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This rare mural at Vizcaya is ‘dying.’ A $750,000 grant will bring it back to life

A delicate, rare mural of shimmering water, glimmering shells, swirling fish and friendly turtles decorates the grotto at Vizcaya, one of Miami’s most picturesque historic sites. But it’s in a sea of ...
The Art Newspaper

Miami’s Vizcaya Museum will save century-old pool-grotto mural with National Park Service grant

A 107-year-old ceiling mural at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami will undergo a conservation and restoration project to preserve a rare work of art in a swimming-pool grotto, thanks to a grant from ...
Business Wire

Restoration Ramps Up for Vizcaya's Swimming Pool Grotto Thanks to $750,000 Save America’s Treasures Grant

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is proud to have been awarded a $750,000 grant from the National Park Service’s Save America's Treasures grant program, funded through the Historic ...
SFGate

American Samoa swimming grotto with flower-covered walls

Why we went: We went to American Samoa because we are trying to visit all the National Park units, and we went to independent Samoa because it is 30 minutes away by plane but also 25 hours away by ...