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Cultural Places of Staten Island

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Staten Island is among the most famous places in whole United States with lots of cultural diversity present at one place. Being a part of New York City make it easily noticeable and reachable for people. Staten Island is full of places and monuments of cultural interests attracting inbound and outbound both kind of tourists.
Some most important places of cultural interests are:
1. Staten Island Borough Hall - This architectural marvel was built in early 19th century. The construction work completed in 1906. This Borough Hall houses Borough Presidents office along with other government offices. One can have some glimpses of rare art work and paintings by Frederick Charles inside the grand marble lobby, illustrating events in Staten Island history. Second Floor of Borough Hall has carved wood panels, plastic ceiling and heritage furniture which is rare of its kind.
2. CSI Center for Arts - This place is really a unique, wonderful and perfect platform for people with cultural talents. The CSI Centre for the Arts is situated inside huge campus of College of Staten Island. CSI Centre for the arts is the ideal destination of performance for music, dance, and drama & theatre artists. This cultural centre is divided into several subsections called, "The Concert Hall for Music performances", "The Williamson Theatre - for plays, dance and theatre", "The Recital hall", "The Lecture Hall", and "The Lab Theatre". The CSI Center for the Arts provides arts and cultural programming to the Staten Island community on a nonprofit basis.
3. Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art - The Museum of Tibetan Arts was founded by Jacques Marchais, an extraordinary American woman who has keen interest in Tibetan Arts and culture. The museum provides insights of Tibetan and Himalayan arts and culture. Tibetan-style fieldstone buildings resembling Himalayan Monasteries present looks of Tibet in Staten Island. Terraced meditation gardens along with lotus and fish pond create beautiful and serene atmosphere. Visitors can see vast collection of rare Asian Arts. The rare objects in this museum include sculptures, thangkas, ritual objects, furniture, textiles, and historic photographs all of Tibetan Buddhist in nature that were used in monasteries of Tibet and neighboring countries within the influence of Tibetan cultural.
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