ASTC Passport Program science centers in North Carolina
We list 19 science centers in North Carolina that take a ASTC Passport Program membership, across 16 towns and cities. The largest clusters are Wilmington, Asheville and Raleigh.
The best known science centers on the list
- Hands On! Children’s Museum Hendersonville
- North Carolina Transportation Museum Spencer
- Museum of Coastal Carolina and Ingram Planetarium Ocean Isle Beach
How the 90 mile rule works in North Carolina
ASTC Passport Program does not apply within 90 miles of the institution where you hold your membership, and in a state this shape that matters differently depending on where you joined.
- Hands On! Children’s Museum members lose 4 of the other 18 places in the state to the exclusion, and keep 14.
- North Carolina Transportation Museum members lose 7 of the other 18 places in the state to the exclusion, and keep 11.
- Museum of Coastal Carolina and Ingram Planetarium members lose 2 of the other 18 places in the state to the exclusion, and keep 16.
Planning a trip around North Carolina
Wilmington is the busiest single base: 2 of the 19 are within 25 miles of it, so one day out covers 11% of the state list. Another 16 sit more than 100 miles away, and the list spans about 284 miles end to end, so the rest is a second trip rather than a detour.
Every ASTC Passport Program place in North Carolina
- Airlie Gardens Wilmington, NC
- Asheville Museum of Science Asheville, NC
- Cape Fear Museum of History and Science Wilmington, NC
- Catawba Science Center Hickory, NC
- Children’s Museum & Science Center, Imperial Centre for the Arts & Sciences Rocky Mount, NC
- Discovery Place Charlotte, NC
- Discovery Place Kids-Huntersville Huntersville, NC
- Hands On! Children’s Museum Hendersonville, NC
- Imagination Station Science & History Museum Wilson, NC
- Kaleideum Winston-Salem, NC
- Marbles Kids Museum Raleigh, NC
- Morehead Planetarium and Science Center Chapel Hill, NC
- Museum of Coastal Carolina and Ingram Planetarium Ocean Isle Beach, NC
- Museum of Life and Science Durham, NC
- North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Raleigh, NC
- North Carolina Transportation Museum Spencer, NC
- Port Discover Elizabeth City, NC
- Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium Gastonia, NC
- Western North Carolina Nature Center Asheville, NC