ASHEVILLE — A cannon ball, window glass and gold dust from the wreck of Blackbeard’s flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR), will be on exhibit at the Cultural Resources Western Office from May 31 to July 13. State and local officials will attend the May 31 ribbon cutting before the public opening on June 1. It [...]
BEAUFORT — North Carolina students in the 4th through 8th grades can free their imaginations and ask questions about Blackbeard and the wreck of his flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR), during a live online stream from the Watercraft Center at the N.C. Maritime Museum in Beaufort on Friday, May 31, from 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. They’ll learn how [...]
January 11, 2013 – 3:00 pm
BEAUFORT – Thanks to a grant from the Carteret Community Foundation, local educators can get the new Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge educational posters for free. In response to the growing demand for information and educational materials about the wreck of Blackbeard’s flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge, the North Carolina Maritime Museum staff will design a series of eight educational posters about the shipwreck project [...]
October 19, 2012 – 10:30 am
BEAUFORT – Gov. Bev Perdue joined N.C. Department of Cultural Resources Secretary Linda Carlisle in celebrating the scientific research and tourism benefits that have derived from the study of the shipwreck of Blackbeard’s flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge. It also was announced today at the N.C. Maritime Museum in Beaufort that more than $400,000 of a $450,000 goal [...]
October 15, 2012 – 4:00 pm
BEAUFORT–As part of “National Archaeology Day” the N.C. Maritime Museum in Beaufort will host a number of fun-filled activities related to the Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR) project on Saturday, Oct. 20, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. With a focus on artifacts recovered from the wreck of Blackbeard’s flagship, conservators will explain how the items are freed from the cement-like [...]
September 25, 2012 – 5:00 pm
RALEIGH–The N.C. Department of Cultural Resources announces the hiring of John W. Morris III as deputy state archaeologist and head of the state’s Underwater Archaeology Branch at Kure Beach. Morris is a nautical archaeologist with more than 25 years of field experience. His undergraduate studies were at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he was graduated with [...]
RALEIGH – Programs of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources will demonstrate that science and culture go together when participating in the North Carolina Science Festival. All across the state, from April 13 to 29, the North Carolina Science Festival will showcase science and technology through talks, performances, lab tours, nature experiences, and more. “Science is [...]
FAYETTEVILLE –Sail on over with your preschooler to the Museum of the Cape Fear on Tuesday, April 10, from 10 to 10:45 a.m. for some pirate fun at “Mommy, Me, and the Museum Make Three.” “Preschool Pirates” is held in conjunction with the museum’s current exhibit, Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge 1718. Children ages 3 to [...]
FAYETTEVILLE – A case exhibit of artifacts from the wreck Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR), (www.qaronline.org) Blackbeard’s flagship, is now on display at the Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex through May 31. The exhibit originated at the N.C. Maritime Museum in Beaufort, the official repository for the shipwreck artifacts, within the Division of State [...]
GREENVILLE - A lot can happen in 300 years, and an open house at the Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR) Conservation Lab on Saturday, April 21, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., will demonstrate the process of taking artifacts from ocean floor to museum door. Visitors will learn about the science concerning QAR, Blackbeard’s flagship that ran [...]
February 3, 2012 – 3:16 pm
BEAUFORT – The town of Beaufort, N.C., has a lot of fans who think that it is the coolest small town in America. While Beaufort officially tied for first place with Hammondsport, N.Y., it was on track to receive more votes in an online contest run by Budget Travel, until the Budget system crashed from [...]
February 2, 2012 – 4:21 pm
BEAUFORT – A small cannon recovered from the 1718 shipwreck of Blackbeard’s flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR), will be on display for the public in late February at the N.C. Maritime Museum in Beaufort. Other newly restored artifacts to be added to the museum’s ongoing Blackbeard exhibit include a pewter decorated wooden knife handle, cannon wadding, and [...]
October 25, 2011 – 1:31 pm
GREENVILLE –– When archaeologists raise an eight-foot cannon Wednesday, Oct. 26, from the wreck of the Queen Anne’s Revenge, students from East Carolina University will be receiving hands-on experience, not just observing from the decks of the recovery vessels. The cannon has been resting at the bottom of Beaufort Inlet since Blackbeard’s flagship, the Queen [...]
October 20, 2011 – 9:25 am
RALEIGH – When archaeologists at the wreck of Blackbeard’s flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR), raise an eight-foot long cannon on Wednesday, Oct. 26, it will be the public’s first view of the weapon after nearly 300 years on the ocean floor. Since 1997, the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources’ Underwater Archaeology Branch has led the [...]
In honor of the “Pirate’s!” musical program planned by the North Carolina Symphony at Koka Booth Amphitheater in Cary, N.C., Saturday, July 9, at 7:30 p.m., the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources will have artifacts on display from Blackbeard’s shipwreck “Queen Anne’s Revenge.” Dr. Jeffrey J. Crow, Deputy Secretary of Cultural Resources, along [...]