'Tis the season for corn mazes—and plenty of a-maizing maze-related corn puns. Our Halloween and fall fun database list lots of massive corn mazes across the region where you'll have hours of fun getting lost and finding your way out.

This year, the NC Museum of Art waded into the maize maze scene. But, as you might expect, this one isn't as much about getting lost as it is about learning about biotechnology and how it's shaping our genetic futures.

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The educational aspect of the maze is subtle. There's a large panel near an entrance with more information about the story it's telling. Adults and tweens and teens, especially, might be interested in diving into the backstory of it all. Young kids will just love running among the tall cornstalks.

Corn maze at the NC Museum of Art
Teosinte to Tomrrow will remain at the art museum through the end of October.

The quarter-acre corn maze opened back in August and is part of a multi-site exhibition called Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures, which opens Oct. 17 and is a collaboration with the Gregg Museum of Art, NC State University Libraries and the Genetic Engineering and Society Center.

The maze itself is called From Teosinte to Tomorrow and, according to a press release, is intended to be a "conceptual walk back through agricultural history."

"At the center of the small stand of tropical field corn, you will find an interior room with a raised bed of teosinte, the wild grass thought to be an ancestor of modern corn," according to the release. "Through countless harvests, the skinny, hard kernels of teosinte grass were gradually cultivated and hybridized into today’s juicy and sweet corn on the cob."

The corn maze is found near the far end of the museum parking lot on Blue Ridge Road. It's far away from the museum buildings, but a quick walk from the parking lot if you do park at the very far end.

It sits across from Bee Downtown's on-site bee hives, which have lots of colorful panels about how bees do their thing and is worth a look.

Learn about bees at the NC Museum of Art
The hives sit across from the art museum's fall 2019 corn maze.

While you're there, be sure to check out Southern Oracle, where kids can scramble to the top of a roof with dormers.

The museum is at 2110 Blue Ridge Road. Admission is free to the museum and the park.

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