Museums & Attractions
Programs & Packages
- The Muzeo, an art museum scheduled to open this month in downtown Anaheim, Calif., is debuting with the exhibit, Imperial Rome: Discovering the Ancient Civilization. The exhibit features 450 artifacts on loan from more than 15 Italian museums. Items on display include an altar, sarcophagi, urns, ceramics, bronze and marble statues, cameos and other jewelry, and a selection of Roman coins. The Muzeo will offer an exhibit hall, museum space and a history center on the ground floor and is one of six mixed-use developments of Anaheim’s downtown revitalization project. For more information, call 714.95.MUZEO or visit www.muzeo.org.
- The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center reopened Aug. 4 after a $28.4 million transformation. The two-story, 48,000-square-foot expansion, conceived by award-winning architect David Owen Tryba, was designed to complement the original 1936 John Gaw Meem building, which has housed the center for the past 70 years. The permanent collection features one of the largest compilations of Native American and Southwestern art in the country, as well as a $2 million collection of Dale Chihuly glass. On the books is the exhibit Impressionist and Modern Masters, scheduled to run Dec. 8 through Mar. 9, 2008. The exhibit is traveling from the New Orleans Museum of Art and features artists such as Picasso, Degas, Monet, and Renoir. For more information, call 719.634.5581 or visit www.csfineartscenter.org.
Programs & Packages
- The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., is offering group discounts and other perks for meetings held between Nov. 20 and Dec. 30. Benefits include a $199 rate for groups booking over 100 rooms per night, based on availability; a $205 rate for groups of 99 rooms per night or less, based on availability; automatic upgrades to the Tower for all rooms, based on availability; 10 percent off food and beverage; 20 percent off audiovisual services; complimentary meeting room rental; up to eight staff rooms at a rate of $159; and complimentary guest rooms for two planners for the duration of the event. For more information, call 310.274.7777 or visit www.beverlyhilton.com.
- The recently-renovated Wyndham Orange County Hotel in Costa Mesa, Calif., is offering a group rewards program, The Art of Generosity. The hotel lets planners choose one of four incentives: donating 10 percent of the event value at the hotel to a charity of choice; receiving a South Coast Plaza gift card for 10 percent of the event value; taking a 10 percent discount off the preferred event; or earning double the event value in airline miles. For more information, call 714.751.5100 or visit www.wyndham.com.