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What to see next and where?
Answer
I love literature and art.
I also love anything that's free. In addition to free admission, they have free fun art workshops for children on Saturday. Here's a free museum, in a place I have never visited. Abilene.
Didn't you love illustrated books as a child! I bet you still do.
It has changing exhibitions so you are sure to find something new. And a bookshop.
The idea for the place started with a meeting with the then Mayor and the illustrator, William Joyce, of a book set in Abilene. William Joyce is a co-founder of the museum.
See statue depicting the children from Santa Calls, "Childhood's Great Adventure" by Rick Jackson, downtown.
More statues are added every year in a ceremony.
By the way, the song Abilene is about another Abilene, in Kansas, which has an Eisenhower Museum.
National Centre For Childen's Illustrated Literature
Children's Illustration Museum
102 Cedar Street
Abilene
Texas
USA
79601
USA
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g30138-d12677273-Reviews-Adamson_Spalding_Storybook_Garden-Abilene_Texas.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Children%27s_Illustrated_Literature
https://www.nccil.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Literary_museums_in_the_United_States
www.visittheusa.com
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and phtographer, author and speaker.
What to see next and where?
Answer
I love literature and art.
I also love anything that's free. In addition to free admission, they have free fun art workshops for children on Saturday. Here's a free museum, in a place I have never visited. Abilene.
Didn't you love illustrated books as a child! I bet you still do.
It has changing exhibitions so you are sure to find something new. And a bookshop.
The idea for the place started with a meeting with the then Mayor and the illustrator, William Joyce, of a book set in Abilene. William Joyce is a co-founder of the museum.
See statue depicting the children from Santa Calls, "Childhood's Great Adventure" by Rick Jackson, downtown.
More statues are added every year in a ceremony.
By the way, the song Abilene is about another Abilene, in Kansas, which has an Eisenhower Museum.
National Centre For Childen's Illustrated Literature
Children's Illustration Museum
102 Cedar Street
Abilene
Texas
USA
79601
- Tel:+1-325-673-4586
Open 10-4 Tues-Saturday.
Closed Sunday and Monday.
One block away is the Grace Museum, which has lots of interactive activities for children. Also see the zoo.
Abilene Zoo. Photo in Wikipedia.
Closed Sunday and Monday.
One block away is the Grace Museum, which has lots of interactive activities for children. Also see the zoo.
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g30138-d12677273-Reviews-Adamson_Spalding_Storybook_Garden-Abilene_Texas.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Children%27s_Illustrated_Literature
https://www.nccil.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Literary_museums_in_the_United_States
www.visittheusa.com
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and phtographer, author and speaker.
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