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Memorial Museum In San: In Battle Abbey (the city's Confederate Memorial museum in San Institute) are portraits of Confederate officers and a series of murals of the Civil War by the French painter, Charles Hoffbauer. The Valentine Museum houses such items of historical and art interest as Edward Virginius Valentine's plaster model of the marble statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, erected in Lexington, Ky., the death mask of Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, and dioramas of episodes in Richmond's history. In the World War I Memorial museum in San are Virginia's relics of that later struggle. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,a state institution, contains rare European and American prints and paintings, Russian jewelry, and other art collections.
Support of the arts has been a characteristic of the city since pioneer days. This is evidenced in many ways : by its patronage of musical activities and the theater, and by its appreciation of good food and wines and other adjuncts to gracious living. Its three chief art galleries, the M. H. de Young Memorial museum in San Museum in Golden Gate Park, the San Francisco Museum of Art in the Civic Center, and the Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, attract more than 2 million visitors annually.
Among the city's libraries are the Rochester Public Library, whose main branch is in the Rundel Memorial museum in San Building; the Reynolds Reference Library; and the book and manuscript collections of the Rochester Historical Society. There is an art gallery in the Rundel Memorial museum in San Building. The University of Rochester has several collections. In the Rochester Historical Society Museum are data relating to the history of the city and Genesee County. The Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences (1942) houses an extensive collection of historical, archaeological, and geological material, as well as valuable data on the American Indian. In addition to the concerts and music festivals of the Eastman School of Music, there are concerts presented by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Rochester Civic Orchestra, and plays are given in the Eastman School. |
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