EUE/Screen Gems Studios plans to resume studio tours in May, officials said.

The studio is prepared to help the new shows they have filming on its lot by enjoying buzz from such tours, said Susan Dosier, public relations counsel for the studio. Such new shows include Sleepy Hollow and Under the Dome.

EUE/Screen Gems previously hosted tours but suspended them for security reasons during the filming of Iron Man 3, which filmed locally in 2012 and came out last year.

Tours of the popular series One Tree Hill were a mainstay for the studio until the series wrapped in 2012, dismantling its sets in the process.

EUE/Screen Gems is ready to welcome the public back to its lots, officials said, and is preparing for the launch.

“The idea of having the public walking around on a set that needs to be safe for the talent and for the public provides numerous logistical and legal considerations. At this time, we’re working through those logistics with our clients,” Dosier said.

She said studio officials are also concentrating on the upcoming legislative debate about the extension of North Carolina’s film tax incentives.

The return of studio tours is just one of many new events in 2014 that area tourism officials believe will increase the draw of visitors to the Wilmington area.

• The Cameron Art Museum launches two new exhibits in February.

First is “Requiem in Glass: Brady’s Greenhouse An Installation by
Harry Taylor,” an exhibition focusing on photographer Matthew Brady.

Brady lived from 1822 to1896 and was largely responsible for the first photographic documentation of the Civil War. As the war came to a close, Brady found himself struggling with poverty and was forced to sell almost all of his glass plate negatives to pay off debts. The negatives were then used and recycled to build greenhouses. The images, however, were lost when the sun’s rays burned the imagery.

Local photographer Harry Taylor has reimagined the greenhouses as they may have appeared during Reconstruction before the sun burned them. Taylor’s installation displays more than 300 features of glass plate images of Civil War photography and the Cape Fear region, officials said.

The second exhibit is “Bruce Barclay Cameron Duck Decoy Collection.” The exhibition displays numerous duck decoys that the well-traveled huntsman Bruce Barclay Cameron Jr. collected throughout his lifetime.

Both displays run from Feb. 8 through June 1.

Other upcoming attractions, according to the Wilmington and Beaches Convention & Visitors Bureau, include:

• At Airlie Gardens, a new sculpture exhibit by renowned artist Gary Caldwell will be shown this summer. Caldwell’s work features three dimensional stainless steel creations of trees, flowers and creatures. The display runs from May through September.

• The Battleship North Carolina is getting ready to begin a new three-year process to repair the ship’s hull. Due to the length of the repair process, the ship will remain open to visitors. Along with the hull, the ship’s main deck is also being refurbished. The process continues a trend of recent renovations to the ship, following lighting upgrades to make both the exhibit hall and visitors center more energy efficient.

• Burgwin-Wright House and Gardens has added a gift shop and a landscaped courtyard, which is now available for event rentals.

• And the Cape Fear Museum of History and Science will offer special exhibits in 2014. First is “Nano,” an interactive nanoscale science exhibition designed specifically for family audiences. The museum also will display “A View from Space,” a bilingual interactive exhibit where visitors will be able to see the world from a satellite’s perspective.