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  2. Statue of Christopher Columbus (Houston) - Wikipedia

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    The sculpture was vandalized with red paint in August 2017. The Houston Chronicle noted that the vandalism occurred around the same time that protesters demanded the removal of Confederate monuments and memorials in Houston, and the same day that the city's statue of Martin Luther King Jr. was vandalized with white paint.

  3. List of monuments and memorials to Christopher Columbus

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    Christopher Columbus Statue (1970, 1986, 1995) located at Columbus Plaza (W. Main Street and Lawrence Hill Rd.) Lackawanna. Bust of Christopher Columbus (1940) located at Bethlehem Park, Madison Ave. Lindenhurst. Columbus Monument (1991) 7-foot-tall monument [186] Mahopac. Christopher Columbus Statue (1992) located at Thompson & McAlpin Streets ...

  4. Houston Museum District - Wikipedia

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    Thursdays the Museum District gets particularly crowded because of museum free days. On Thursdays, The Children's Museum of Houston is free after 5 p.m., [3] The Health Museum is free from 2–7 pm, [4] and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is free 11 am - 9 pm. [5] The Houston Museum of Natural Science is free on Tuesdays between 5-8 pm. [6]

  5. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston - Wikipedia

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    As a non-collecting museum, it strives to provide a forum for visual arts of the present and recent past and document new directions in art, while engaging the public and encouraging a greater understanding of contemporary art through education programs. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston opened in 1972, in a building designed by Gunnar Birkerts. [2]

  6. List of museums in Columbus, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of museums in Columbus, Ohio and non-profit and university art galleries. The city's first museum was the Walcutt Museum, opened July 1851. At its opening, the museum had about six wax figures and a few paintings. It grew to have about 20 wax figures, several hundred animal specimens, and about 100 quality oil paintings. [1]

  7. List of museums in the Texas Gulf Coast - Wikipedia

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    20th Century Technology Museum. The list of museums in the Texas Gulf Coast encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.

  8. Statue of Christopher Columbus (Columbus City Hall) - Wikipedia

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    The 2020 George Floyd protests in Columbus renewed calls to remove the statue, with petitions circulating to also remove other statues of the explorer and to rename the city. [6] The statue's removal was announced on June 18, with Columbus mayor Andrew Ginther announcing plans for a work of art that better represents the people of Columbus. The ...

  9. Christopher Columbus Explaining His Intended Voyage

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    It is also known by the longer title Christopher Columbus in the Convent of La Rabida Explaining His Intended Voyage. [4] Wilkie had visited Spain in the late 1820s, where he had met and befriended the American author Washington Irving. The painting was inspired by a passage from Irving's biography of Christopher Columbus. [5]

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