Childhood secrets are hiding in the dirt. Months after crops are harvested and fields stripped to bare brown, the slanted rays of morning or evening sunlight fire large circular patterns of crushed ...

Like other museums, Marbles Kids Museum reopened back in September as North Carolina officials lifted COVID-related restrictions. The downtown Raleigh museum's IMAX theater also is open again, ...

Gently trying to get the marbles to roll through the paint and thus do the painting was the goal. The puddles of color spread ...

Featured: Rare, single-pontil End of Day marble with heavy floating blizzard mica; pink opaque lutz marble with red bands; shrunken core onionskin marble with white, yellow, orange and blue colors ...

Part of our NPR Ed series on why people play and how play relates to learning. For me, there was no other childhood experience that taught me more about math or about life than those shiny, wonderful, ...

Wake county foster families now have greater access to Marbles Kids Museum with free memberships that cover admission to the kids museum.