#1 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara CA
~0.43 miles from Santa Clara city center
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The university is situated in Santa Clara, California (2006 est. population 108,518), adjacent to the city of San Jose, California in Santa Clara County (est. population 1.8 million), which anchors the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area. Also known by the abbreviation SCU, its students and 71,000 alumni are called “Santa Clarans” and its athletics teams are called the Broncos. In many[weasel words] of its informational and promotional publications the school is billed as "The Jesuit University in Silicon Valley."
Built around historic Mission Santa Clara, the present university is home to a population of nearly 5,000 undergraduate and 3,500 masters, J.D., and Ph.D. students. The institution employs over 450 full time faculty members, who are divided between four professional schools and the College of Arts and Sciences, all of which are located on the 106 acre (0.4 km²) mission campus. In July 2009, the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley (JST), formerly an independent school, legally merged with the university taking the name "Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University." Although a division of SCU, the school retains its campus in Berkeley, California. JST is one of two Jesuit seminaries in the United States with ecclesiastical faculties approved by the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education. The other seminary, Weston Jesuit School of Theology, completed a similar affiliation with Boston College in June 2008, becoming Boston College School of Theology and Ministry.
For the 2008–2009 academic year, the university's operating budget was $311 million, and the university's endowment was over $697 million. For the same period, undergraduate tuition and fees was $34,950 and the average cost of room and board was $11,067.
Santa Clara is civilly chartered and governed by a board of trustees, which appoints the president. By internal statute, the president must be a member of the Jesuit order; although, the membership of the board is primarily lay. About forty Jesuit priests and brothers are active teachers and administrators in various departments and centers located on the main campus in Santa Clara. Additionally, fourteen Jesuits currently hold faculty positions at the university's Jesuit School of Theology located in Berkeley. In total, Jesuits comprise around seven percent of the permanent faculty and hold teaching positions in biology, computer engineering, counseling psychology, economics, English, history, law, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, religious studies, theology, and theater arts. They also serve in campus ministry and residence-hall ministry, and some act as faculty directors in residential learning communities.
SCU maintains its Catholic and Jesuit affiliation and supports numerous initiatives intended to further its religious mission. Students are invited to attend the Sunday evening student Masses in the mission church and encouraged to participate in campus ministry programs and lectures. All bachelor’s degrees require three religious studies courses as part of the academic core. An emphasis on social justice is furthered through the Pedro Arrupe Partnership and Kolvenbach Solidarity Programs, which offer service opportunities in the community and immersion opportunities throughout the world. The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and the Center for Science, Technology, and Society also have programs that serve the university's Catholic, Jesuit identity.
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#2 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
De Saisset Museum
500 El Camino Real Santa Clara CA - 408-554-4528
~0.44 miles from Santa Clara city center
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The de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University opened in the early 1950s after Isabel de Saisset, the last member of a French pioneer family bequeathed her estate to the University of Santa Clara. The museum owns nearly 10,000 art pieces and historical artifacts, including the work of well known early Californian artist and university alumnus Ernest de Saisset and a considerable collection of California mission artifacts. The de Saisset recently completed a major renovation of its storage facilities and is open to the public free of charge.
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#3 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
Mission Santa Clara de Asis
Santa Clara CA
~0.45 miles from Santa Clara city center
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Mission Santa Clara de Asís was founded on January 12, 1777 and named for Clare of Assisi, the founder of the order of the Poor Clares. Although ruined and rebuilt six times, the settlement was never abandoned.
The first mission to be built to honor a woman, the outpost was originally established as La Misión Santa Clara de Thamien (or Mission Santa Clara de Thamien) at the Indian village of So-co-is-u-ka (meaning "Laurelwood," located on the Guadalupe River) January 12, 1777. There they erected a cross and shelter for worship to bring Christianity to the Ohlone and Costanoan peoples. Floods, fires, and earthquakes damaged many of the early structures and forced relocation to higher ground. The second site is known as Mission Santa Clara de Asís. A subsequent site of the Mission dating from 1784 to 1819 is located several hundred yards west of the De La Cruz overpass of the Caltrain track; moreover, several Native American burial sites have been discovered near this subsequent site. The current site, home to the first college in Alta California, dates back to 1828.
