Location: Greensboro
Top Things to do in Greensboro
The 10 Best Museums in Greensboro, North Carolina (NC)
Greensboro, North Carolina loves nightlife, shopping, and horses (8,000 buyers per year go to the Sharpe Family Horse Farm.) Greensboro lives up to its name in the host of gardens, science centers, and arboretums. The Bog Garden features a living wetland ecosystem. History is also at home here with museums dedicated to the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and the Civil Rights movement. After a day of sightseeing, visitors flock to the Four Seasons Town Center for dinner, shopping, and a movie.
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1. Uptown Artworks
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
Uptown Artworks is Greensboro's newest art destination! Art gallery and working studios for visual artists.
2. Winter Wonderlights
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
3. Green Hill Center for NC Art
4. Ambleside Gallery
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5.0 based on 41 reviews
Ambleside Fine Arts was founded in Manchester, England in 1982. Throughout its twelve years in the UK, ten years in Grosse Pointe, MI and fifteen years in Greensboro, NC, Ambleside Gallery has maintained a reputation for the high artistic standard of its offerings and its commitment to the community it serves. Ambleside Gallery is privileged to represent more than thirty extraordinary painters, sculptors and, on occasion, photographers from the US, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, China and Japan. China's most revered and renowned watercolorist, Guan Weixing, is exclusively represented by Ambleside Gallery in the United States. Exhibitions, workshops, lectures, seminars and a wide variety of cultural performances are presented in the gallery on a regular basis. The Gallery space is also made available to individuals and organizations for numerous types of events.
Reviewed By jessicagriffin94 - Winston Salem, United States
A friend and I stopped in while on a little trip to Greensburo. Totally unplanned but really happy we checked it out! Viewed some beautiful work by Matthew Hillier and BC Clay, really stopped us in our tracks. Would love to visit again soon!!
5. Guilford College Art Gallery
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
Housed within Hege Library is the College’s Art Gallery, which features rotating temporary exhibitions of contemporary fine art along with selections from the Permanent Collection. This distinctive collection spans more than 4000 years and five continents, and includes nearly 2000 original works of art by more than 800 artists.
6. Greensboro Children's Museum
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4.5 based on 255 reviews
Designed to inspire hands-on learning through play, GCM offers a fun, energetic and safe environment for all ages!
Reviewed By darrenwY1064TK - Greensboro, United States
My kids love it here! So many interactive activities! They especially love the water areas and the hospital section.
7. Greensboro History Museum
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4.5 based on 254 reviews
The Greensboro History Museum – an AAM-accredited Smithsonian Affiliate – is a division of the City of Greensboro Library Department and operates as a public-private partnership with the nonprofit GHM Inc. In partnership with the community, the Greensboro History Museum collects the city's diverse history and connects people to that history and one another through engaging exhibits, educational programs and community dialogue.
Reviewed By megankkey
This was one of the best free museums we've been to visit. The layout was nice and the staff were knowledgeable and helpful. We enjoyed the pieces of local history that made the displays so much more interesting and authentic. The temporary display was interactive and had kids engaged as we went through. The Vicks and O'Henry connections to this area was really neat to see and learn about. We really enjoyed this surprise visit to a great piece of history.
8. Elements Gallery
9. International Civil Rights Center & Museum
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4.5 based on 1,505 reviews
The International Civil Rights Center & Museum (ICRCM), located in Greensboro, N.C., is an archival center, collecting museum and teaching facility devoted to the international struggle for civil and human rights. This national landmark and national site of conscience celebrates the nonviolent protests of the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins that served as a catalyst in the civil rights movement. Our vision is to memorialize the courageous stand of the Greensboro Four as they launched, for posterity, the sit-in movement Feb. 1, 1960. We hope that the ICRCM, with its focus on the sit-in activities at the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro in 1960, will inspire the vigilance and fortify the spirit of all oppressed people to step forward in the ongoing struggle for human freedom.
Reviewed By 629vickys - Chesterland, United States
What an amazing experience. I saw another review mentioning tour guide Gloria...she was our guide as well, and she did a fantastic job. She's engaging, patient and knowledgeable but what really impressed me was her passion for the subject, which really made her words come alive and got us passionate on the subject of civil rights as well. Gloria also was great at making personal connections with individual members of the tour; several had their own stories to tell about relatives who'd lived in the deep South during Jim Crow or tales about their own experiences with discrimination, and she listened with empathy to them all. I was there with a family member and a friend, both of whom have lived in Greensboro for a while but had never been to the Civil Rights museum...they were extremely glad I, an out of towner, wanted to go. We all learned quite a bit, even on subjects we thought we learned all there was to know. I cannot recommend this museum enough.
10. Greensboro Science Center
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4.5 based on 1,278 reviews
Experience the wonders of an aquarium, science museum, zoological park, and immersive 3D theater all in one attraction! See sharks, penguins, otters, stingrays, a fishing cat and other amazing animals from around the world in the Wiseman Aquarium. Get eye-to-eye with tigers, meerkats, gibbons, lemurs and other unique animals in the Animal Discovery Zoo. Walk among dinosaurs in Prehistoric Passages, experience extreme weather, and have fun in SciPlay Bay in the Museum. Watch amazing 3-D shows that make science come alive in the OmniSphere Theater.
Reviewed By W5952PYchristinad
Love all the animals friendly and kind staff always make me feel very welcome good gift shop and cafe my happy place would recommend to everyone of all ages membership is very reasonable and u get money off in gift shop and cafe plus other exciting things the penguins stinrays meerkats lemurs the farm animals are very interactive and sweet with the visitors adore all the animals there if in Greensboro u should definitely go there and if u live here membership is a wonderful thing to have☺️
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