In this exhibit, you can learn the story of Lamar Stringfield, who started the North Carolina Symphony in 1932, and Benjamin and Maxine Swalin, who took the Symphony from its humble beginnings to its current state of quality and permanence.more
This exhibit on the museum building includes architect Donald Stewart's model of and architectural drawings for the original building as well as a brief history of the library and Museum.more
Back by popular request, a visual documentary that captures the Lincoln High experience of Orange County African Americans who attended the school from 1951 until it closed in 1966. The exhibition chronicles the academic, athletic and artistic history of Lincoln High students and teachers. While documenting the tremendous pride felt by the African American community, this exhibition revisits and examines the period before consolidation and integration. Featuring portraits of Lincoln High alumni by famed area photographer, Bob Gilgor.more
Chapel Hill native Alexander Julian has brought his flair for textures, craftsmanship, and color to three decades' work in fashion, home furnishings, and popular sports.more
We celebrate our tenth anniversary. With permanent installations, special exhibitions, and interactive educational programs, the Chapel Hill Museum brings the area's history and culture to life.more
Robert Roark (1915 - 1965) was a journalist, author, world traveler, sportsman, and syndicated columnist. This exhibit is produced in collaboration with the Robert Ruark Society of Chapel Hill, and the Museum is looking forward to this special exhibition documenting this journalist/novelists colorful life and work.more
It is with great pleasure that the Chapel Hill Museum will exhibit UNC-Chapel Hill's Photojournalism department's annual show. See tomorrow's award-winning photojournalists today in this exhibit's display of student work.more
We are delighted to be the main venue for the Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission's third annual community-wide art project. Opening reception March 23.more
The Triangle Black and White Photography group is a collection of photographers, some professional, some who teach photography, and some devoted hobbyists, who share a passion for conventional black and white photography and traditional printing methods utilizing wet darkroom technology.more
In conjunction with the much anticipated reopening this fall of Memorial Hall, the Museum presents an exhibition of photographs by Catharine Carter.more
Alexander Jackson Davis was a New York native, but during the first half of the nineteenth century he made a lasting imprint on North Carolina's natural and architectural landscape.more
Even if you don't know his name, you know the works of Michael Brown. He's responsible for several murals around town. This exhibit shows the process of mural-making and explores Brown's other love, watercolor landscape painting.more
This eclectic exhibit features scenery and costumes from the Triangle Youth Ballet's annual Nutcracker performance, including many items made by local artists and craftspeople, as well as the photographs of Catherine Carter.more
Just in time for the foliage- and flower-filled summer, this unusual exhibition examines the design of the domestic yard and garden as it has evolved in North Carolina History.more
Ruth Faison Shaw (1889 - 1969), a native of North Carolina and resident of Chapel Hill, was a distinguished world-wide teacher, noted artist, and developer of modern finger painting as art therapy. Shaw treated her technique and process as serious art and felt it represented a means of viewing one's own inner thoughts.more
Through photographs, text, newspaper articles, and handbills, the Chapel Hill Museum documents the story of this important and trying time in our community.more
This exhibit features photographic portraits of thirty-eight residents of family care homes, and also includes photographs of the homes, video interviews with operators, monitors, residents, and social workers, and artifacts related to the homes.more
Odyssey of the North Carolina Symphony
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
Lincoln High School
Why? - A Community-Wide Project
37th Frame: The Best of Carolina Photojournalism
Alexander Julian: Retrospective
Retrospective: 1996-2006
Nature Illustrated
The Life and Writing of Robert Ruark
Lost and Found: 2006 Community ART Project
Triangle Black & White Photography
The Transformation of Memorial Hall
Luther Hodges
Battle Park: A Natural Space in Four Seasons
A Romantic Architect in Antebellum North Carolina
The Works of Michael Brown
The Quiet Sickness
Trade Secrets
Community: Portraits of Tradition / Portraits of Change
Beyond the Barre: the Triangle Youth Ballet
Lights on the Hill
Ruth Faison Shaw
Exercising Democracy: Civil Rights & Chapel Hill
Siglinda Scarpa, Unabashedly Yours
Romare Bearden: A North Carolina Original
Invisible Neighbors
The Coker Arboretum: The First Hundred Years
African Americans in Southern Art
Minnie Evans