Initially, there was tension between the people of the Mission and those in the nearby Pueblo de San Jose over disputed ownership rights of land and water. The tension was relieved when a road, the Alameda, was built by two hundred Indians to link the communities together. On Sundays, people from San Jose would come to the Mission for services, until the building of St. Joseph's Church in 1803. In that year, the mission of Santa Clara reported an Indian population of 1,271. In the same tabular report, its resident priest estimated that 5,000 cattle, 7,000 sheep, 2,200 horses and 30 mules were on mission lands, while about 3,000 fanegas of grain (some 220 pounds each of wheat, barley or corn)had been harvested. In 1850, California became a state and priests of the Jesuit Order took over the Mission Santa Clara de Asís. Father John Nobili, S.J., was put in charge of the Mission. He began a college on the Mission site in 1851, which grew into Santa Clara University; it is the only mission to become part of a university, and it is also the oldest university in California. Throughout the history of the Mission, the bells have rung faithfully every evening, a promise made to King Charles III of Spain when he sent the original bells to the Mission in 1777. He asked that the bells be rung each evening at 8:30 in memory of those who had died.
Mission Santa Clara de Asís sits on the campus of the Santa Clara University. After a 1925 fire destroyed the 1828 mission structure, the church's parochial functions were transferred to St. Clare Parish Church, on Lexington Street west of the campus. A rebuilt and restored Mission Santa Clara was consecrated in 1929, when it assumed its primary modern function as chapel and centerpiece of the university campus. It is open to visitors every day; the Mission museum is located in the university's De Saisset Museum.
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#4 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
Santa Clara
Santa Clara CA
~0.47 miles from Santa Clara city center
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Santa Clara, California (pronounced /?sænt?'klær?/), founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city is the site of the eighth of 21 California missions, Mission Santa Clara de Asís, and was named after the mission. The Mission and Mission Gardens are located on the grounds of Santa Clara University. Saint Clare is the patron saint of Santa Clara.
Santa Clara is located in the center of Silicon Valley, and is home to the headquarters of Intel, Applied Materials, Sun Microsystems, NVIDIA, Agilent Technologies, and many other high-tech companies. It is home to both Mission College and Santa Clara University, the latter being the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of California.
Santa Clara is also home to Great America, an amusement park operated by Cedar Fair, L.P. The San Francisco 49ers NFL football team has its headquarters and practice facilities in Santa Clara. On Wednesday, November 8, 2006, the 49ers announced their intention to move the team to Santa Clara, after negotiations failed with the city of San Francisco to build a new stadium.
Santa Clara owns and operates an electric utility called Silicon Valley Power. In 2005 Silicon Valley Power brought online the Donald Von Raesfeld (DVR) Power Plant. The new combined-cycle gas turbine plant produces 147 megawatts of electricity for the city and its residents. As a result, the going rate for electricity in Santa Clara is considerably cheaper than that offered by Northern California's dominant utility, Pacific Gas and Electric.
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#5 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
Harris Lass Historic Museum
Po Box 3311 Santa Clara CA - 408-249-7905
~0.72 miles from Santa Clara city center
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The town's last preserved farm site from the early 1900s.
Attraction type: History museum
Address: 1889 Market St. Santa Clara, CA
Tel: 408-249-7905
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#6 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
Triton Museum of Art
1505 Warburton Ave Santa Clara CA - 408-247-3754
~0.84 miles from Santa Clara city center
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Triton Museum of Art is dedicated to the cultural diversity of the greater South Bay Area. For more than 30 years, the museum has offered collections that showcase the history and experiences of diverse South Bay communities including Latino, Japanese and Pacific Islander among others. It also provides thought provoking, unfailingly illuminating lectures, classes, panel discussions and tours. Exhibitions change on a monthly basis and admission is free. It is a great place to learn the fascinating history of the area.
