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Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center

About Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center

The visitor center at Wright Brothers National Memorial is the best place to start your visit to the national park. The visitor center offers trip planning information, a park store, and detailed hands-on exhibits that bring the invention of the Wright Brothers to life. Not to miss, is the reproduction 1903 flyer in the Flight Room. Here, you can see up-close what the flyer looked like, and explore the workings of powered flight.

Park Passport stamps are available here.

Adapted from National Park Service.

National Park Service visitor center
Founded
1960
Architect
Romaldo Giurgola, Ehrman Mitchell

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Photos of Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center

  1. Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center, Kill Devil Hills01Kill Devil HillsUnknown authorUnknown author · Public domain
  2. Inside Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center02Inside Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor CenterJarek Tuszyński · CC BY 3.0
  3. Gift of Flight, Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina03Gift of Flight, Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center, Kill Devil Hills, North CarolinaKen Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
  4. Field for Flight, Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina04Field for Flight, Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, North CarolinaKen Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
  5. Four Powered Flights, Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina05Four Powered Flights, Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, North CarolinaKen Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
  6. Living Quarters and Hangar, Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina06Living Quarters and Hangar, Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, North CarolinaKen Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0

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Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 7.6 miles of Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center; the closest, Children at Play, is about 3.5 miles away.