Film Locations - Science and Technology

Durham Regional Hospital
3643 N Roxboro Rd

  • 451-bed facility - contemporary seven stories, white concrete exterior.
  • Set back from street offering generous road frontage and grass lawn

GlaxoSmithKline
5 Moore Dr (headquarters)
Research Triangle Park

Glaxo
  • Major pharmaceutical research company with two separate campuses
  • Research labs, videoconferencing suites, executive and board rooms and offices
  • Strikingly modern architecture with manicured grounds
  • R&D building sports a four-story glass atrium with spiral staircase and elevators.
  • Guard gates entrance to driveway

MagicWings Butterfly House

Magic Wings Butterfly House

Museum of Life and Science
433 Murray Ave.

Museum of Science and Math
  • 50,000 square foot regional, interactive science-technology center
  • 78 acres, combining science with fun
  • Apollo XVI, one of the nation's four unlaunched lunar landers
  • Restored Piedmont Airliner
  • Magic Wings Butterfly House, Bayer CropScience Insectarium, amusement park railway, dinosaur trail and petting zoo

RDU International Airport Terminal C [map]
Exit 284 off I-40

  • 1980s American Airlines hub

Research Triangle Park
Durham Freeway, exits 5 through 8
I-40, exits 279 and 280

Research Triangle Park
  • Created from southeast Durham pinelands and farmland in 1959
  • 7,000 acres, eight miles long and two miles wide, 13 million square feet under roof
  • One of the largest research parks in the world
  • Many dramatic buildings in mini tracks of 8 acres, plans must be approved, building can cover only 30% of land
  • GlaxoSmithKline Campus filmed in Natalie Wood's Brainstorm in 1981