Monday, September 19, 2011

Museum Crawl in The District!



Come join us for a museum crawl through the best museum and performing arts venues in The District.  The Downtown Community Improvement District will host its first-ever MEHA Mingle from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, September 20. MEHA Mingle, which will be held in six locations in downtown Columbia, is the Museum, Entertainment, History and Arts' first-ever museum crawl through Columbia's best museums and cultural centers.


Participants can enjoy free carriage rides, live music, tapas from downtown favorites like Bleu, Main Squeeze Natural Foods or Shakespeare's Pizza, and wine provided by Les Bourgeois. Partakers will be able to preview Museum of Anthropology (Swallow Hall), Museum of Art and Archaeology (Pickard Hall), University Concert Series and Laws Observatory (Jesse Hall), the State Historical Society, Stephens College Costume Gallery, and the Missouri Theatre.

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased by calling the University Concert Series at (573) 882-3781, or at ConcertSeries.org. For more information on MEHA or MEHA Mingle, go to discoverMEHA.com.


This event is brought to you by The Commerce Trust Company, Les Bourgeois, The District, Home & Lifestyle Columbia, and the City of Columbia Office of Cultural Affairs.

MEHA celebrates museums, entertainment, history and art. All within easy walking distance of each other, this diverse group of venues offers an ever changing calendar of exhibitions, plays, concerts, classes and activities-all located in a thriving downtown known for its art galleries, live music and locally owned shops and restaurants.MEHA is an initiative of The District organized in collaboration with the City of Columbia Office of Cultural Affairs and is supported, in part, by the Missouri Arts Council.

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