The City of Raleigh Museum in Raleigh is a cool museum that explores the history and highlights of the city. I liked all of the different displays that were very informative and educational and I was able to learn many things. Everything here is well organized and curated and I had a good time here. The museum has free admission and is well worth the visit to check it out. The building the museum is at is very cool too. Great experience and a lot of fun.

Beautiful ly well done with hands on exhibits.

I took an architectural walking tour offered by the museum. It was fun and fascinating--our guide knew so much about the city, the buildings, and the architectural trends and details of the structures we toured. I highly recommend if you are interested in engineering, history, Raleigh, or just want a new way to see our city.

Anyone who loves Raleigh or is simply a history buff would love this place. It explains so much about the area, even the Native Americans who initially inhabited it.

Loved it... So much things and information that helped me learn more about NC and mainly about the rapidly growing city of Raleigh. Very nice museum to visit and spend some good time at.

What a fantastic little city gem! Right on the main street in Raleigh, NC, once you get inside, youll be amazed by the space and the number of exhibits they were able to fit inside. Many areas feature rotating, temporary displays and admission is free so Ill keep coming back.They also have diverse membership choices, the smallest at $35 gets you discounts to numerous small events they host during the year (an Oct. Dark Raleigh tour, Raleigh Roast in Jan, etc, etc). Thats an easy call to support such a great Raleigh institution!

Very spacious the different floors have different exhibits...slit of little known Raleigh facts!

The museums exhibits have improved tremendously from years ago. Its worth a revisit. Right now there is an excellent exhibit of Dwane Powells political cartoons. Its worth a look. Powell died earlier this year, and its a memorial to his life and work. The cartoons are biting, and no politician was immune from his caustic but funny satire. Also, North Carolina memorabilia is now arranged in a more presentable manner.

The City of Raleigh Museum has a lot history in a small footprint and will not take long to go through. The experience is well worth it as you will learn some interesting facts about Raleigh even if you have lived here for a long time. The staff was friendly and helpful. There are a lot of dining options within a short walk.

Looking for Raleigh history, youll find it here. A very nice, modern, museum.

Was a great way to learn a little about Raleigh. Free admittance with interesting exhibits. On the small side, but a lot to see and learn for the size.

Small with interesting collection.

Exhibits were well spaced and interesting, staff friendly

Very nice museum, really nice staff and a good place to take your kids to learn more about history especially local history. I really enjoyed the concept of having temporary exhibits that change often and you get to learn new things.

Great historical snapshot of the city with great brochure for for self guided tour and hands on items to look at.

Exceptional establishment for memorable events such as the one I attended

It was an excellent way to spend a couple hours. Informative and entertaining.

Though I havent been recently, I remember the exhibit, only a portion, of the history of WRAL, a local radio/television station. It was great! Another small exhibit, believe it or not, was an old podiatry office featuring the chair donated by Dr. HIll after his death (we knew Dr. HIll). I thought it was clever to build an exhibit using what they had. We never know what exhibits will be there, but all are well-done.

The Drexell exhibit is funny as hell

It was nice but wished there was more exhibits.

The most awesome place and its free.

I’ve visited this museum on several different occasions. Worth checking out. Not a huge place but very interesting exhibits and info about RALEIGH. Admission is free - so also a plus!

3rd trip to this museum, and theres been something new each time. Its free - donation recommended, but not required. Right down the road from the capitol and on the drag from Fayetteville St. If youre headed to Raleigh, check out the capitol building and region then check out this cool little museum to learn a bit about the history of our capital city!

Very well laid out lots and lots of very interesting things to see, also very educational, need about two days instead of two hours we had

Had a great time and the coffee tasting event looking forward to visiting more

The event coordinator is awesome! Good place for private events

They have very good installations. A good place to learn about the history of the city.

Really cool gem in downtown Raleigh. They have some cool events as well... photo exhibits and yoga classes etc :-)

City of Raleigh is housed in The Briggs Building was was the place to go for just anything and everything having to do with maintaing your home, garden, farm and the assorted necessities for care and feeding the many pets and farm animals. The three story building has a beautiful facade of red brick.Today it is a museum that reflects the history of Raleigh as well as contemporary stories. I was privileged to attend a presentation by the premier political cartoonist of the News and Observer, Dwayne Powel.

Fun little free (donation suggested) museum focusing on Raleigh history. Definitely worth a stop.

Informative free helpful staff, small

Very nice place to hold an event. Very friendly.

Staff are friendly, but the museum itself is limited. A lot of the displays are beginning to peel off the wall, and there are a lot of spelling mistakes and missing words in the information. It could be really great, but it is a free museum and it seems like there just isnt the money to run it as well as it needs to be run. Currently three main exhibits - one on the civil rights movement, one on Dwayne Powell, and one on WWII. There is also two smaller mini-exhibits that are mostly just somewhat random historical artifacts that have been donated to the museum.There are a lot of activities on each exhibit for young children (although the Dwayne Powell exhibit goes a little over their heads. Literally, the images are fixed to the wall at adult eye-height).Also, it can be a little difficult to notice from the street - the sign says cormuseum rather than City of Raleigh Museum, which meant I walked past it a couple of times thinking huh, wonder what cor stands for before actually clocking. In my defence, it was hot and I was tired.

Worth a stop while in town. Interesting exhibits

Great displays rotated often in a historically significant building. Raleighs first skyscraper! I really enjoy coming by on first Friday to see what guest is in the lobby.

Very nice place to visit for a little history of Raleigh.

Very fun and has lots to learn

Learned a lot about Raleigh history, very informative

Very knowledgeable staff. The walking tour was excellent.

The museum is free and has a few interesting tidbits about Raleigh. Worth a quick stop.

Amazing place

A wonderful little meuseum, we also took the tour of Fayetteville street it was great

It was amazing learning about my families ancestory and lineage. They gave my father and I a special tour and were in shock when they saw our IDs. Thank you to the staff for making it an extra special day.

Nice and informative venue.

Great free museum with regularly rotating exhibits.

Interesting Raleigh history but nothing new. More interesting is their events.

Very good museum - fascinating artifacts. The building itself is a historic part of Raleigh.

Free! A fair number of typos and editing slips in the interpretives, and most of the exhibits seem to be about the Civil Rights Movement. Very nice staff, decent use of space, reasonable hours.

Love coming here for my saturday yoga!

Small but well done. A very pleasant surprise.

A free museum with the history of Raleigh, yes please.

The artifacts and the creative way that they integrated history and maintaining and preserving gentle pieces of our past was great. The layout and sense of ease that the flow of the place gives you is fantastic.

Great place to visit and everyone should go

Nice

Great place

Great exhibits, knowlegable staff.

Its was a great combo of local and national history

Great history of the city. Its now FREE! Go see it!

Amazing place. Especially since its free.

First of all it free! And a wonderful experience for children.

A hidden gem in downtown Raleigh. Always has 1 traveling Smithsonian exhibit. Free.

Very interesting building. Great history.

Great staff and local history displays.

Charming.

First time and I learned a lot about North Carolina. I will be going back!

Really interesting exhibits about Raleigh and the area.

Great museum experience.

Small.

Great experience!!

Interesting expositions, especially about influenza and slavery

Enlightening

Nice small space

Loved it

AWESOME PLACE

Very interesting!

Not a whole lot to see here

Nice place

Nice museum.

Good food and drinks