The Frank Lloyd Wright Virtual Museum

January 13th, 2010 by warrantneximus
The Frank Lloyd Wright Virtual Museum Falls

The Frank Lloyd Wright Virtual Museum Falls

The Frank Lloyd Wright Virtual Museum (FLWVM slurl) reopened on November 20, 2009 with a successful three-day event. The celebration included live music, a silent auction, discussion, a members only ball and fireworks. The museum itself, inspired by Wright’s design of the Unity Temple in Chicago, includes two floors of exhibits with detailed notecards and a theater on the third floor. Farther back on the sim features five homes designed directly, and with braggable accuracy, after some of Wright’s work.

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