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#7 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
Headen Inman Historical Museum
1509 Warburton Ave Santa Clara CA - 408-248-2787
~0.84 miles from Santa Clara city center
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#8 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
San Jose Municipal Rose Garden
Silicon Valley CA
~1.39 miles from Santa Clara city center
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The San Jose Municipal Rose Garden (5.5 acres) is a rose garden located at the intersection of Naglee Avenue and Dana Avenue, San Jose, California, in the Rose Garden neighborhood. It is open to the public daily without charge. Dogs are not allowed.
The garden was once a prune orchard, but was bought by San Jose in 1927 and is now exclusively devoted to roses. It features more than 3,500 rose shrubs representing 189 rose varieties.
As an official Display Garden for the All-America Rose Selections (AARS) the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden receives AARS award winning roses in advance of public release. In the early 2000s, City budget cuts impacted the Rose Garden. In 2005 the AARS put the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden on probation and it was at risk of losing AARS accreditation. In 2007 Friends of the San Jose Rose Garden (FSJRG) was established, a volunteer nonprofit organization whose mission was to restore and renovate the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden. In December 2008 the AARS lifted the garden from probation and restored full accreditation. In 2009 over 800 new roses were planted as part of the restoration project.
On May 2, 2009 the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden was rededicated as an official All-America Rose Selections Test Garden, one of 23 in the USA and the only one in Northern California. The rededication ceremony and ribbon cutting of new Test Beds was conducted by the Mayor of San Jose Chuck Reed, the President of the All America Rose Selections, Tom Carruth, San Jose City Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio, and Co-Founders of the Friends of the San Jose Rose Garden, Beverly Rose Hopper and Terry Reilly.
On December 15, 2009 the restoration of the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden by volunteers of Friends of the San Jose Rose Garden in partnership with the City of San Jose, was nationally recognized on President Obama's website Serve.gov, Corporation for National and Community Service.
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#9 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum
Silicon Valley CA
~1.45 miles from Santa Clara city center
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The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (REM), founded by the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, is a museum about Ancient Egypt located at AMORC's Rosicrucian Park in the Rose Garden neighborhood of San Jose, California, United States. The Rosicrucian Order continues to support and expand the museum and its educational and scientific activities.
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#10 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
Downtown Santa Clara (Neighborhood)
Santa Clara CA
~1.45 miles from Santa Clara city center
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#11 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
Santana Row
San Jose CA
~1.70 miles from Santa Clara city center
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Santana Row is a upscale shopping, dining and entertainment in San Jose, California. Westfield Valley Fair is located just to its north, on the other side of Stevens Creek Boulevard, and the Winchester Mystery House just to the west, across Winchester Boulevard.
Retailers including Gucci, Burberry, Salvatore Ferragamo, BCBG Max Azria, Crate and Barrel, Diesel, H&M, Ann Taylor LOFT, Vera Bradley, Cole Haan, Furla, Anthropologie, Tommy Bahama, Urban Outfitters, St. Croix, Donald J. Pliner, and Brooks Brothers are located in Santana Row.
Santana Row’s European-style shopping area gives its more than 1,000 residents an active urban environment in which to live, work and play. The Residences at Santana Row feature: 514 homes (219 privately owned condos and 295 rental townhomes and flats).
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#12 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
Winchester Mystery House
San Jose CA
~2.02 miles from Santa Clara city center
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The Winchester Mystery House is a well-known California mansion that was under construction continuously for 38 years, and is reported to be haunted. It once was the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of gun magnate William Wirt Winchester, but is now a tourist attraction. Under Winchester's day-to-day guidance, its "from-the-ground-up" construction proceeded around-the-clock, without interruption, from 1884 until her death on September 5, 1922, at which time work immediately ceased. The cost for such constant building has been estimated at about US $5.5 million (if paid in 1922, this would be equivalent to almost $70 million in 2008 dollars).
