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THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART The newest museum in Fort Worth's Cultural District, the Museum of Modern Art. |
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Looking north at the front of Fort Worth's Modern Art Museum. We do not know if those are art pieces hovering above the building. The one in the middle sort of looks like a rocket. Perhaps the work of art is called 'Ode to Crane'. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Here we see The Modern's Tower of Rust sharing space with other
vertical items like power poles and trees. We are hopeful that the
long range plan for the Cultural District would be to bury the power
lines so as to get rid of the view obstructing power poles.
For more information about the Art Museum and the Tower of Rust visit their Official Website. |
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We did not realize taking photographs inside the Modern Art Museum was forbidden until after the fact. In this bootleg photo the Eyes on Texas Spy Cam is looking out across the Museum's reflecting pool. That is the Café Modern jutting out into the pool on the right. And in the distance you see the skyline of beautiful downtown Fort Worth. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This Fort Worth museum may be a Modern Art Museum, but this stairway between floors seems quite primitive. The Eyes on Texas Spy Cam surreptitiously photographed the line waiting to go level 2. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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THE KIMBELL ART MUSEUM
The Museum of Modern Art is behind us, we are looking west towards the backside of the Kimbell Art Museum and a disturbing sculpture of what would appear to be a woman with a gaping wound. |
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Looking north towards the Kimbell Art Museum. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This would appear to be some sort of sculpture outside
the west entry to the Kimbell Art Museum.
For more information about the Kimbell Art Museum visit their Official Website. |
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A pair of frisbee tossers playing in the grassy field between the Kimbell Museum and the Amon Carter Museum. The Cultural District is a park-like atmosphere, with tree lined boulevards. flowers and a lot of open space. A few weeks after a tornado destroyed much of downtown Fort Worth, way back in 2000, the Main Street Arts Festival was moved from downtown to this area of the Cultural District. It was a very pleasant venue for that event. With the Main Street Arts Festival being such a good cultural event it would seem like a good idea to hold it every year in the Cultural District. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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THE AMON CARTER MUSEUM Looking east towards beautiful downtown Fort Worth from in front of the Amon Carter Museum. |
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This is the new Amon Carter Museum, which replaced the
old museum a few years ago. The museum recently reopened after a
lengthy closure due to the need to fix leaking plumbing.
For more information about the Amon Carter Museum visit their Official Website.
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Another view of the Amon Carter Museum. The University of North Texas Health Science Center hovers ominously above the museum, as it seems to do over much of the Cultural District. Interestingly and maybe ironically, it was the University of North Texas Health Science Center which indirectly caused us to move to Texas. |
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THE FORT WORTH ARTS CENTER The Fort Worth Arts Center hosts a variety of events, including plays, music and art exhibits. We attended a play at the Arts Center, the Broadway musical from the 60s called HAIR. The play was put on by either Texas Christian University or Texas Wesleyan University. Both are Christian affiliated schools, TCU connected to the Disciples of Christ and TWU affiliated with the United Methodist Church. We can't remember for certain which school performed HAIR, but we lean towards TWU. Either way, it was surprising to see the play, performed by one of the local Christian schools, here in the buckle of the bible belt, and to see the play's infamous nude scenes performed intact. No one seemed shocked. |
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Yes, there is a McDonald's in Fort Worth's Cultural District,
along with many other fine restaurants. In this photo it would appear that
the Cultural District McDonald's is part of the Fort Worth Arts Center, but
that is an optical illusion, the McDonald's is actually across the street
from the Arts Center.
For more information about the Fort Worth Arts Center visit their Official Website. |
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THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY
Here we are looking up towards Fort Worth's Museum of Science and History's IMAX Theater. For more information about the Museum of Science and History go to their Official Website. |
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THE NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM
The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame is the only museum on the planet whose sole purpose is to honor the women of the American West's pioneer spirit and courage. The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame is currently serving double duty by helping out the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History during its period of construction. |
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A statue of a Cowgirl outside the museum entrance, looking as
if she is trying to decide if she wants to go inside or stay outside
enjoying the pleasant Fall temperatures.
We attended the parade that celebrated the opening of the Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame. Take a look at the parade. |
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Benches outside the entry to the Cowgirl Museum showing a
fine cowgirl eye for detail which you can see by clicking the photo to view
a bigger image.
