Tacoma + Pierce County Attractions Culture, Arts, Entertainment and Awe Are at Your Fingertips
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Tacoma + Pierce County attractions Culture, arts, entertainment and awe are at your fingertips. Point Defiance Zoo + Aquarium PDZA.org Acclaimed zoo + aquarium featuring polar bears, sharks, elephants, tigers, clouded leopards and more! At the only combined zoo + aquarium in the Northwest, you’ll see sea horses and sharks, peacocks and penguins, Pantages Theater wolves and walrus all in one place. It’s fun, BroadwayCenter.org affordable and offers breathtaking views of Puget Sound and Mount Rainier. Opened in 1918 and is often regarded as the most beautiful in the national chain of Pantages theaters. Today it is the oldest of the Pantages Theaters still in operation. Attend live Arts + Museums: productions, concerts, symphonies, ballets and ▪ DuPont Historical more. Museum ▪ Harbor History Rialto Theater Museum [Gig Harbor] BroadwayCenter.org ▪ Lakewood Historical Hailed as “the ultimate photoplay house,” the Society + Museum Beaux-Arts-style Rialto opened in 1918. ▪ Mount Rainier Tacoma’s Rialto was part of a national movie Railroad + Museum house chain with ornate plaster decoration and LeMay Family Collection Marymount [Elbe] replicas of cupids that can still been seen today. LeMayMarymount.org ▪ Pioneer Farm Museum Attend regular concerts by Northwest Located in a historic military academy, this + Ohop Indian Village Sinfonietta, Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, and museum keeps your attention with its unending [Eatonville] the Tacoma Youth Symphony. ▪ Tacoma Glassblowing collection of cars and unique campus. You’ll experience over 1,500 different cars, trucks and Studio Theater on the Square unique automobiles such as a double-decker ▪ Karpeles Manuscript BroadwayCenter.org bus or a car in the shape of a stiletto. Museum The newest of the Broadway Center theaters, Theater on the Square opened in 1993. The 302-seat theater and rehearsal hall sits adjacent to the Pantages. Catch films, entertainers, puppet shows and other performances. Tacoma Rainiers [Baseball] TacomaRainiers.com America’s pastime is a Tacoma tradition at Cheney Stadium where the Tacoma Rainiers Performing Arts: [the Triple-A affiliate of the Seattle Mariners] ▪ The Grand Cinema [Movies] take the field every year. Nearly all the ▪ Lakewood Playhouse homegrown Seattle Mariners’ players have TravelTacoma.com passed through Tacoma. Watch the stars of ▪ Tacoma Comedy Club ▪ Tacoma Musical Playhouse tomorrow play in the historic backdrop of ▪ Tacoma Little Theater Cheney Stadium! @TravelTacoma .