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The Clearwater area's best kept secret is the Pinewood
Cultural Park. Over 180 acres, the park incorporates
pleasure with education relating to local history, nature
and the environment and the visual arts. Heritage
Village, a 21-acre open-air living history museum
amid tall pines and palmettos, offers 23 of the county's
oldest structures, with two dating back to the Civil
War era. The
Florida Botanical Gardens features all Florida plants,
both native and non-native with wildlife nesting habitat,
restored wetlands and natural bridges interacting with
the more formal gardens. The
Gulf Coast Museum Of Art features a permanent collection
of contemporary Florida art in all its manifestations
with a special focus on fine contemporary craft media
objects from the 12 southeastern states.
The Clearwater area is enriched by and enlightened through
our world-class
museums such as the Salvador
Dali, home of the largest collection of his work
outside Spain, the Florida
Holocaust Memorial Museum and Educational Center
bringing the depth of emotion from that era, and the
Museum
of Fine Arts with its elegant building showcasing
world-renown artists. The Leepa-Rattner
Museum of Arts features an extensive expressionist
collection by Allen Leepa and Abraham Rattner, including
their friends Picasso, Rouault, Hofmann and Ernst. The
Florida International Museum will host a very special
exhibition this year featuring 250 superlative pieces
from the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg spanning
over 800 years of Russian history.
Our museums are not just for adults. Children and their
parents will find the exhibits within Great
Explorations-The Hands On Museum stimulating and
intriguing, designed to be touched, moved and explored.
The David
L. Mason Children’s Art Museum with its playful
themes makes fine arts fun through intelligent, interactive
experiences including cartoon-making, acting and stop-motion
animation. Click here for a complete list of
museums.
Outstanding theaters characterize the Clearwater area.
Constructed in 1983 by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation,
Ruth
Eckerd Hall at the Richard B. Baumgardner Center
for the Performing Arts, is well known and respected
for its acoustics and state-of-the-art equipment and
offers a wide range of performances for every age. Clearwater’s
"community" Royalty Theater, located in historic downtown
Clearwater, showcases an extremely wide variety of performance
types. Click here for a complete list of performing
arts and dinner theaters.
With our weather, it is natural the arts come outside.
For example, Shakespeare in the Park brings the bard
to life in a way not experienced indoors. Art shows
decorate the waterfront and our parks. Known for our
outdoor concerts overlooking the water either at Coachman
Park in downtown or on beautiful Clearwater Beach, all
types of musical professionals visit during the year,
especially on holiday weekends.
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