Durham City - Top 20 Places to Educate Your Child

The city of Durham is the county seat of Durham County but also has its territory extending to Wake and Orange Counties. It is one of the vertices of the Research Triangle together with Raleigh and Chapel Hill, and is home to higher learning institutions like Duke University and the North Carolina Central University. The city is included in the "Top 20 Places to Educate Your Child" a survey conducted by Forbes in December 2007.

Here are some of the key landmarks in Durham. The historical Carolina Theater is situated in downtown Durham and is being operated by a nonprofit organization. This Beaux-Arts style theatre was introduced in 1926 and is the last surviving among thirteen original theatres in the city. The North Carolina Museum of Life and Science provide visitors with hands-on exhibits that will made them appreciate the particularities of natural science. Among its most prized and popular exhibits are Aerospace that introduces the early NASA space program; Butterfly House, a three-story glass house that serves as conservatory of tropical butterflies; and Prehistoric Trail that features life-size plaster amphibians, reptiles and dinosaurs including the gigantic Brontosaurus, T-Rex and Triceratops. The latter two exhibits is actually categorized under, BioQuest which also includes Explore the Wild (serves as home for black bears and lemurs) and Catch the Wind, which demonstrates the influences of the wind in our environment.