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Learn a little about beautiful Atlantic City New Jersey

The casinos and night life of Atlantic City are a powerful draw to be sure, but the city's attractions extend beyond the gaming tables. Why not add a little cultural or educational flavor to your visit by venturing into one of the city's museums?

A good place to start is the Atlantic City Art Center on Garden Pier. Located at New Jersey Avenue on the Boardwalk, it overlooks the ocean and hosts three galleries. At any given time, oil paintings, acrylics, water colors, pastels, graphics and sculptures will be on display, offering enough variety to pique anyone's interest.

The Art Center's Al Gold Photography exhibit, named for the man who shot the first Miss America pageant and later became Atlantic City's first chief photographer, rotates photography exhibits.

At the Atlantic City Historical Museum, also located on the Boardwalk at New Jersey Avenue, you can learn a lot about Atlantic City's saucy history through photographs, artifacts, postcards and a video presentation, called Boardwalk Ballyhoo: The Magic of Atlantic City.

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Boardwalk Living Theatre brings Atlantic City's history alive in a different way, with tours that get you up close and personal with the city. You might learn where the first board of the world famous Boardwalk was installed 131 years ago, discover the route rum runners took to the seas during the 1920s prohibition era, or hear a local provide the inside skinny on the Miss America pageant.

On Boardwalk Living Theatre's group tours, you will be guided by a costumed character from the city's yesteryears. Perhaps it will be "Sara Spencer," Atlantic City's first African-American millionaire, or "Margaret Gorman" the very first Miss America.

Elsewhere in Atlantic City you can meet characters of a different sort. Take Groman and Octavia, for example. Groman is a 198-pound loggerhead turtle with a rather serious expression on his face, while Octavia is an octopus who changes colors to blend with her environment.

Groman, Octavia and more than100 other varieties of fish and marine animals reside at the Ocean Life Center, located on New Hampshire Avenue and The Bay at the confluence of Absecon Inlet and Clam Creek. The Center's exhibits include exotic species, such as the domino damsel and longnose hawkfish in the Coral Reef aquarium, and some more familiar ones, such as the sea bass and bluefish in the Fish of the Jersey Coast Aquarium. The Center also has ten marine and maritime exhibits. One of them, called Sea Sights and Sounds links big pictures of deep sea animals to recordings of their sounds. It brings a whole new perspective to the concept of a seaside resort.