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The city puts on a Black Heritage Festival inFebruary,while year-round cultur- al attractions include the Tampa Bay History Center, the David A. Straz Center for Performing Arts and the Henry B. Plant Museum at the University of Tampa, which focuses on the history of the Tampa Bay Hotel and the Gilded Age. Along the artworks inside, the Tampa Museum of Art at Curtis HixonWaterfront Park displays an impressive work of contemporary architecture on its campus: the 66.000-sq. ft. Cornelia Corbett Center sporting pierced aluminum siding and a translucent ceiling. One of Tampa’s most unique cultural sites Visitor enjoying exhibit at Tampa Museum of Art is Ybor City, the Latin American neighbor- hood that is home to a 210,000-sq. ft. shopping and entertainment complex called Centro Ybor. The 600,000-sq. ft. Tampa Convention Center is the city’s largest meeting space, containing 200,000 sq. ft. of exhibit space and a 36,000-sq. ft. ballroom. Area guestrooms total approximately 24,000. GEORGIA TheMartin Luther King, Jr.NationalHistoric Site inAtlanta isGeorgia’s best-known Black heritage attraction, and theTubmanMuseuminMacon is its largestAfrican-Americanmuseum,but even some of the state’s smaller des- tinations offer interesting places to explore the history of its Black people. Georgia’smountainous region is home to the Beulah RuckerMuseuminGainesville, honoring the efforts of a localAfrican-American leader to start a school for Black children.The northwestern town of Calhoun is 100%Authentic. Tampa Bay. For more information about booking your next convention, contact Sherri Brown:813.342.4062 or email SBrown@VisitTampaBay.com. 42 Black Meetings & Tourism May/June 2011: www.blackmeetingsandtourism.com Photo Credit: Tampa CVB