The mansion is renowned for its size and utter lack of any master building plan. According to popular belief, Winchester thought the house was haunted by the ghosts of individuals killed by Winchester rifles, and that only continuous construction would appease them. It is located at 525 South Winchester Blvd. in San Jose, California.[
http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/
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#13 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
HP Pavilion - Washington Capitals San Jose Sharks
San Jose CA
~2.56 miles from Santa Clara city center
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http://www.hppsj.com/
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#14 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
Downtown San Jose (Neighborhood)
San Jose CA
~2.92 miles from Santa Clara city center
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#15 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
St. Joseph Cathedral Basilica
Silicon Valley CA
~3.01 miles from Santa Clara city center
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The Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph is a large Roman Catholic church located in Downtown San Jose. The minor basilica is the cathedral for the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose in California. The basilica is named for Saint Joseph, patron saint of the universal church.
The original St. Joseph's Church was built on the site of the current basilica in 1803, and was the first non-mission parish built in California. The original adobe structure was damaged by earthquakes in 1818 and 1822, and a new adobe church was built from 1835 to 1846. The second church was severely damaged the 1868 Hayward earthquake, and work on the third church began in 1869. The third church was destroyed by fire in 1875, and a temporary fourth church was built a few blocks away while the fifth and current church was being constructed. The fifth church was dedicated by Joseph Alemany, Archbishop of San Francisco, in 1877 while construction continued. The current portico was completed in 1884, and the large dome was finished in 1885.
In 1981, a major renovation project was begun at the church, which was to become the cathedral for the new Roman Catholic Bishop of San Jose. In 1985, the church was elevated to a cathedral, pending completion of the restoration in 1990. It replaced Saint Patrick Proto-Cathedral Parish, located a few blocks away, as the cathedral of the diocese. The cathedral was made a minor basilica by Pope John Paul II in 1997.
The Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph is listed as a California Historical Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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#16 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
Intel Museum
Santa Clara CA
~3.02 miles from Santa Clara city center
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The Intel Museum located at Intel's headquarters in Santa Clara, California, has exhibits of Intel's products and history as well as semiconductor technology in general. The museum is open weekdays and Saturdays except holidays. It is open to the public with free admission.
The museum was started in the early 1980's as an internal project at Intel to record its history. It opened to the public in 1992, later being expanded in 1999 to triple its size and add a store. It has exhibits about how semiconductor chip technology works, both as self-paced exhibits and by reservation as grade-school educational programs.
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#17 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
San Jose Museum of Art
Silicon Valley CA
~3.03 miles from Santa Clara city center
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The San Jose Museum of Art is an art museum in Downtown San Jose, California, USA. Founded in 1969, the museum hosts a large permanent collection emphasizing West Coast artists of the 20th- and 21st-century. It is located next to the Circle of Palms Plaza and Plaza de César Chávez park.
The museum's historic wing was originally designed by architect Willoughby J. Edbrooke and built as the San Jose post office in 1892, then served as the city's library from 1937 to 1969. The building was then converted by The Fine Arts Gallery Association, reopening as the "Civic Art Gallery". In 1972 the building was named a California Historical Landmark (#854), and in 1973 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The "New Wing", comprising the majority of the current exhibition space, opened in 1991.
Many of the changing exhibitions at the San Jose Museum of Art focus on the West Cost and California. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, a great many exhibitions are centered on the intersection of art and technology. Exhibitions and individual installations typically remain on view between 4 to 6 months.
The Museum is open from 11 AM to 5 PM Tuesday through Sunday. Public tours are available for visitors at 1:00 PM on weekdays and at 12:30 PM and 2:30 PM on weekends, and also by appointment. Guided school tours tied to classroom curriculum are also available by appointment.
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#18 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
Parkside Hall
San Jose CA
~3.03 miles from Santa Clara city center
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#19 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
Tech Museum
San Jose CA
~3.09 miles from Santa Clara city center
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The Tech Museum in San Jose, California is a hands-on technology museum devoted to inspiring the innovator in everyone. Located in downtown San Jose, directly across the street from the Convention Center, it is open to the public daily. Features include special and permanent exhibits (most are hands on and participatory), a wonderful gift shop where unique items such as a robot cookie jar may be purchased and the Imax Theatre where films come to life though a special screen, advanced sound system and inclined cushioned seats. So popular is Imax that seats are often sold out.
