OVERVIEW OF MUSEUM OF COASTAL CAROLINA

• Founders' portrait of Stuart & Louise Ingram
• Carolina gold
• Civil War rifles & underwater archaeology artifacts
• Ringo, the tree
• Hands-on: Count tree rings & identify events

• Megabites! Developed by Volunteers Bethany and Will Ouimet, Megabites is an exhibit about shark teeth found in NC.  Visitors may dig for shark teeth in our fossil pit and identify the shark species from the Megabites exhibit.
• Shark jaws
• Model ships
• Wave machine shows wave action of high & low tides
• Tide machine demonstrates how the position of the sun, moon, & earth affect tides
• The Shore is Shifting: an interactive exhibit about inlet migration and hard structures on a barrier island system.

• Streams to the Sea  Funded through a grant from the North Carolina Environmental Education Centers and generous donations from Betty Williamson & Williamson Realty; and Aerial Photography, Streams to the Sea explains how stormwater runoff pollutes streams and rivers from higher ground as it flows to the Carolina Coast.  Another part of the exhibit is an outdoor rain barrel that catches rainwater from the Museum roof to water the plants around the entrance.
• Litterbug Hall of Shame
• NC River Basins

• Green Swamp habitat / diorama / ecosystem
• Wildlife native to Coastal Carolina
• Snakes: 3 live non-venomous, exhibit of venomous & non-venomous
• Insect collection and magnifiers

• Touch tank with live sea animals
• Animal relationships & habitat
• Movement patterns & feeding habits
• Personalities & peculiarities of our touch tank creatures
• Carolina Shells Updated 2009! Shell collection of 200+ different shells
• Carolina Fossils Updated 2009!
• Minerals found in one cubic yard of water
• Hands-on: Touch live sea creatures with docent assistance

• Imagine taking a walk through a reef 65 miles off NC coast!
• Lifesize models of whale, sharks, and other large fish
• Fish with distinctive characteristics
• Rays, turtles, octopus, eel
• Diorama of natural and man-made reef
• NEW! in mid-June:  The Ocean Reef Experience

• Toddler Area with puppet playhouse and puzzles
• The Legend of the Loggerhead:  a model of a sand dune with a mother loggerhead turtle laying a nest and hatchlings emerging from a nest. Visitors may walk through the dune to view the nests from the interior or watch a video about the life cycle of loggerhead turtles filmed on Ocean Isle Beach. 
• Shipwright's tools
• Navigation equipment
• Wooden strip boat made in Brunswick County
• Hands-on:  Large sea turtle puzzles, sea turtle hatchling maze

• American Bald Eagle
• Shorebirds
• Waterfowl habitat / diorama
• UPDATED!  Backyard birds dioramas, Nesting in Peace, and John Reid's Excellent Collection:  Bird Eggs from the 1860's.
• Hands-on: Make a bird nest activity, animal pelts with similar & different textures

• Food, clothing, shelter, transportation
• Dugout canoes
• Tools, projectiles, points
• Pottery