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The Art Center is the highlight of the City’s revitalized Potomac River waterfront, attracting approximately 800,000 visitors annually.
Visit artists’ studios, five cooperative galleries, the Target Gallery, and the Alexandria Archaeology Museum. Then stroll along the waterfront, window shop on nearby historic streets, have a picnic on the dock behind the art center, or eat in the area‘s many fine restaurants. This old torpedo factory was constructed just after WWI. After World War II ended, the Federal Government stopped the manufacture of torpedoes in the building and turned it into a storage area. Many different things were stored here, but the most familiar to you are probably some of those dinosaur bones you have seen when visiting the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum on the mall. The City of Alexandria bought the complex of buildings in 1969 from the Federal Government. However, it was several years before an acceptable plan for their use was adopted.
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