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Art Museum Category: Boca Raton Art Museum in Florida User Rating: Be the first to write a review for Boca Raton Museum of Art! Description of this Boca Raton Attraction: Deeply rooted in the history of its city, the Boca Raton Museum of Art exemplifies the cultural impact and “ripple effect” of the arts in small towns across America. In Boca Raton, the Museum’s roots reach back to the late 1940s, when a group of socially active women came together to form the town’s first organization, a civic club, with the goal to build a small library. Two library board members, philanthropist Hildegarde Schine and socialite Roberta MacSpadden had been appointed to organize the Open House. They met in the 1920’s Town Hall, where an estimated 1000 people flooded the Library Open House, which included an exhibition of paintings, borrowed from friends and loaned by galleries from Palm Beach to Miami. There and then, the Library Association decided they should form an organization to further this inter
