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Museums & Attractions
  • July 3, 2008 marks the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec City. Beginning on New Year’s Eve and concluding with a one-off performance by Cirque du Soleil at the closing ceremony on Oct. 19, the birthday celebration will include a full calendar of events and interactive exhibitions. The heart of the festivities will take place at Espace 400e—a pavilion located in the Old Port of Quebec. Espace 400e will host the Passengers Exhibition, an interactive tribute to the millions of people who passed through the city over the years; Image Mill, a multimedia show that tells the story of Quebec; the Ephemeral Gardens, an outdoor showcase garden; plus a wide range of daily activities and shows. For more information, call 418.648.2008 or visit www.monquebec2008.com.

     
  • The Delaware Art Museum is presenting In Company with Angels: Seven Tiffany Windows, an exhibition of stained glass angels made in 1902 for a Swedenborgian church in Cincinnati that were displaced when the church was razed in 1964. For 37 years, the boxed eight-foot-tall windows remained in parishioners’ garages and basements in Ohio, then traveled to a Swedenborgian property in Pennsylvania, and were finally discovered in their boxes in 2001 by a new minister. In Company with Angels, a nonprofit organization, is now dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of the windows. The exhibit lasts through Jan. 31. For more information, call 302.571.9590 or visit www.delart.org.

Milestones
  • The Valley Forge area now boasts one of the highest concentrations of International Association of Conference Centers (IACC) accredited locations in the country. With the recent addition of Normandy Farm Hotel and Conference Center in Blue Bell, Penn., the total comes to seven. Normandy Farm, a restored 18th-century American landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places, features a conference center with 23,000 square feet of meeting space in two ballrooms and 17 meeting rooms. For more information, call Normandy Farm at 215.616.8500 or visit www.normandyfarm.com, or call IACC at 314.993.8575 or visit www.iaccglobal.org.