! Ticket.”

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You can find participating museums here and print your free tickets here.

The North Carolina museums participating Sept. 23 include:
Aurora, NC -- Aurora Fossil Museum Foundation, Inc.
Bath, NC -- Historic Bath State Historic Site
Beaufort, NC -- Beaufort Historic Site
Black Mountain, NC -- Swannanoa Valley Museum & History Center
Blowing Rock, NC -- Blowing Rock Art & History Museum
Catawba, NC -- Murray's Mill
Charlotte, NC -- Carolinas Aviation Museum, Mint Museum
Claremont, NC -- Bunker Hill Covered Bridge
Durham, NC -- Duke Homestead State Historic Site
Ellerbe, NC -- The Rankin Museum of American Heritage
Fayetteville, NC -- Fascinate-U Children's Museum
Frisco, NC --Frisco Native American Museum & Natural History Center
Gibsonville, NC -- Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum
Greensboro, NC -- Blandwood Mansion, Weatherspoon Art Museum
Hamlet, NC -- Hamlet Depot and Museums
Hickory, NC -- Harper House/Hickory History Center
High Point, NC -- High Point Museum
Newton, NC -- History Museum of Catawba County
Raleigh, NC -- North Carolina Museum of History
Scotland Neck, NC -- Sylvan Heights Bird Park
Smithfield, NC -- Ava Gardner Museum
Statesville, NC -- Fort Dobbs State Historic Site
Wake Forest, NC -- Wake Forest Historical Museum
Wilmington, NC -- Cape Fear Museum, Wilmington Railroad Museum
Wilson, NC -- Imagination Station Science & History Museum
Winston Salem, NC -- Old Salem Museums & Gardens, Museum of Anthropology, Wake Forest University, Reynolda House Museum of American Art

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