If you ever have the chance, visit on a 1st and 3rd Sunday for the Drawing Hour.
One of the best art museums in the United States. A hidden treasure in the Twin Cities!
Despite what it looks like, entrance to the museum is always free! The prices and ticket booths at the entrance are only donations.
Only so many people are allowed in at a given time. Buy your ticket in advance and as soon as you arrive in Florence.
The museum is not designed for large crowds. Buy your tickets in advance to avoid lines and to guarantee entrance.
If you arrive before noon, expect long lines to do all the cruise ships and tour buses that show up at the same time. If you come in the afternoon, you will see much smaller crowds.
Visit the NASA sponsored exhibit "Moving Beyond Earth" which through interactive displays and artifacts will highlight our moving into space, living and working there, and then envisioning our future. Leia mais.
The National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center became the new home for Space Shuttle Discovery, which retired after completing its 39th mission in March 2011. Leia mais.
The Getty Villa is the only reconstruction of a Roman Patrician country home in the United States
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is one of the largest and most complete research libraries in the United States and includes a copy of the Gutenberg Bible
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is the largest natural history museum in the western United States with more than 33 million specimens and artifacts
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) holds one of the country’s most comprehensive collections of American and European art created since 1940, with more than 5,000 objects
The museum opened on July 19, 2002 and is the only public museum in the United States solely dedicated to espionage that has shaped history and continues to have a significant impact on world events.
The Smithsonian Institution was founded for the "increase and diffusion" of knowledge from a bequest to the United States by the British scientist James Smithson, who had never visited the US himself.
Originally called the National Air Museum when it was formed on August 12, 1946 by an act of Congress, some pieces in the National Air and Space Museum collection date back to 1876.
A group of Spanish explorers made the first written record of the tar pits in 1769. The oldest known material from the tar pit dates back over 38,000 years.
