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Sunday: 1:00p - 5:00p
Tuesday - Saturday: 10:00a - 5:00p
The Asheville Art Museum was established by artists and was incorporated in 1948. It is a non-profit organization and is the only organization providing cultural and educational experience for visitors.
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Sunday - Monday: 11:00a - 5:00p
Thursday: 11:00a - 5:00p Friday - Saturday: 11:00a - 6:00p
The aSHEville Museum is the first women's cultural museum in the southeast United States. It is located near the Grove Arcade
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Asheville Pinball Museum
Asheville, NC 28801
Wednesday - Friday: 2:00p – 9:00p
Saturday: 12:00p – 9:00p
Sunday: 1:00p – 6:00p
Asheville Pinball Museum is located across the street from the Grove Arcade. The pinball machines ranging from 1966 to 2014. There is an admission fee but you can play over 20 machines for as long as you like. Also several of the pinball marchines are for sale.
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Biltmore Industries Homespun Museum (at Grovewood Village)
Temporarily closed due to Covid-19Asheville, NC 28804
Monday - Saturday: 10:00a - 5:30p
Sunday: 11:00a - 5:00p
Temporarily closed due to Covid-19
Closed January through March, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Years Day
Free admission
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Black Mountain College Museum & Art Center
Asheville, NC 28801
Monday – Saturday: 11:00a - 5:00p
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Colburn Earth Science Museum
Asheville, NC 28801
Hours:
Sunday: 1:00p - 5:00p
Tuesday - Saturday: 10:00a - 5:00p
The Colburn Earth Science Museum provides education through hands on exhibits.
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Estes-Winn Antique Car Museum (at Grovewood Village)
Asheville, NC 28804
Friday - Sunday: 10:00a - 5:00p
Closed January through March, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Years Day
Free Admission
A popular attraction at Grovewood Village is the Antique Car Museum, established in 1966 by Harry Blomberg - Asheville’s Cadillac-Pontiac dealer for over half a century and founder of modern day "Harry’s on the Hill". The museum is home to several antique and vintage automobiles that Harry and his dealership had come to own over time, including a rare 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham (only 400 made) and Asheville’s own 1922 American LaFrance fire truck.
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January - March
Monday - Saturday: 10:00a - 5:00p
Sunday: 11:00a - 5:00p
April - December
Monday - Saturday: 10:00a - 6:00p
Sunday: 11:00a - 5:00p
As you enter the rustic iron gate at Grovewood you will discover the art, craft, history, and Old World charm.This historic site once housed the weaving and woodworking operations of Biltmore Industries. It is on 11-acres and now houses artists studios, sculpture garden, the Biltmore Industries Homespun Museum and Asheville's only antique car museum.
Leisurely walk and enjoy the beautifully landscaped sculpture gardens. Visit a working artist's studio and discover a collection of rare automobiles from years past.
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Wednesday - Saturday: 10:00a - 4:00p
Sunday: 12:00p - 4:00p
Smith-McDowell House Museum is Asheville's first mansion and the oldest surviving house as well as the oldest brick structure in Buncombe county. The Smith-McDowell house is one of the most beautiful and opulent homes in the area.
The house was built in the 1840s. It is a blend of architectural styles dating from its original 1840 construction and additions completed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The floor plan is typical of the Adam style, better known as the Federal style in America. It was built as a five-bay mansion with a double-tiered front porch supported by twelve slender fluted columns. Each three-bay end wall has a pair of interior chimneys. The brick walls are 12 to 20 inches thick. The interior of the house contains much of the original Greek Revival woodwork. the second floor's mantels, window frames, and door frames are original, dating from the 1840s. A one-story semicircular sunroom was added to the southern end wall in the late 1880s.
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Southern Appalachian Radio Museum
Asheville, NC 28801
The Southern Appalachian Radio Museum is located in the Elm Building Room 315 at AB Tech Campus. The Southern Appalachian Radio Museum exhibits range from Atwater Kent, Philco, Silvertone, Edison phonographs, Crosley, Hammarlund, Harvey Wells, test instruments, spark gap transmitters, keys, ancient QSL cards and more!
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Southern Highland Craft Guild Folk Art Center
Asheville, NC 28805
January – March: Monday - Sunday: 9:00a - 5:00p
April – December: Monday - Sunday: 9:00a - 6:00p
Closed: Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years
The Folk Art Center is home to the Southern Highland Craft Guild. The Folk Art Center is located at Milepost 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The Folk Center features traditional and contemporary crafts of the Southern Appalachians. There are many one of a kind handmade items for sale. There are also daily craft demonstrations and visitors are invited to watch the artists create their pieces and talk about their craft.
Free Admission and Free Parking
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Because Thomas Wolfe's writing of his memories growing up in the boarding house were so frank and realistic his book Look Homeward, Angel was banned from Asheville's public library for more than 7 years when it was first printed.