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The North Carolina History Museum is all fenced up and renovations are underway for what will be a pretty major facelift to the inside and exterior of the building. The state is pumping around $180 million into the project and outdoor plaza and will really look modern when it’s done. Just take a look at this rendering to see the new museum.
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The North Carolina Museum of History has announced plans for upcoming renovations and will slowly close throughout 2024. The main thing to takeaway is that the museum will close to the public in October but the shop will remain open through almost the end of the year. (Dec 29) Details seem light from the announcement but they’re teasing an “exciting transformation” that will take about three years.
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Just a quick one today. On a recent walk around downtown Raleigh, I saw that our Liberty Bell replica, located on the bicentennial mall, has been muffled. Hopefully this isn’t a permanent thing. There’s a bad joke out there, for some anyway, because the liberty bell is located across the street from the state legislature building. :P
While looking up some history about the bell, I found this nice WRAL segment about it. If the video doesn’t load for you, jump to the source.
[UPDATE: 11-10-13]
On a recent walk today, I noticed the bell was not muffled anymore. So we rang that thing as loud as we could.