Museum Of Art San Diego

According to the Balboa Park information brochure, the San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) is "the county's largest and most visited art museum." While it can't compare to the museums in Los Angeles (such as the Getty Center), it's still worth a visit if you're a fan of museums and find yourself at 1El Prado in Balboa Park, San Diego, california.

You'll find many famous names here, Dali, Goya, Rembrandt, Giorgione, Canova, Miro, Bouguereau, Murillo, - they've even a work by Giotto. All are fine works. One thing I appreciated (and which rather surprised me, given the museum's situation in family-destination Balboa Park) was the absence of velvet ropes or Plexiglas shields. You keep your hands behind your back, and you are welcome to stick your nose right up to the brushstrokes of William-Adolphe Bouguereau and count them individually.

Beautiful architecture on the outside and on the inside. The dominant feature of the facade is a heavily ornamented door inspired by a doorway at the University of Salamanca. The Cathedral of Valladolid also influenced the museum's exterior design. And there's always something interesting going on in San Diego's Museum of Art (SDMA). Don't miss it.

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Balboa Park - The Soul Of San Diego

Balboa Park in San Diego, CA, the nation's largest urban park, includes the San Diego Zoo and many museums and gardens.

A symbol of San Diego, the iconic California Tower has served as a magnificent entry to Balboa Park since its construction for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition. The majestic tower, home to beautiful bells that chime every quarter hour, soars 200 feet above the California Building, which houses the anthropology-oriented San Diego Museum of Man.

The California Building has been mentioned more often than any other San Diego building in studies of American architecture. Though the building's facade is impressive, the three-stage tower is iconic in San Diego. The outline of the tower is Spanish, but its details and color are reflective of Mexico. The shining tiles, sparkling glass beads, and graceful proportions of the tower complement the central dome, as well as the two minor domes behind the California Building.

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Esperson Buildings Houston Tx

The Esperson buildings are two historical buildings that enrich the Houston downtown landscape. We can see the circular temple structure on top of the taller Neils Esperson building from afar. I love walking by these buildings and thinking about the wonderful stories of how:
- the wife Mellie Esperson built the first ornate building to commemorate her husband;
- she later built the second shorter and simpler building under her name right next door;
- there are haunted stories of how Mellie still haunts the building.

There are so many great little details about the buildings, like the architect's plaque outside of the building, the building crest on the inside hand rails, and cow skull sculptural motifs on the outside (so Texan!).

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