Gregg Museum of Art & Design — Attraction in Raleigh

See below for a recap of current exhibits. It's free! See photos, too.

The Gregg Museum of Art & Design reopened in its current home at 1903 Hillsborough Street on August 26, 2017. The museum includes the renovated original NC State University Chancellor’s residence and a recent addition. The grounds and patios are also a magnificent escape from a busy urban environment. Include the gardens and paths in your visit.

Entrance to the museum is free, as is parking. There’s a room in the museum for children to sit and draw and plenty of places for parents and other visitors to sit an enjoy the beautiful environment. Many old and majestic oaks remind of the time when this was the Chancellor's home.

Restaurants are plentiful just across Hillsborough Street, including David’s Duck & Dumpling, Players Retreat and Gonza Tacos y Tequila (next to the new Aloft Hotel across from the Bell Tower)

Current (2019) programs: Now open through September 8, 2019 Southern Surreal — Masterpiece Furniture by Tilden Stone Don’t miss the eccentric furniture masterpieces by North Carolina’s greatest unsung master maker! This exhibit presents a unique, beautiful, artful and whimsical stroll through the mind of Tilden Stone as seen through his masterful and creative furniture. The exhibit is world-class and would not be out of place in any museum. That it is here in Raleigh is a great gift to the community. Plan a visit!

Now through July 28, 2019: Borderlands – Evidence from the Rio Grande by Susan Harbage Page Documentary photos and found objects from the US/Mexico border. This exhibit brings the border crisis off the newspaper and TV screens and places it in a very poignant perspective. I was unexpectedly engaged and educated on the human side of the difference between an ‘us’ and a ‘them.’

Now open through July 28, 2019: Explorations — Science Sculptures by Christina Lorena Weisner Sculptures with a scientific twist link the gallery with earthquakes, meteorite strikes, and ocean waves

Now open through June 23, 2019: Left-Handed Liberty — Self-Taught Art from the...

The Gregg Museum of Art & Design is a weird and wonderful place that mixes the ancient and the modern. The museum started out in 1979 as a bunch of fabrics and fancy stuff, but it has grown to include all kinds of artworks from different times and places. The museum is spread out in several buildings, some of which are old and some of which are new. The difference between the buildings shows the variety of the museum's collections. But the museum doesn't have much room and can only show a small part of its stuff at once. The Gregg Museum of Art & Design is a jumble of past and present that lets you see how people like to make...

The main exhibits now are by Christina Weisner. One focuses on the Ries Meteorite Impact Crater in Germany, 15 miles across and containing the entire city of Nordlingen, built before anyone understood that the great depression or bowl that nestles the city is actually a 14-million-year-old impact crater. Weisner also has an imaginative assembly of glass spheres, originally used to house underwater seismometers. These are connected to the United States Geologic Service's earthquake reporting website so that the spheres ring each time there is an earthquake anywhere on planet earth! Very...