For the latest information about all matters pertaining to the Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame visit the Cowgirl's Official Website. |
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THE STOCK SHOW GROUNDS
Yes, this building is called the Amon G. Carter Exhibits Hall, but, no, it is not part of the Amon Carter Museum. This Exhibit Hall is part of Fort Worth's fairgrounds complex, where the annual Stock Show is held. Stock Show is a fancy name for an event of the sort that others call State Fair, such at the State Fair of Texas. The statue of a bucking bronco in front of the Exhibit Hall honors the "World's Greatest Bucking Horse", Midnight (1910-1936). From the inscription below the statue, "A Legend In His Own Time As He Is Today". During the course of Midnight's bucking career only 9 men managed to stay aboard. |
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Another example of the park-like nature of the Cultural District. Here we are looking across a grassy field at the tower that stands in front of Will Rogers Coliseum which serves as sort of a symbol, maybe, of the Cultural District, but certainly a symbol of the Fort Worth Stock Show. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
One of the entries into Will Rogers Coliseum. A very graphic mural surrounds the top of the coliseum. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A close up look at part of the mural depicting life in Texas that sits atop Will Rogers Coliseum. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Now we are looking up from the base of the tower we saw in the distance 3 pictures above. The tower sort of reminds us of the Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Standing on the eastern fringe of the Cultural District, a bit north of Casa Mañana and a bit southeast of the Modern Art Museum, looking towards the skyline of beautiful downtown Fort Worth. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Here we see Fort Worth ISD's Farrington Field. A football stadium. Which would seem totally appropriate for a Texas Cultural District, what with high school football playing such a large role in the culture of Texas. For those reading this who are not privy to all things Texan and who are wondering what an ISD is, it means Independent School District. We do not know if this means there are also Dependent School Districts. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CASA MANANA THEATRE
Casa Mañana Theatre, located a short distance east of Will Rogers Coliseum at 1301 West Lancaster Avenue, has been putting on shows ever since 1936 when Amon Carter somehow got Broadway legend Billy Rose to come to Fort Worth and produce the "Show of Shows". Casa Mañana is the biggest arts company in Tarrant County and serves as a center for live theater for all of North Texas. For more information about shows and schedules visit the Casa Mañana Official Website. |
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FORT WORTH BOTANIC GARDEN
There is no older botanic garden in Texas than the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The FWBG is a lush landscape of color and vegetation with over 2,500 species of plants thriving in the Botanic Gardens 109 acres of 21 Specialty Gardens, some of which are the Rose Garden, the highly regarded Japanese Garden, the Fragrance Garden, the Perennial Garden, the Native Texas Forest Boardwalk and a Water Conservation Garden to show you what you can grow using much less water than you likely are using now. There is a large glassed greenhouse Conservatory where you follow a path and see things like orchids and bananas growing. For more info visit the Fort Worth Botanic Garden's Official Website. |
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RECENTLY BLOGGED ABOUT FORT WORTH'S WONDERFUL BOTANIC GARDEN, IN OUR OPINION, THE BEST PART OF THE CULTURAL DISTRICT |
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On Wednesdays entry to the Modern Art Museum is free. The Cultural District is very busy on Wednesday. In this photo you see only a few of the busses that had delivered school children to the district for some good cultural exposure. |
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TRINITY PARK
Here we see Mark Twain cast in bronze, reading a book while sitting on a bench overlooking the Trinity River in Trinity Park. Fort Worth's Cultural District's Trinity Park is a greenbelt of trees and grass with fishing holes, duck ponds and access to the river. Trinity Park is also the site of the annual spring festival known as Mayfest, held the first weekend of May. For information about Mayfest visit their Official Website. |
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Fort Worth's Cultural District's light rail transit system,
known as the Forest Park Miniature Railroad, carries passengers on a 40
minute round trip excursion from the Forest Park Depot to the Duck Pond in
Trinity Park. In this photo we see the train crossing a 350 foot long girder
bridge across the Trinity River, very daringly and dangerously, judging by
the sign on the bridge which you see here just to the left of the
locomotive, with the sign saying "FORBIDDEN ZONE. NO TRESPASSING.
City of Fort Worth RAW WATER INTAKE". The train must receive some
sort of special dispensation in order to enter the FORBIDDEN ZONE.
For more information about the Forest Park Miniature Railroad visit their Official Website. |
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IN THE FORT WORTH CULTURAL DISTRICT The Fort Worth Zoo & Log Cabin Village |
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