For fans of the museum who recall its opening over a decade ago, you'll be glad to know a robot which has greeted hundreds of thousands of people is still there, talking away. Even adults are sometimes amazed and ask how the robots speaks interactively to them. All I can see is keep your eyes wide open and you'll usually figure it out.
Exhibits have included:
Communication: Global Connections Make a movie in The Digital Studio. Use the latest tricks in animation. Experience how the Internet, television and other communication technologies have made it a small world after all.
Exploration: New Frontiers Shake in an earthquake, see under the sea, and use the gadgets that take us to places we have only been able to imagine.
Innovation: Silicon Valley and Beyond Become a Silicon Valley-style innovator. Use the inventions that made the area world-famous to design your own roller coaster, build a microchip, and get a futuristic self-portrait with a 3-D laser scanner.
Life Tech: The Human Machine Experience the "how" of machines that keep us alive and explore technologies which enhance human performance. Ponder the debate about the applications and ethics in biotechnology.
The Spirit of American Innovation: Innovation and Commercialization for a Global Society Learn more about The National Medal of Technology and the laureates who have received it! The Tech's newest permanent exhibit is now open in the building and online.
Center of the Edge: Traveling Exhibits A fusion of art and science from Interval Research open our new changing exhibit space, which showcases state-of-the-art, experimental technologies.
The Tech is open daily 10-5. Prices are $10 and up for the gallery admission plus two Imax showings (subject to change).
*Prices are subject to change without notice- please call first for operating hours and admission prices. Please visit their official web site for information and updates at thetech.org/
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#20 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
Children's Discovery Museum
San Jose CA
~3.10 miles from Santa Clara city center
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The striking 52,000 square foot purple building, designed by Mexico City-based architect Ricardo Legorreta, signals the purpose of Children's Discovery Museum to serve the needs of children, families and schools as a center for learning and discovery.
Encompassing the broad themes of community, connections and creativity, exhibits invite self-directed, open-ended explorations, while programs provide facilitated, focused, and sustained interactions.
Since opening in June, 1990, the Museum has welcomed over 5 million visitors and has offered new interactive exhibits each year that respond to children's diverse educational needs. With the addition of the West Wing in 1997, the Museum expanded its size by twenty percent.
Museum Mission
The purpose of Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose is to serve the needs of children, families and schools as a center for learning and discovery. For children, it is first and foremost a place to call their own, offering interactive exhibits and programs in a warm and inviting setting. Its educational mission encompasses the themes of Connections, Community, and Creativity. In its unique environment, children actively make connections among ideas, people and cultures. The Museum's programs also encourage children to define their role in and contribution to both local and global communities. Finally, as a center for creative play and expression, Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose provides opportunities for all of us to discover the world through the eyes of our children.
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#21 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
Plaza de Cesar Chavez
Silicon Valley CA
~3.11 miles from Santa Clara city center
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Plaza de César Chávez is a 2.2-acre (9,000 m²) park in Downtown San Jose, California, USA, named after César Chávez (originally "The Plaza", then "Pueblo Plaza") in 1993. It is surrounded by South Market Street, across which is The Tech Museum of Innovation, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Circle of Palms Plaza and the Fairmont San Jose Hotel. At the south end is the statue "Plumed Serpent" by Robert Graham.
At different times of the year it hosts live music, cultural festivals, arts and crafts fairs, food shows, the official city Christmas tree, water fountains, and open-air theater. There are free concerts in the park every Thursday during summer, the San Jose Jazz Festival has its main stage in the park, and every winter from Thanksgiving until New Year's it hosts "Christmas in the Park".
The Plaza was established when San José moved from its original location on the bank of the Guadalupe River to the current downtown location in 1797 and has been in use ever since, making it the oldest public open space in California.
The present-day park was the site of California's capitol from 1849 to 1851, a period during which the California Republic gained American statehood; hence, the site contained California's first state capitol. From 1889 to 1958, San Jose's city hall occupied the center of the park [1] before the local government moved northward to North First and Mission Streets.
