Building The Museum Of The Future

…collect and display only those artifacts that advance its mission of telling the story of the Civil War and Reconstruction in North Carolina. The interpretive consultants were instructed to focus on finding the most effective means of telling the story – not to rely solely on artifacts. From the beginning, the History Center’s planners understood that many, many students from across the state would benefit from the use of technology. So they created one of the nation’s first digital master plans to make this authoritative resource accessible to all.