JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens will celebrate America\u2019s 250th anniversary with a free admission event, \u201cAmerica Turns 250,\u201d on Friday, July 3. <\/p>\n
The event, held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., will feature live music and family-friendly activities.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n The \u201cAmerica Turns 250\u201d event follows the museum\u2019s popular Summer at the Cummer series.<\/p>\n The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens was recently voted by the Jacksonville community as the best museum, best attraction and best place to take visitors, making it a great venue to mark the nation\u2019s milestone anniversary.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Visitors will experience live music from The Committee Band, performing from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.<\/p>\n A special performance by the Sandalwood High School Marching Band is scheduled from 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n The event includes free access to the museum\u2019s galleries, along with ongoing activities such as drop-in artmaking, scavenger hunts and lawn games in the Cummer Gardens.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Artist Amanda Rosenblatt will lead a session for making cyanotype prints from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Face painting will be available with artist Tiffany Rodriguez from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Food and drink will be available for purchase throughout the event.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens will celebrate America\u2019s 250th anniversary with a free…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,130911,130912,347,7421,28,348,10156,116,351,118,117,130913,349,350,346,345],"class_list":["post-315058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-america-turns-250","tag-americas-250th-anniversary","tag-cbs47","tag-cummer-museum","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-free-admission","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-july-3","tag-northeast-florida","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}