The North Carolina Museum is having a Family Day on June 6th,11am – 4pm. Learn how pirates have been a part of North Carolina’s legends and history! Meet pirate re-enactors, learn how to tie nautical knots, try your hand at navigation, and make crafts. Find out why pirates were welcome here during the 1700s. Admission to Knights of the Black Flag is free all day.

Some of the day’s activities are as follows:

• Go on a treasure hunt through the exhibit Knights of the Black Flag.
• Find out about life aboard a sailing ship.
• Learn some of the games pirates played.
• Watch craftspeople create a ship in a bottle or make iron nails at a forge.
• Hear from someone who dives to the underwater site of the shipwreck believed to be Blackbeard’s flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge.
• Tie a sailing knot or two, and learn about the Sea Scouts.
• Find out about early colonial life in North Carolina.
• Make your own model boat.
• Learn about state historic sites and museums.