Downtown
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Downtown Tacoma is comprised of many small districts and attractions. From "A" Street to Tacoma Avenue and South 6th to South 27th Street, you'll find many traditional businesses large and small, and a varied assortment of unique shops, boutiques, delis and coffee houses. It is home to Antique Row around South 9th Street on Broadway with its many antique shops having available just about anything one can imagine that has been gently used in times past. Just south of Antique Row, you'll find the Broadway Theatre District. Within easy walking distance are the Pantages Theatre, the Broadway Center for the Performing Arts, the Rialto Theatre, home of the Northwest Sinfonietta, the Tacoma Youth Symphony, the Children's Museum of Tacoma, the African American Museum and many more popular attractions. |
On Pacific
Avenue you will find the Tacoma
Art Museum at South 12th Street. The museum always has a variety of changing
exhibitions of 19th and 20th century art. Glass sculpture by Dale |
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The Washington State History Museum is further down Pacific Avenue at South 19th Street just south of Union Station. It features interactive and multimedia exhibits highlighting the Native Americans, early explorers and settlers who traveled to Washington in the 1800's. The museum is home to the largest collection of pioneer, Native American and Alaskan artifacts on the Pacific Coast. Now open, the Museum of Glass on Dock Street will feature contemporary art and glass sculpture by world renowned artist Dale Chihuly. |
| This area is also home to the University of Washington, Tacoma Campus, as well as a variety of art galleries, restaurants, boutiques and wine & gift shops and the soon to be new location of the Tacoma Art Museum in 2002. | |
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