{"id":386,"date":"2009-07-13T15:14:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T19:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2009-07-13T15:14:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T19:14:04","slug":"states-oldest-museum-is-located-in-wilmington-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/states-oldest-museum-is-located-in-wilmington-nc\/","title":{"rendered":"State&#8217;s Oldest Museum is Located in Wilmington, NC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_387\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-387\" class=\"size-full wp-image-387 \" title=\"cape fear museum\" src=\"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/cape-fear-museum.jpg\" alt=\"Cape Fear Museum\" width=\"160\" height=\"121\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cape Fear Museum<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the many advantages\u00a0to\u00a0owning real estate and living \u00a0in Landfall and Wilmington NC is the variety of museums and the myriad of exhibits they\u00a0display\u00a0every year.\u00a0 Proof positive is the Cape Fear Museum of History and Science, the oldest continuously operating museum in North Carolina, located on Market Street just a short drive from Landfall in the heart of\u00a0 hostoric downtown.\u00a0\u00a0Currently\u00a0is featured exhibits that include <strong><em>Cape Fear Volunteers, <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0highlighting a century of service of the the Cape Fear Chapter of the American Red Cross; the <strong><em>Sports Hall of Fame<\/em><\/strong>, showcasing artifacts and memorabilia from well known area sports personalities; the <strong><em>ToyTime Exhibit, <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0a mingling of craft, culture, history, science, and play that includes old fashioned toys; \u00a0and the <strong><em>Ancient Carolinians<\/em><\/strong>, which uses archeology as a way to understand our past and learn how people from the past lived.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_394\" style=\"width: 161px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-394\" class=\"size-full wp-image-394  \" title=\"Wilmington's Giant Ground Sloth Replica\" src=\"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Wilmingtons-Giant-Ground-Sloth-Replica.jpg\" alt=\"Giant Ground Sloth Replica\" width=\"151\" height=\"113\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giant Ground Sloth Replica<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The museum also offers many ongoing exhibits , such as\u00a0Wilmington&#8217;s \u00a0Giant Ground Sloth, \u00a0to instruct, amuse, and provide hours of enjoyment and education.\u00a0 In addition to the exhibits, Cape Fear Museum offers summer camp programs and year round public and school programs.\u00a0 Landfall property owners can also take advantage of the Resident Free Day the first Sunday of every month for all New Hanover County residents!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mceTemp\">The Featured Exhibits won&#8217;t be there forever, so consider visiting\u00a0one or all of these remarkable displays.\u00a0 Log onto their website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capefearmuseum.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.capefearmuseum.com<\/a> or call 910.798.4350 for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many advantages\u00a0to\u00a0owning real estate and living \u00a0in Landfall and Wilmington NC is the variety of museums and the myriad of exhibits they\u00a0display\u00a0every year.\u00a0 Proof positive is the Cape Fear Museum of History and Science, the oldest continuously operating museum in North Carolina, located on Market Street just a short drive from Landfall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landfallrealty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}