Charlotte is one of the country’s fastest-growing metro areas and home to the corporate headquarters of several leading financial institutions making it the second-largest banking center in the United States.
The Catawba Native Americans were first recorded around 1567 in Spanish records. By 1759, half the Catawba tribe had died from smallpox, and by 1826 their total population had dropped to about 100.
The area that is now Charlotte was settled by people of European descent around 1755. The city of Charlotte was developed first by a wave of migration of Scots-Irish Presbyterians, then by German immigrants also settled the area before the American Revolutionary War.
Nicknamed the “Queen City,” Charlotte was named in honor of German princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who had become the Queen Consort of Great Britain and Ireland in 1761.
Today among Charlotte’s many notable attractions, some of the most popular museums include the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Carolinas Aviation Museum, and Charlotte Nature Museum in Freedom Park.
Museums in Charlotte, North Carolina
- Carolinas Aviation Museum
- Bechtler Museum of Modern Art
- NASCAR Hall of Fame
- Mint Museum Randolph
- Levine Museum of the New South
- Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture
- Discovery Place Science
- The Charlotte Museum of History
- Discovery Place Nature
- Levine Center for the Arts
- Hezekiah Alexander House
- Discovery Place Kids-Huntersville
Museums in Charlotte, North Carolina – 360 Virtual Views
Museums in Charlotte, North Carolina
- City: Charlotte
- State: North Carolina
- Country: United States
- Settled: 1755
- Incorporated: 1768
- Named for: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Population: 2.6 million – Metro
Museums in Charlotte, North Carolina – Map
Museums in Charlotte, North Carolina
Museums in Charlotte, North Carolina
New York Museums – Virtual Tours
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art or MET
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- Intrepid, Sea, Air & Space Museum
- Neue Galerie New York
- The Cloisters
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- American Museum of Natural History
- Museum of the City of New York
- New-York Historical Society
- Frick Collection
- Met Breuer
- Rubin Museum of Art
- Brooklyn Museum
Museums in Charlotte, North Carolina
Washington, D.C. Museums – Virtual Tours
- National Gallery of Art
- National Museum of American History
- National Air and Space Museum
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- National Museum of Natural History
- National Portrait Gallery
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- The Phillips Collection
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- International Spy Museum
Museums in Charlotte, North Carolina
Museums in Charlotte, North Carolina
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