When you stay in one of the hotels Greensboro, North Carolina, makes available to its visitors, you’ll find yourself in three cities known as The Piedmont Triad, or more simply, The Triad.  Lying in the north central area of the state, Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, creating a combined metropolis of a little over a million and a half people.  The area is known for its history in the Civil Rights Movement, as well as its place in the American Revolution.  All three cities together offer up an interesting cultural experience in the form of the Triad Museums.

The Triad Museums consist of approximately sixteen museums, from children’s museums to science museums, to a place known as the world’s strangest house, Korner’s Folly.   Korner’s Folly was built over a hundred and twenty-five years ago in 1880, and consists of 22 rooms and 15 fireplaces, as well as three floors spread across seven levels.  It’s a maze of architecture designed by Jule Gilmer Korner, ceilings are anywhere from six feet to twenty-five feet tall, with none of the doorways alike, with trap doors and pivoting windows, and artwork and murals.  Some rooms are built for the size of children, while others are built for giants.

Perhaps even more interestingly about this eccentric space is that after the attic space, as far as anyone knows, eventually became the venue for the United States first private theater.

Other museums in the Triad include some of the following: The Natural Science Center;  the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art; the Tannenbaum Historic Park; the Weatherspoon Museum at the University of North Carolina;  the Reynolda House, Museum of American Art; the Peterson Doll and Miniature Museum; Old Salem (which recreates the life and times of historical Salem); the Museum of Anthropology; and the Greensboro Children’s Museum.   If you like museums, the Triad is a great place to find them.

Triad Museums in the Greensboro Area is a post from: Surfing The Channel

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