Charlotte Sights

  1. Afro-American Cultural Center

    The Afro-American Cultural Center, largely housed in a historic old church has excellent visual-arts exhibits, films and performances in the outdoor amphitheater. The fine art collection is well worth a look and performances cover everything from trad jazz to poetry 'slams'.

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  2. Discovery Place

    Discovery Place is a hands-on science museum with an Omnimax cinema and planetarium. You can wander through a rainforest, peer inside a huge eyeball and sample liquid nitrogen ice cream in the chemistry lab.

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  3. Levine Museum of the New South

    The Levine Museum of the New South gives an excellent look at modern Southern history covering everything from sharecropping to Nascar racing.

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  4. Mint Museum of Art

    Mint Museum of Art is housed in the 19th-century US Mint building in the peaceful Edgewood neighborhood. The collection includes African art, historic maps, American paintings and an impressive number of Spanish Colonial bleeding saint icons.

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  5. Mint Museum of Craft & Design

    Your ticket for the Mint Museum of Art also gets you into the Mint Museum of Craft & Design , which chronicles the history of studio crafts including glass, metal, wood and metalwork and jewelry.

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