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What you should know
Visitor tip
Engage with the interactive hands-on experiences for the best visit—staff demonstrate activities like blacksmithing, armor combat training, and musket firing. These live demonstrations and participation opportunities are highly memorable and educational, so ask staff about the schedule when you arrive.
Visitor tip
The staff are knowledgeable and stay in character throughout the museum. Engage with them directly—they enjoy what they do and can provide richer context about exhibits and history that enhances the learning experience.
Visitor tip
This museum is ideal for families with children of all ages due to its hands-on, interactive nature. Kids can dress in period costumes, participate in training activities, and take home souvenirs like the forged metal hook from the blacksmith demonstration.
Quick Facts
- Type
- Natural History Museum
- Focus
- Over 400 years of Outer Banks history
- Highlights
- Period costumes, pirate tales, Civil War stories, maritime heritage, restored shad boat
What visitors say
Very informative and enjoyable. Loved walking around the Elizabeth 2 ship. Also the museum exhibit was greatm
Worth the visit. I learned a lot, even after doing my research. The staff want to be there and enjoy what they do. They are in character and know what they're talking about. It made it great. We boarded the Elizabeth II and went…
Attended for the Whiskey Myers Concert. Venue is located in a beautiful town, friendly staff, local shuttle was provided to and from. Rented chairs were available, multiple vendors for food, swag and drink. Show was amazing without…
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Did You Know?
- Features the Elizabeth II, a restored replica ship that visitors can board and explore below deck, including the boatswain's area, providing an immersive maritime history experience
- Offers interactive historical training experiences including pikeman combat instruction, armor sparring with period weapons, and blacksmith demonstrations where visitors forge their own souvenir metal hooks
- Covers the full historical arc of the Outer Banks region from 16th-century navigation and the Lost Colony through the Freedmen's Colony, Civil War era, and pirate history to modern tourism
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