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Boca Raton Historical Society
The main reason to visit this tiny museum is to check out the building, the former Boca Raton town hall (1927) that's topped by a glimmering gold dome.
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Boca Raton Museum of Art
This fine museum in Mizner Park has an impressive permanent collection featuring contemporary works by boldface names including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Andy Warhol. Also on display are collections of Asian, African and pre-Columbian art, plus frequent traveling exhibitions and the annual All-Florida Juried Competition, the state's oldest invitation-only art show.
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Boomers!
A perfect place to keep your little ones occupied for an hour or five, this indoor-outdoor fun park has go-karts, bumper boats, and endlessly flashing and buzzing arcade games.
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Children's Museum, inc
Housed in the 1925 'Singing Pines' home, one of the oldest wooden structures in town, this museum has rooms with various irresistible themes: outer space, grocery shopping, playing dress up, playing house, fossil discovery and banking, just like life for grownups. The landscaped gardens outside feature native Florida plants and plenty of room for a game of tag.
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Children's Science Explorium
A kiddy attraction in the western section of Boca, this explorium has exhibits on Florida ecosystems and local history, as well as brightly colored hands-on exhibits on ever-popular topics including space, physics and various aspects of nature. Outside is the very cool Science Trail, a series of physics experiments cleverly disguised as a nifty playground. The museum is part of Sugar Sands Park, 132 acres of shady Florida scrub that's almost as nice as Boca's collection of oceanfront greenways.
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Florida Atlantic University Galleries
A bit off the beaten path, FAU has two galleries that attract top exhibitions in between student shows. The Schmidt Center Gallery and, just over the hill, the Ritter Art Gallery.
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Gumbo Limbo Nature Center
Boca Raton's best asset is not its collection of retail, cultural or culinary treats, but this condo-free stretch of undeveloped waterfront parkland. The crown jewel of the system is the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, in a wild preserve of tropical hammock and dunes ecosystems. Dedicated to educating the public about sea turtles and other local fauna, this is a natural-history lesson at its best. Displays, including saltwater tanks full of critters, are fascinating and entertaining.
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Red Reef Beach
Thanks to a unique outcrop of rock and reef just offshore, Red Reef Beach is a top draw for water lovers, offering lifeguards in swimming areas, and great shallow pools for beginner snorkelers. Above sea level, Red Reef Beach and neighboring South Beach Park together encompass some 60 acres of wild shores.
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Ritter Art Gallery
Just over the hill, the Ritter Art Gallery is designed to exhibit larger pieces, from huge ceramic figures to carved granite sculpture. While many shows focus on student art, exhibitions by renowned South Florida artists are always a season highlight.
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Schmidt Center Gallery
The Schmidt Center Gallery is a large, adaptable space that features frequent installation art. To get here, use parking lot 1 at the end of Palm Beach Ave (visitors must use metered spaces), walk toward the theater and turn left into the Performing Arts Center.
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Spanish River Park
This massive and leafy park, between Ocean Blvd and the Intracoastal Waterway, is a fine 95 acres of waterfront property, blessed with a lagoon, a vast grassy area, picnic tables, a 40ft observation tower and well-shaded nature trails that are clearly loved by the locals who you'll see jogging, fast-walking and strolling along here. Through three tunnels under Ocean Blvd, you can walk to the wild beach, with nothing but sand dunes and surfers to distract you.
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Sports Immortals Showcase Museum
Founded by premier sports-memorabilia collector Joel Platt, this museum is merely a preview of his much more ambitious project, the Sports Immortals Experience, which has been 'in the works' for years now. For now, you can view rotating exhibits featuring endless mementos, from balls and helmets to plaques and works of art.
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