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Bess Streeter Aldrich House.
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El Museo Latino. "El Museo Latino opened its
doors on May 5, 1993 as the first Latino museum in
Nebraska. The museum is located at 4701 South 25 Street
in Omaha, Nebraska. As Nebraska's only Latino art and
history museum, El Museo Latino exhibits the works by
local, national and international artists.
In conjunction to the exhibits, El Museo Latino develops
educational programs that include lectures, slide
presentaions, films, art classes, workshops,
demonstrations, art history classes, gallery talks,
guided visits, and dance classes. Some of the programs
are age specific for K-12, some for post secondary
students, and others are for an adult audience. In
addition, El Museo Latino is a resource and a center for
Latino studies in the Midwest."
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Fremont &
Elkhorn Valley Railroad. "Come relive a
portion of our nation's history aboard the FEVR in rail
cars dating from the 1920's! The Fremont & Elkhorn
Valley Railroad is Nebraska's longest and largest
tourist railroad. The path of this track was laid out in
1869, and until the mid-1980's served as the gateway
route for the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad to
northern Nebraska, Wyoming and South Dakota. The route
to Wyoming was known as the "Cowboy Line" and is now
being converted to a trail."
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Joslyn
Art Museum. "The Joslyn Art Museum has served as
a premier center for the visual arts since it opened in
1931. Nebraska's only fine arts museum with an
encyclopedic permanent collection, Joslyn features works
from antiquity to the present with a special emphasis on
19th- and 20th-century art from Europe and America.
Designed as a cultural center for the community, the
museum was built as a gift to Omaha from Sarah Joslyn in
memory of her husband George, a prominent Omaha
businessman and community leader. The building remains a
monument to their commitment to the arts."
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Omaha Children’s Museum.
"Founded in 1976 as a traveling workshop, the Omaha Children's Museum has
grown into a special place where children can challenge themselves, discover
how the world works, and learn through play. It is Omaha's only participatory
museum, a place where children and adults can learn and play together. The
Museum provides an ever-changing series of interactive exhibits, workshops,
and special events. It serves the entire community as well as school groups
and a large minority audience."
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Strategic Air &
Space Museum. "The Strategic Air & Space Museum is regarded as the
nation's foremost facility of its kind, the $29.5 million museum opened on May
16, 1998, and preserves aircraft and missiles for future generations. The Museum
is a 300,000 square foot building that features a glass atrium, two aircraft
display hangars, a traveling exhibit area, a children's interactive gallery, a
200-seat theater, a Museum store, an aircraft restoration gallery, and a snack
bar."
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The Union
Pacific Railroad Museum. "The Union Pacific Railroad Museum houses one
of the oldest corporate collections in the nation. It includes artifacts,
photographs and documents that trace the development of the railroad and the
American West. The Collection dates to the mid-1800's, featuring original
editions of reports from survey teams that searched for the best land route to
join the nation, east to west. Surveying equipment, early rail equipment, and
artifacts from the construction of the nation's first transcontinental railroad
tell the story of one of the world's construction marvels."
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