This Smithsonian Affiliate museum shares Greensboro’s compelling history through diverse collections, engaging exhibits, educational programs and community dialogue. 17,000 square feet of award-winning exhibitions, many with hands-on interactives, highlight stories from precolonial cultures to today’s Gate City. Discover Greensboro’s part in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and its connection to U.S. history through transportation, textiles, education, civil rights and much more. Throughout 2023, visitors can explore choices and change across 11 elections between 1776 and and 2010 in the special exhibition NC Democracy: Eleven Elections. Free. Hours: Tues-Sat: 10am-5pm, Sun: 2pm-5pm.