Sights in Charlotte
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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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Mint Museum of Art
The Mint Museum of Art is 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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Discovery Place
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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Levine Museum of the New South
The slick Levine Museum of the New South has an informative permanent exhibit on post-Civil War Southern history and culture, from sharecropping to sit-ins.
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Mint Museum of Craft & Design
The Mint Museum of Craft & Design, which chronicles the history of glass, wood, metal, and jewelry crafts.
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