Exhibit about LED lighting and the homegrown company, Cree.
LED lights!
Whale skeleton.
Rescue dog.
Turtle and fish.
Pretty lighting.
Carolina Emporer Emerald.
Fish looking innocent.
Whale skeleton downstairs.
Model of an ice core from Greenland, which holds 108,000 years of weather history.
The building is amazing!
Colorful exhibits.
The globe outside.
Giant globe which is part of the building.
Impressive globe!
Pedestrian walkway that joins the two buildings.
Attractive display.
Ancestral Great White shark teeth.
Beach scene.
Cute plaque teaching about turtles.
Whelk shells, crab exoskeleton, barnacles encrusting a bottle, sargassum weeds, and mermaid's purse.
Brown shrimp. I love this guy!
Granite with feldspar and sediments with feldspar.
49 carat blue sapphire, 103 carat ruby with six point star.
Amethyst crystals on matrix.
Longnose gar.
Deer.
Looking down at a pretty exhibit.
Globe on the building.
The side of the museum (on the left), and NC General Assembly building straight ahead.
Looking toward the North Carolina State Capital, from the plaza between NC Museum of Natural Sciences and NC Museum of History.
Amazing rock, displayed in the pedestrian bridge between the two sides of the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.
Gorgeous rocks, displayed in the pedestrian bridge between the two sides of the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.
Exhibit about DNA.
A family checks out a show, which is projected onto the inside of the globe.
A science experiment that you can see in action.