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Your AI tour guide for the North Carolina Museum of Art

Photograph a work in the North Carolina Museum of Art and Lensmark tells you who made it, when, and why it matters, with every fact linked to its source.

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North Carolina Museum of Art

Raleigh, United States

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Take a photo and read the work's sourced story

Illustrative photo demo

Illustrative collection

  1. Take a permitted photo Use a photo allowed by the museum's current rules.
  2. Read the sourced history When Lensmark can verify the work, it explains what the sources support and links to them. When it cannot, it says so plainly.
  3. Ask a follow-up Continue with a question about the work's maker, age or significance.
  4. Your North Carolina Museum of Art walk saves itself. Just take pictures. Each work is kept with its sourced history, grouped by day.

Images in the demo: The Cliff, Étretat, Sunset, Claude Monet, 1882 to 1883; Portrait of Madame X Dressed for the Matinée, Mary Cassatt, 1877–78. Both are North Carolina Museum of Art works reproduced as cropped details from public-domain files on Wikimedia Commons.

What the North Carolina Museum of Art collection covers

The North Carolina Museum of Art brings gallery collections and a 164-acre Museum Park together in Raleigh. The People's Collection spans more than 5,000 years of art and culture. About the museum

The Raleigh campus includes East and West gallery buildings as well as outdoor art installations. Its collection holds paintings, sculpture, antiquities, prints and drawings, photography and textiles.

Its collection strengths include European painting and sculpture, American art, ancient Mediterranean and Egyptian art, global African arts, and modern and contemporary art.

  • The Cliff, Étretat, Sunset

    Claude Monet

    Date
    1882 to 1883

    Monet painted the cliffs of Étretat on the Normandy coast. The museum purchased this oil painting with funds from the State of North Carolina.

    Read the museum record

  • The Kiss

    Auguste Rodin

    Date
    Modeled about 1881 (cast at a later date)

    Rodin depicted Paolo and Francesca, whose story appears in Dante’s Inferno. This bronze is a gift of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation.

    Read the museum record

  • Portrait of Madame X Dressed for the Matinée

    Mary Cassatt

    Date
    1877–78

    Cassatt portrayed a woman dressed for an afternoon at the theater. The sitter’s identity remains unknown.

    Read the museum record

These are collection records, not confirmation that the works are on display today.

Check the photography rules first

The North Carolina Museum of Art permits personal, noncommercial still photography of the collection with possible special-exhibition limits, prohibits tripods, monopods, selfie sticks and video cameras, specifies no flash in its tour guidance, and requires prior authorization for commercial photography or video in the Park, where drones are prohibited. Read its current visitor conditions and follow gallery signs before taking a photo. North Carolina Museum of Art photography policy

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