[Ansteorra] Art Museums

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The Shire of Seawinds (Corpus Christi)?is very proud of our local Texas State Aquarium, The USS Lexington museum ( Large carrier in our Bay), Corpus Christi Science and History Musuem ( replicas of the Columbus Ships), Botanicial Gardens, The Asian Cultures Museum ( beautiful and educational),??and the Corpus Christi Art Museum.

They once had a package deal where you get into all the local attractions for a low price.

http://www.cctexas.com/?fuseaction=main.view&page=1634

The Corpus Christi History and Science Museum has this amazing Spanish Dome that was shipped here from Spain that pre-dates the SCA. A Hand carved wooden room. I love to sit in there. You can see a picture of the outside of the room at the top of this webpage:

http://www.cctexas.com/?fuseaction=main.view&page=2562

South Texas history has strong ties to period Spanish exploration, early farming techniques, Mexican War, making cloth.. ect. It is a wonderful but small museum.

At the downtown library geneology section there is a map of the area dates in the 1500 by Spanish exploration. 
http://www.library.ci.corpus-christi.tx.us/localhistory.htm?and http://www.library.ci.corpus-christi.tx.us/earlymaps.htm

There is also white sandy beach at the Padre Island?National Seashore or Mustang Island State Park. Ride horses on the beach. Ride accross a cool " Free" ferry at Port Aransas to watch the dolphins. There is also the Art Center of South Texas a little further out is the?Fulton Mansion, King Ranch -Huge Texas History there.
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/fulton_mansion/hist.phtml
http://www.king-ranch.com/museum.html

If you are a science nut as well as a historical nut... I would suggest checking out the Coastal bend Bays and Estuaries program at: http://www.cbbep.org/
The Nueces River ( fresh water) meets the salt of Corpus Christi Bay. In this area there is some amazing wildlife are only found in this biological setting.

http://www.texasescapes.com/TOWNS/Corpus_Christi/Corpus_Christi_Texas.htm

If you like gambling there is the Texas Treasures Casino Ship in Port Aransas.

Once a year we even celebrate being pirates! http://www.bucdays.com/

Let me know if anyone is interested and I will gladly be your local tour guide. I was born and raised here. 

HL Caley

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexandria Doyle <garbaholic at gmail.com>
To: Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc. <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 1:28 am
Subject: [Ansteorra] Art Museums



Any suggestions for Texas art museums with European Reconnaissance art
- paintings and prints, a decent natural history and science museum
and a good zoo and aquarium close by would be nice too.  I'm trying to
playing a weekend trip with daughter and granddaughter for this summer
and just don't seem to be coming up with the right search words.  If
we can't come up with all the things we want to see in one place, we
can make several stops, but we want to get to planning now...

Help would be appreciated

alex
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know, having to suddenly make presents for everyone, sickness,flood,
injury, mosquito infestations, not enough silk in the house, it's
Friday..."  ;)
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