MATTATUCK TRAVEL

Travel tours are back at the Mattatuck Museum Arts & History Center. Beginning October 24, 2006, the Mattatuck Museum will host a series of travel and tours to exciting current art exhibits and classical art history destinations. The series kicks off with a trip to the New York Botanical Garden featuring the work of renowned art glass sculptor, Dale Chihuly.

   The giant glass globes and trees of Dale Chihuly have turned the grounds of the famed New York Botanical Garden into a fantasy land of color until October 29, 2006. The exhibit features thousands of hand blown glass sculptures throughout the Botanical Garden that explore the visual relationship between glass and nature. Participants will view the extensive outdoor exhibit by tram, and then tour Chihuly exhibit in the greenhouse.

   The exhibit is and extraordinary experience blending Chihuly’s vibrantly colored monumental glass sculptures with nature’s own masterpieces. This Garden trip is a special opportunity to experience the dazzling interplay of art and nature, glass and light, intriguing plants and stunning sculptures in the exhibition. For reservations please call the museum at 203-753-0381 x. 10. The bus will leave at 9 a.m. and return by 6 p.m. on October 24.

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