Museum of Life and Science
The Museum of Life and Science—previously known as the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science and the NC Children's Museum—is an 84-acre (340,000 m2) science museum located in Durham, North Carolina, United States.
The Project Mercury space capsule used in the November 29, 1961 Mercury-Atlas 5 mission, on which the chimpanzee Enos became the only chimpanzee and third primate to orbit the Earth, is exhibited at the museum
Sailboat pond
Seed tower
Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Durham County. Small portions of the city limits extend into Orange County and Wake County. With a population of 283,506 in the 2020 census, Durham is the 4th-most populous city in North Carolina, and the 71st-most populous city in the United States. The city is located in the east-central part of the Piedmont region along the Eno River. Durham is the core of the four-county Durham-Chapel Hill, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 608,879 in 2023. The Office of Management and Budget also includes Durham as a part of the Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC Combined Statistical Area, commonly known as the Research Triangle, which had an estimated population of 2,368,947 in 2023.
Image: Baldwin Auditorium, East Campus, Duke University, Durham, NC (48961008411)
Image: Duke Memorial United Methodist Church, Durham, NC (49140492242)
Image: Unity at Bennett Place
Image: Carolina Theatre (Durham Auditorium 1924)
