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AMOA-Laguna Gloria Museum Art
One of the finest museums of art and popular Austin Area is the Laguna Gloria Art Museum, which is an Italian-style villa which was originally the home of Henry and Clara Driscoll Sevier, and is located on the shores of Lake Austin, in west-central Austin.
The original house later became the museum was built in 1916 and enrolled in the National Register of Historic Places, the museum was the first house museum Art and Austin has been appointed to the lagoon were first considered as a natural part of the Colorado River before construction of Lake Austin. The land where the house was built by Stephen F. Austin in 1822 and intended to build a house there, but never, and their descendants later sold the property to Hal Sevier, who was the director of the Austin American Statesman, and his new wife, Clara Driscoll in 1914.
The Sevier home completed in 1916 in the style of an Italian villa after a trip to the region of Lake Como in Italy on their honeymoon, and after years of gardening and planting trees, flowers and foliage, Clara Driscoll donated to the city of Austin home for the new museum. In 1961, the house was transformed into an art museum and began offering art classes and exhibitions and other events and attractions for the public.
In 1983, an additional 5,300 square feet was built specifically for the art school and in 1992, the museum has changed its name from the museum Laguna Gloria Austin Museum of Art, although four years later, the Austin Museum of Art moved to Congress Avenue in downtown Austin. Despite the measure, Laguna Gloria remained the rooms of the house to art school, which was renovated in 2003 and added new art exhibition local and regional evidence among others.
Laguna Gloria Mayfield Park is just next to a beautiful park next to the Driscoll Villa which is also on the National Register of Historic Places. Laguna Gloria is located west of the intersection Loop One, also known as MOPAC Expressway, and West 35th Street, and is also close to Camp Mabry, Austin other local attractions and historic military base. AMOA-Laguna Gloria is now known, offers indoor and outdoor, and is located within twelve acres of picturesque gardens and care, within a mile of which are on the shore of Lake Austin, and the museum is only 15 miles from downtown Austin and the main structure of the Austin Museum of Art Congress.
Much weddings, concerts, parties and other social activities are organized in the museum and the park, many of them to raise funds for charities local, such as AnyBabyCan and others. Since then, the museum has several events spaces including an amphitheater, sunken gardens and a gazebo called Temple of Love with a track original stone tower wonderful and the museum itself, is perfect for most events outside and inside.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is also a four-season garden with statues from Italy brought by Clara Driscoll, and there is a solarium in the park, and a oval of grass in front with a source for major events. The sunken gardens are an original sculpture by sculptor Charles Umlauf, who is now well known nationally and for which Umlauf Gardens in Zilker Park was named.
AMOA-Laguna Gloria is a must place if the art natural beauty and historic museums appeal to you, and is also one of the most picturesque and varied to hold or participate in an event or a wedding, so be sure to visit Laguna Gloria and enjoy the many sculptures, exhibitions, events, gardens and other attractions, where in or around Austin.
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Ki lives in Austin Texas. He maintains a site about Austin real estate with a graphical search of the Austin MLS and information about the new Austin condos being built in downtown Austin.
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