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#22 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
Montgomery Theater
San Jose CA
~3.14 miles from Santa Clara city center
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Mission Statement
Montgomery Theater is a uniquely intimate, non-profit theatrical enterprise Dedicated to bringing new life to old tales and giving age and wisdom to new ones. Our mission is to serve the play by telling the story well, serve the artists by fulfilling their creative passions, and serve the audience by challenging and entertaining them.
Brief History
The structure that houses Montgomery Theater in Southeastern Pennsylvania was once the old Souderton firehouse. This "turn of the century" building was bought by the Souderton Borough in order to secure that Montgomery Theater stays in the center of town, thus spearheading revitalization of the Souderton-Telford Communities. In 2002 the main floor of the structure, the original engine room, was renovated into a new 122-seat theater. The first floor and the original arena was once the firehouse banquet hall and senior citizens center. On April 30, 1993, Montgomery Theater Project took occupancy of this lower level and transformed it into a modest 70-seat theater and opened Jonathan Daly's "the William" on June 10, 1993. Since then, Montgomery Theater has presented over seventy productions mixing original, classical, musical and performance art style of presentations to their blend of theatrical events. This lower level space, renamed the "Project Stage," will continue as a performance area designed for alternative and experimental theater, educational theater and children's theater. The top floor of the building has also been renovated in order to provide the theater with office space, alternative rehearsal space, costume and props storage, as well as green room and dressing room facilities.
What People Are Saying
"The tiny playhouse is as close as you are likely to get to the real thing - incisive, penetrating, deep city-like theater." - Gary Puleo, Norristown Times Herald
"MT's intimate stage is ideal for deep, under the cerebrum dramatics you can feel from six feet away." - Dr. John Flautz, Allentown Morning Call
"I couldn't ask for better acting or direction. I didn't expect to get goosebumps." - Adrienne Redd, North Penn Reporter
"MT continues to sting its audience long after they depart the theater." - Angela Hill, Town and Country (Pennsburg)
"MT seems to have a wider circle of plays to select from. They present shows both comic and serious, that most others cannot or will not do." - Bill Thobaben, The Hearthstone Press (Pennsburg)
Contact Info:
Montgomery Theater
124 Main St. (Rt. 113)
P.O. Box 64033
Souderton, PA 18964
215-723-9984
play@montgomerytheater.org
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#23 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
San Jose Convention Center
San Jose CA
~3.15 miles from Santa Clara city center
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The San Jose Convention Center is located in downtown San Jose, California. The Convention Center offers a variety of banquet halls and meeting rooms perfect for any occasion.
The San Jose Convention Center is the main convention center for the city of San Jose, California. It is located in close proximity to several others of San Jose's convention and cultural structures. Its formal name is the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, in recognition of former mayor Tom McEnery.
The convention center offers 143,000 square feet (13,300 m2) of exhibit space. 31 meeting rooms are also offered, as are banquet facilities for some 5,000 persons.
Taking advantage of the adjacent and newer South Hall, a column-free expanse akin to an indoor bubble, it can be increased to a joint total of 223,000 square feet.
Team San Jose currently manages the facility and promotes it as a place to hold events and meetings to corporate, cultural, and many other organizations.
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#24 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
Civic Auditorium
San Jose CA
~3.17 miles from Santa Clara city center
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Built in 1934, the San Jose Civic is a Spanish mission-style, dual-level venue that hosts a variety of events including concerts, performing arts, general assembly and special events. Located directly across the street from the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, the Civic features 3,001 seats in concert form. This facility provides additional exhibit and general assembly space in conjunction with the convention center and Parkside Hall.
Civic Concert Series
As a long-standing, major concert stop for acts touring the West Coast, the Civic has hosted such legends as the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Jefferson Airplane, Frank Sinatra, Barbara Streisand, The Grateful Dead and the Beach Boys. The Who started its first US headlining tour at the Civic in 1968. Big band leaders Duke Ellington & Harry James have also appeared. In the most recent years, bands including Beck, Interpol, Switchfoot, Reliant K, My Chemical Romance, the Pixies and even Snoop Dog have headlined the Civic's stage.
