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Featured as one of the world's finest Native American and Western Art collections by True West, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art is one of only two such museums east of the Mississippi. Located in White River State Park, the Eiteljorg contains traditional and contemporary pieces by such artists as T.C. Cannon, Andy Warhol and Georgia O'Keefe.

Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the NFL's Indianapolis Colts, is a state-of-the-art retractable roof, multi-purpose facility seating over 67,000 fans. It offers public tours every week that give participants an up-close and personal look at all the stadium has to offer. Tours last approximately one hour and includes visits to the playing field, an NFL locker room, Lucas Oil Plaza, the press box, and many other areas depending on availability that are generally inaccessible to the public.

Located downtown in White River State Park, the Indianapolis Zoo is a 64-acre accredited zoo, aquarium, and botanical garden. Since opening in 1964, the zoo takes pride in providing year-round and lifelong recreational learning experiences for its more than 1 million annual visitors and instilling in them a sense of stewardship for Earth's plants and animals. The mission of the Indianapolis Zoo is to empower people and communities, both locally and globally, to advance animal conservation. The primary points where people connect with animals and plants are within the zoo's "biomes," or collection of habitats. Approximately 250 species totaling 2,000 animals and 2,000 varieties of plants are presented together in simulated natural habitats. As visitors travel through the zoo, they go from one fascinating ecological system to another, and they begin to get a sense of appreciation for the diversity of life. Because many people will never have the opportunity to visit an African Savannah or an Asian temperate forest, the zoo immerses guests into these natural environments. For example: touch sharks, race a cheetah, view dolphins from more than 10 feet under water, feed birds as they rest on your shoulder, or elevate yourself into the arboreal world of orangutans. From the arctic land of the penguins and polar bear near the front of the zoo to the realm of the kings of the beasts -- the majestic African lions -- near the far end, a visit to the Indianapolis Zoo is literally a trip around the world! In addition, the zoo's White River Gardens includes a 5,000 square foot conservatory and three acres of beautifully landscaped outdoor garden rooms.

The home of the NBA Pacers and World Champion WNBA Fever has been recognized as the finest NBA basketball arena in the country by Sports Business Journal. This retro-style fieldhouse in the heart of downtown also serves as a prime location for meetings and events of all types year-round, from rodeos and concerts to parties and ice skating.

With a 472,900 square-foot facility situated on 29 acres, it is the largest children's museum in the world. With five floors of fun and interactive learning that have the power to transform the lives of children and families across the arts, world cultures, sciences, and humanities. Explore one of the largest collections of adult and juvenile dinosaur fossils and visit with real archaeologists in National Geographic Treasures of the Earth, which examines treasures uncovered from various parts of the world including a shipwreck in the Caribbean. Photo opportunities include the 16-foot-tall movie prop Bumblebee, from the first Transformers movie, North America's largest water clock, and a historic working carousel.

Over the years, the museum has amassed one of the world's largest, and most varied collections of racing, antique and classic cars, including more than 30 that have won the famous Indianapolis 500. Year-round narrated bus tours of the race track are available, weather permitting and when the track is not in use for racing, testing, or special events. The Tony Hulman Theatre presents a short film on the history of the track and its’ importance to fans worldwide. The Grounds Tour is a 1 1/2-hour narrated tour of the historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway facility that provides guests the opportunity to tour the oval track, visit the media center, the Pagoda, victory platform, garage area and a Gasoline Alley suite, plus stand on the famous "Yard of Bricks" at the start/finish line. In addition, guests will also tour the museum. The “Kiss the Bricks” tour gives fans a lap of the famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval narrated by a former Indianapolis Motor Speedway driver and a chance to kiss the bricks just as the winning drivers and teams do. Address Information

Indianapolis Museum of Art, part of the Newfields campus and one of the nation's largest and oldest general art museums. Located on 152 acres of gardens and grounds, the museum's permanent collection spans a vast range of cultures and eras, and numbers more than 50,000 works, including one of the nation's largest and most significant collections of Asian art and the newly designed Eiteljorg Suite of African and Oceanic Art. Elsewhere on the grounds, visitors may tour the historic Oldfields estate, then stroll through gardens designed in the 1920s by the famous Olmstead Brothers landscape design firm. Elsewhere, 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park offers visitors one of the United States' foremost museum contemporary sculpture parks, with installations integrated into woodlands, wetlands, lakes and meadows.