Museum sights in Charlotte

1. Afro-American Cultural Center

   • Charlotte, USA
   • Sights › Museum

   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. Mint Museum of Art

   • Charlotte, USA
   • Sights › Museum

   Housed in the imposing 19th-century US mint building. The hushed halls display historic maps, American paintings and an impressive number of gruesome Spanish Colonial bleeding-saint statues.

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3. Discovery Place

   • Charlotte, USA
   • Sights › Museum

   Wander through a rainforest, peer inside a huge eyeball or sample liquid-nitrogen ice cream in the chemistry lab at the hands-on Discovery Place science museum, complete with an Omnimax cinema.

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4. Levine Museum of the New South

   • Charlotte, USA
   • Sights › Museum

   This slick museum has an informative permanent exhibit on post–Civil War Southern history and culture, from sharecropping to sit-ins.

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5. Mint Museum of Craft & Design

   • Charlotte, USA
   • Sights › Museum

   The Mint Museum of Craft & Design, which chronicles the history of glass, wood, metal, and jewelry crafts.

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