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#25 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
Rivermark Village
Santa Clara CA
~3.24 miles from Santa Clara city center
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#26 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
San Jose State University
San Jose CA
~3.44 miles from Santa Clara city center
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San José State University (often abbreviated San Jose State or SJSU) is a public university located in San Jose, California, United States, at the southern end of San Francisco Bay. It is the founding campus of the California State University (CSU) system, and holds the distinction of being the oldest public institution of higher education on the West Coast of the United States.
Located in downtown San Jose, the SJSU campus is situated on 154 acres, or roughly 19 square blocks. SJSU enrolls approximately 31,000 students in over 130 different bachelor's and master's degree programs.
SJSU's student population is one of the most ethnically diverse in the nation, with large Asian and Latino enrollments, as well as the highest foreign student enrollment of all master's institutions in the United States.
Popular undergraduate majors at SJSU include business, engineering, visual and performing arts, nursing, psychology, justice studies, biology, kinesiology, journalism and computer science. Popular fields of study among graduate students include engineering, library and information science, education and social work.
San Jose State University claims to provide Silicon Valley firms with more engineering, computer science and business graduates than any other college or university, and philanthropic support of SJSU is among the highest in the CSU system.
SJSU sports teams are known as the Spartans, and compete in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) in NCAA Division I.
In 2009, the city of San Jose was named the nation's top mid-size metro college destination, according to the American Institute for Economic Research College Destinations Index for 2009-2010. The index analyzes the academic environment, quality of life, and professional opportunity in more than 360 cities across the U.S.
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#27 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
Silicon Valley CA
~3.48 miles from Santa Clara city center
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The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is an art museum in Downtown San Jose, California, USA. Founded in 1977, the museum is the first in the United States devoted solely to quilts and textiles as an art form. Holdings include a permanent collection of over 550 quilts, garments and ethnic textiles, emphasizing artists of the 20th- and 21st-century, and a research library with over 500 books concerning the history and techniques of the craft.
The Museum of Quilts & Textiles had its beginnings as the American Museum of Quilts and Related Arts, founded in Los Altos, California by the Santa Clara Valley Quilt Association in 1977. It was incorporated in 1986 as a nonprofit public benefit museum, managed by a board of trustees. It relocated several times until it moved into its 13,000 sq ft (1,200 m2) permanent home in San Jose’s SoFA (South First Area) Arts District in 2005.
The Museum provides exhibitions from around the world, focusing on the way people of many cultures use textiles to make their voices heard. Many of the artists on exhibit at the Museum incorporate modern technology into the basic traditions of fiber art. Exhibitions and individual installations typically remain on view 3 months.
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#28 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
California's Great America
Santa Clara CA
~3.56 miles from Santa Clara city center
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California's Great America is an amusement park owned and operated by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, located in Santa Clara, California, USA. Great America is one of four major amusement parks that operate around the San Francisco Bay Area, the other three being Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, and Gilroy Gardens in Gilroy. California's Great America is the only theme park in northern California that has a water park built in.
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#29 of 30 Things To Do in Santa Clara
Great America Theme Park
Santa Clara CA
~4.16 miles from Santa Clara city center
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California's Great America is an amusement park owned and operated by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, located in Santa Clara, California, USA. Great America is one of four major amusement parks that operate around the San Francisco Bay Area, the other three being Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, and Gilroy Gardens in Gilroy. California's Great America is the only theme park in northern California that has a water park built in.
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Santa Clara Convention Center
Santa Clara CA
~4.39 miles from Santa Clara city center
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The Santa Clara Convention Center is located in northern Santa Clara, California. It serves as one of the large meeting and convention facilities in Silicon Valley, with 262,000 square feet of meeting space. It is located in the same complex with the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and the Santa Clara TechMart conference center and across the street from the Great America theme park.
The Santa Clara Convention Center is located in northern Santa Clara, California. It serves as one of the large meeting and convention facilities in Silicon Valley, with 262,000 square feet (24,300 m2) of meeting space.
It is located in the same complex with the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and the Santa Clara TechMart conference center. It is adjacent to the VTA Great America light rail station and across the street from the Great America theme park.
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