The Museum is open with updated hours, Wednesday through Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm and required free timed tickets for the Museum collection galleries to encourage social distancing. Learn more about these and other safety updates at ncartmuseum.org/covid19. Entry to special exhibition Golden Mummies of Egypt requires a paid ticket, which also provides access to the free Museum collection galleries. Free timed tickets to the Museum galleries do not provide access to Golden Mummies of Egypt.
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Sunday, October 1
| 12:30 pm
With a 164-acre campus, two buildings, an amphitheater, a park, and several gardens, the NCMA offers much to see and do. This free guided tour introduces visitors to the...
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Sunday, October 1
| 2:30 pm
With a 164-acre campus, two buildings, an amphitheater, a park, and several gardens, the NCMA offers much to see and do. This free guided tour introduces visitors to the...
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Thursday, October 5
| 10:15 am
Get up close and personal with our favorite people in the Museum collection!
Have fun while exploring art together. Each session introduces a work of art from the Museum...
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Thursday, October 5
| 11:15 am
Get up close and personal with our favorite people in the Museum collection!
Have fun while exploring art together. Each session introduces a work of art from the Museum...
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Thursday, October 5
| 1:15 pm
Get up close and personal with our favorite people in the Museum collection!
Have fun while exploring art together. Each session introduces a work of art from the Museum...
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Friday, October 6
| 7 pm
Join us for a hike at one of the best venues under the evening sky. REI provides headlamps and trekking poles for a hike of three to five miles. Afterward we’ll enjoy...
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Friday, October 6
| 8 pm
(1952) Directed by David Miller. Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame. (111 min.) DCP.
A successful middle-aged playwright (Joan Crawford) falls madly in love with...
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Saturday, October 7
| 9:15 am
In a series of illustrated lectures, Dennis Weller, curator of Northern European art, reminisces about his role in adding to the NCMA’s outstanding Dutch and Flemish...
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Saturday, October 7
| 10:30 am
Clothing can say a lot about a person! Learn more about clothes from functional to fancy in portraits across the Museum.
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Saturday, October 7
| Noon
This studio class focuses on rendering illusionistic form and space with chalk pastels. Working from direct observation, students combine and synthesize elements from works...
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Saturday, October 7
| 12:30 pm
With a 164-acre campus, two buildings, an amphitheater, a park, and several gardens, the NCMA offers much to see and do. This free guided tour introduces visitors to the...
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Saturday, October 7
| 2:30 pm
With a 164-acre campus, two buildings, an amphitheater, a park, and several gardens, the NCMA offers much to see and do. This free guided tour introduces visitors to the...
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Sunday, October 8
| 10:30 am
Clothing can say a lot about a person! Learn more about clothes from functional to fancy in portraits across the Museum.
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Sunday, October 8
| 12:30 pm
With a 164-acre campus, two buildings, an amphitheater, a park, and several gardens, the NCMA offers much to see and do. This free guided tour introduces visitors to the...
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Sunday, October 8
| 2:30 pm
With a 164-acre campus, two buildings, an amphitheater, a park, and several gardens, the NCMA offers much to see and do. This free guided tour introduces visitors to the...
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Monday, October 9
| 9 am
This is your ticket for a whirlwind art-making adventure! Begin each day in a new country and create works of art inspired by the places you visit.
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Thursday, October 12
| 6:30 pm
November 17 marks the centenary of Auguste Rodin’s death. David Steel, curator of European art, discusses how Rodin created the works we see in the galleries and offers...
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Friday, October 13
| 8 pm
The popular Durham-based Mallarmé Chamber Players accompany a special screening the classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Included in season ticket. No docent-led tour...
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Saturday, October 14
| 8 am
Students from the Pi Alpha Xi (PAX) Horticulture Honors Society at North Carolina State University are holding their fall plant sale in partnership with the NCMA. The...
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Saturday, October 14
| 10 am
Discover art in the Museum’s collection that transforms everyday objects, places, and ideas into something HUGE! Then, collaborate with your group to create a supersized...
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Saturday, October 14
| 10:30 am
Clothing can say a lot about a person! Learn more about clothes from functional to fancy in portraits across the Museum.
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Saturday, October 14
| 12:30 pm
With a 164-acre campus, two buildings, an amphitheater, a park, and several gardens, the NCMA offers much to see and do. This free guided tour introduces visitors to the...
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Saturday, October 14
| 1 pm
Discover art in the Museum’s collection that transforms everyday objects, places, and ideas into something HUGE! Then, collaborate with your group to create a supersized...
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Saturday, October 14
| 2:30 pm
With a 164-acre campus, two buildings, an amphitheater, a park, and several gardens, the NCMA offers much to see and do. This free guided tour introduces visitors to the...
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Sunday, October 15
| 10 am
Students from the Pi Alpha Xi (PAX) Horticulture Honors Society at North Carolina State University are holding their fall plant sale in partnership with the NCMA. The...
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Sunday, October 15
| 10:30 am
Clothing can say a lot about a person! Learn more about clothes from functional to fancy in portraits across the Museum.
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Sunday, October 15
| 12:30 pm
With a 164-acre campus, two buildings, an amphitheater, a park, and several gardens, the NCMA offers much to see and do. This free guided tour introduces visitors to the...
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Sunday, October 15
| 2:30 pm
With a 164-acre campus, two buildings, an amphitheater, a park, and several gardens, the NCMA offers much to see and do. This free guided tour introduces visitors to the...
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Tuesday, October 17
| 8 am
This five-week course explores visual literacy in the classroom and its connection to the North Carolina Essential Standards. The course includes opportunities for...
