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Be careful as you drive toward the Auburn campus on South College Street, because the sight of the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art usually stops traffic. Located in front of a lake in a beautiful building and setting, the museum opened in 2003 as the only university museum in the state. The 40,000-square-foot modern building is an architectural delight with a travertine stone exterior. Inside are offices, seven exhibition galleries, a museum shop, a café and an auditorium. Outside, visitors can enjoy approximately 15 acres of botanical gardens with large-scale sculpture; a three-acre lake; and a landscape that incorporates walking paths, benches and water features. The museum is open Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., and the Café Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is free.

The Auburn University Department of Theatre presents about six productions per year in Telfair Peet Theatre on campus.

The Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities, more popularly known as Pebble Hill, offers programming in Alabama schools, towns and communities that strengthens the bond between the academic community, the arts and the general public. The center’s home in Auburn is the historic 1847 Scott-Yarbrough House, and a calendar of events can be found at media.cla.auburn.edu/
cah/index.htm.

The Louise Kreher Forest Ecology Preserve, located on Highway 147 (College Street) north of the campus, is a 110-acre nature center with a large amphitheater, monthly programs and miles of beautiful hiking trails with many points of interest. The preserve is a nature center established as an outreach program of the Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences. Its mission is to provide programs, experiences, nature trails and natural habitats for education, study and relaxation, while creating an atmosphere of discovery and stewardship toward our natural world. It is supported principally through memberships, private gifts and the efforts of many volunteers.

The center reaches out to people of every age with a strong focus on families and children.

Located on the Auburn University campus, the Donald E. Davis Arboretum provides a peaceful natural setting to provide conservation, education and research on ecosystem preservation and diversity. The arboretum shows plants growing in the special habitats that exist in the state of Alabama, such as rocky hillsides, stream bottoms, pond edges, salt-spray-influenced sand dunes, pitcher plant bogs and the alkaline soil of the Black Belt Prairie.


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