Cape Fear Museum

Cape Fear Museum is a local science & history museum for Wilmington and the greater Cape Fear region. It is the oldest history museum in the state, and holds a very varied collection on every topic from early history and geography through the trade of the 1700s to the civil war to modern stuff like tourism on the local beaches. They also have some of the hands-on stuff that I so like about American museums, and from which most Norwegian museums have a lot to learn.

All pics here.

Giant sloths like these once walked the earth. Yes, they were even bigger than me.


What Wilmington looked like in the 19th century.


A display showing the battle of Fort Fisher, which was the last stronghold of the Confederacy. They held the port of Wilmington open for ships till January 1865.


Old classroom.


You could turn a crank and make the lamp in the center glow. Wheeee!


These signs are posted at each end of Interstate 40. Maybe one day I'll drive 'em all.