page_title: North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
section_title: Third floor
hierarchical_section_title: North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences / Nature Exploration Center / Third floor
caption_attribution_description: English: Fossil of a giant ground sloth (Eremotherium eomigrans) in the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, 3rd floor.
context_page_description: The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is located in Raleigh, North Carolina as the oldest established museum in North Carolina and the largest museum of its kind in the Southeastern United States. With about 1.2 million visitors annually, as of 2013 it was the state's most popular museum or historic destination among visitors.
  The museum has four facilities on three campuses: the Nature Exploration Center and Nature Research Center on Jones Street in downtown Raleigh, the Prairie Ridge Ecostation satellite facility and outdoor classroom in northwest Raleigh near William B. Umstead State Park, and the former North Carolina Museum of Forestry in Whiteville. NCMNS is a division of the state Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
context_section_description: Prehistoric North Carolina chronicles prehistoric life in the state and throughout the southeastern United States.
  The Terror of the South exhibit features fossil skeletons, including an Acrocanthosaurus.
  The Tropical Connections section is anchored by a large interactive globe which allows visitors to highlight the climate regions of the Earth. This exhibit focuses on environmental issues.
  In the Windows on the World theater, museum volunteers and employees give frequent demonstrations and talks, and share live animal visits with museum visitors as well as remotely to classrooms throughout the state.
  Two Curiosity Classrooms spaces
  Another bridge
  A dinosaur short film in a room
caption: Eremotherium fossil in Prehistoric NC section.
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