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Wednesday, October 18
| 7 pm
Calling his approach “a little bit messy and experimental,” Matthew Brandt produces large-scale photographs through labor-intensive processes recalling the 19th-century...
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Thursday, October 19
| 10:15 am
Look closely to see if you can spot beautiful flowers, delicious food, and tiny objects from nature in art.
Have fun while exploring art together. Each session introduces...
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Thursday, October 19
| 11:15 am
Look closely to see if you can spot beautiful flowers, delicious food, and tiny objects from nature in art.
Have fun while exploring art together. Each session introduces...
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Thursday, October 19
| 1:15 pm
Look closely to see if you can spot beautiful flowers, delicious food, and tiny objects from nature in art.
Have fun while exploring art together. Each session introduces...
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Friday, October 20
| 5:30 pm
Welcome the weekend with Iris after Dark, an evening experience offered by the NCMA’s Iris restaurant every Friday starting at 5:30 pm. Lounge with friends to the spins and...
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Friday, October 20
| 6:30 pm
Happy (almost) Halloween! Ever think a work of art was watching you? Or maybe you took one look at a creepy baby or child in a work of art and thought of your favorite (or...
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Friday, October 20
| 8 pm
(1991) Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Derek Jacobi. (107 min.) R. 35mm from UNCSA.
A shabby LA PI is sucked into an amnesiac’s nightmares...
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Saturday, October 21
| 10:30 am
Clothing can say a lot about a person! Learn more about clothes from functional to fancy in portraits across the Museum.
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Saturday, October 21
| 12:30 pm
With a 164-acre campus, two buildings, an amphitheater, a park, and several gardens, the NCMA offers much to see and do. This free guided tour introduces visitors to the...
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Saturday, October 21
| 2:30 pm
With a 164-acre campus, two buildings, an amphitheater, a park, and several gardens, the NCMA offers much to see and do. This free guided tour introduces visitors to the...
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Sunday, October 22
| 10:30 am
Clothing can say a lot about a person! Learn more about clothes from functional to fancy in portraits across the Museum.
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Sunday, October 22
| 12:30 pm
With a 164-acre campus, two buildings, an amphitheater, a park, and several gardens, the NCMA offers much to see and do. This free guided tour introduces visitors to the...
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Sunday, October 22
| 2:30 pm
With a 164-acre campus, two buildings, an amphitheater, a park, and several gardens, the NCMA offers much to see and do. This free guided tour introduces visitors to the...
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Friday, October 27
| 10 am
We invite members to visit Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair before it opens to the public. Please be prepared to show your membership card as you enter the...
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Friday, October 27
| 5:30 pm
Welcome the weekend with Iris after Dark, an evening experience offered by the NCMA’s Iris restaurant every Friday starting at 5:30 pm. Lounge with friends to the spins and...
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Friday, October 27
| 8 pm
(2017) Directed by James Gray. Charlie Hunnam. Robert Pattinson. Sienna Miller. (141 min.) Digital.
Ambition morphs into obsession as a gentleman explorer pushes into the...
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Saturday, October 28
| 10:30 am
Clothing can say a lot about a person! Learn more about clothes from functional to fancy in portraits across the Museum.
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Saturday, October 28
| 10:30 am
With admission to Inspiring Beauty, you gain behind-the-scenes access to designers-in-residence Katherine Diuguid and Precious Lovell as they create haute couture in the...
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Saturday, October 28
| 12:30 pm
With a 164-acre campus, two buildings, an amphitheater, a park, and several gardens, the NCMA offers much to see and do. This free guided tour introduces visitors to the...
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Saturday, October 28
| 2 pm
With admission to Inspiring Beauty, you gain behind-the-scenes access to designers-in-residence Katherine Diuguid and Precious Lovell as they create haute couture in the...
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Saturday, October 28
| 2:30 pm
With a 164-acre campus, two buildings, an amphitheater, a park, and several gardens, the NCMA offers much to see and do. This free guided tour introduces visitors to the...
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Saturday, October 28
| 8 pm
This event is sold out, but we have another fabulous night of fashion and beauty planned! Learn more about Behind the Seams, and get your tickets for the Thursday, November...
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Sunday, October 29
| 10:30 am
Clothing can say a lot about a person! Learn more about clothes from functional to fancy in portraits across the Museum.
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Sunday, October 29
| 10:30 am
With admission to Inspiring Beauty, you gain behind-the-scenes access to designers-in-residence Katherine Diuguid and Precious Lovell as they create haute couture in the...
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Sunday, October 29
| Noon
Create a dynamic nighttime dreamscape in a bottle inspired by Skunder Boghossian’s moody painting.
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Sunday, October 29
| 12:30 pm
With a 164-acre campus, two buildings, an amphitheater, a park, and several gardens, the NCMA offers much to see and do. This free guided tour introduces visitors to the...
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Sunday, October 29
| 2 pm
With admission to Inspiring Beauty, you gain behind-the-scenes access to designers-in-residence Katherine Diuguid and Precious Lovell as they create haute couture in the...
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Sunday, October 29
| 2 pm
The world-renowned Juilliard String Quartet, widely known as the quintessential American string quartet, performs a concert featuring the music of Haydn, Dvorak, and...
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Sunday, October 29
| 2:30 pm
With a 164-acre campus, two buildings, an amphitheater, a park, and several gardens, the NCMA offers much to see and do. This free guided tour introduces visitors to the...
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Sunday, October 29
| 6 pm
Fashion icon André Leon Talley became a household name as an editor for Vogue and a judge for America’s Next Top Model. Few may know that Talley is originally from Durham...
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