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During your Charlotte vacation, don't miss these great establishments and attractions:
Discovery Place & the Nature Museum
Discovery Place is one of the top hands-on science and technology museums in the region. This uptown center features such permanent exhibits as a tropical rain forest and an aquarium. There's also an OMNIMAX theater. The static-electricity demonstration, which literally makes your hair stand on end, is a perennial favorite. Temporary exhibits on loan from other science centers keep the place forever changing.
Mint Museum of Art
With the recently added Dalton Wing, this stately museum displays a fine survey of European and American art, as well as the internationally recognized Delhom Collection of porcelain and pottery. Also featured are pre-Columbian art, contemporary American prints, African objects, vast collections of costumes and antique maps, and gold coins originally minted at the facility. New galleries exhibit studio glass and pottery from North Carolina studios. An admission ticket also gains you admittance to the Mint Museum of Craft & Design (220 N. Tryon St.).
Wing Haven Gardens & Bird Sanctuary
Since 1927, one of Charlotte's special attractions, created by Elizabeth and Edwin Clarkson, has been a 3-acre enclosed area in the heart of a residential neighborhood. Mrs. Clarkson was known as the city's "bird lady." Some 142 winged species have been sighted in the walled garden, which was once a bare clay field. Birders and garden lovers will have a field day as they browse through the Upper, Lower, Main, Wild, Herb, and Rose gardens. The gardens are at their most splendid in the spring, when birds are returning from their winter migration. A bulletin board tells you which birds are around at the moment.
Hilton Charlotte University Place
The Hilton Charlotte University Place is situated lakeside in the Charlotte University City Area, only 4 miles from Lowe's Motor Speedway, 10 miles from downtown and 15 miles from Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Convenient location and easy accessibility to both business and pleasure with an exercise room, outdoor pool and lakeside jogging ...
Renaissance Charlotte Suites
The Renaissance Charlotte Suites offers deluxe suite accommodations in a location convenient to area attractions and businesses, downtown Charlotte and the Southpark office and shopping complex. Complimentary airport transportation to and from Charlotte-Douglas International Airport is provided 6am to 11pm with a courtesy telephone in baggage claim. The Renaissance Suites features the second largest ballroom in Charlotte with complete meeting and convention services available including ...
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