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The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art has a permanent collection of more than 6,000 original works including paintings, sculptures, prints, ceramics, photographs, and cultural objects. Among the artistic traditions represented are those of the Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe and the South Pacific Islands. The museum also features a variety of changing exhibitions, and a full range of educational programs. Admission is free. The Florida Museum of Natural History is Florida's state museum of natural history, dedicated to understanding and preserving biological diversity and cultural heritage. With more than 25 million specimens of amphibians, birds, butterflies, fish, mammals, mollusks, reptiles, fossils and plants, the Florida Museum is the largest natural history museum in the Southeast. Admission is free. The College of Design, Construction and Planning Gallery hosts regular displays of student projects, and also showcases traveling exhibitions of significant works from noteworthy architects past present, providing you with exposure to historical precedents and contemporary currents in the field. "the gallery" in the J. Wayne Reitz Union features artwork by UF students, faculty, staff, and alumni. The College of Fine Arts School of Art and Art History supports three campus galleries. The University Gallery hosts six exhibitions per year that bring current ideas in contemporary art to UF students and the surrounding community. The Focus Gallery provides exhibition spaces for students of the College of Fine Arts to show their work in a public forum. Grinter Gallery in Grinter Hall exhibits art created by international students and area artists, as well as traveling shows of internationally based art. The College of Fine Arts School of Theatre and Dance hosts numerous musical, theatrical and dance events on campus in its Constans Theatre, Black Box Theatre and Dance Studios in the Nadine MacGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion. The H.P. Constans Theatre , adjacent to the Reitz Union, houses a 420-seat proscenium theatre, and State Two, a block box theatre with approximately 40 seats. The college's School of Music holds jazz, choral, orchestral, ensemble and solo musical performances in the University Auditorium. Tickets for events at the Constans Theatre, Phillips Center, O'Connell Center and various other campus venues are sold at the University of Florida Box Office , 352-392-1653. UF Performing Arts hosts a variety of musical and theatrical events in three venues. The Phillips Center for the Performing Arts attracts world-class symphony orchestras, Broadway plays, opera and large-scale ballet performances to its 1,800-seat facility. The University Auditorium includes a concert stage, seating for 867 and is suitable for musical concerts, special lectures, convocations and less technically demanding dance concerts and pageants. It is one of several university buildings included in the National Register of Historic Places . The Baughman Center is a small facility (seating capacity of 96) for silent meditation, public performances, weddings, memorial services, honorary society acknowledgments, and related types of activities. UF's landmark Century Tower houses a cast-bell carillon ; one of only four such instruments in Florida. Concerts are played on football Saturdays, commencement weekends and during other campus festive days, and fifteen-minute concerts are played most weekdays. Student Government Productions sponsors performances by touring artists in the Stephen C. O'Connell Center . Check the calendars of special events for upcoming concerts and dates.

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