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Afro-American Cultural Center
The Afro-American Cultural Center, largely housed in a historic old church has excellent visual-arts exhibits, films and performances in the outdoor amphitheater. The fine art collection is well worth a look and performances cover everything from trad jazz to poetry 'slams'.

Mint Museum of Craft & Design
The Mint Museum of Craft & Design has a permanent exhibition of beautiful objects made from glass, metal, wood and other handcrafted materials, as well as European and American paintings, African Art, and a particularly delightful collection of costumes. And if that wasn't enough, there's also exhibits of old coins, banknotes, maps, prints and drawings.

Discovery Place
Discovery Place is a hands-on science museum with an Omnimax cinema and planetarium. You can wander through a rainforest, peer inside a huge eyeball and sample liquid nitrogen ice cream in the chemistry lab.