Some Cultural Venues

…in Norfolk, Virginia

The Edythe C. and Stanley L. Harrison Opera House, also known as the Harrison Opera House, is the official home of the Virginia Opera in the Neon District of Downtown Norfolk on the border of the Ghent Square neighborhood. Built as a public works auditorium, this theatre served as a venue for World War II USO shows.

Norfolk Scope is a multi-function complex comprising the 11,000-seat Scope Arena, a 2,500-seat theater known as Chrysler Hall, a 65,000-square-foot (6,000 m2) modular exhibition hall, and a 600-car parking garage.
The arena was designed by Italian architect/engineer Pier Luigi Nervi in conjunction with the (now defunct) local firm Williams and Tazewell, which developed the entire complex. Nervi’s design for the arena’s reinforced concrete dome was inspired by the PalaLottomatica and the much smaller Palazzetto dello Sport, both of which were built in the 1950s for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

USS Wisconsin (BB-64). is a battleship built in Philadelphia and launched in 1943. Decommissioned in 1991, she currently functions as a museum ship operated by Nauticus, the National Maritime Center in Norfolk, Virginia.

The Chrysler Museum of Art is an art museum founded in 1933 as the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. In 1971, automotive heir Walter P. Chrysler Jr. donated most of his extensive collection to the museum. The Chrysler Museum has fifty galleries, a growing collection of more than 35,000 objects, an interactive space for families, and the only glass studio of its kind in the Mid-Atlantic region. Best of all, admission is free.

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