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Mon.-Sat. 9AM-5PMSun. 2-5PM
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$5 general admission; $4 seniors and teens; $3 children ages 3-12Ava Gardner Museum
325 E Market St
Smithfield, NC 27577
919-934-5830
www.avagardner.org
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After being kissed on the cheek by Miss Ava Gardner when he was 12 years old, Tom Bank devoted the rest of his life to memorializing this screen legend. In the town where Ava was born and buried -- Smithfield, N.C. -- Bank spent his life assembling artifacts, photos and memories of the star's life. He died in 1990, but the museum lives on, now operated by the town of Smithfield. To step into this 3,000-square-foot museum is to be swept away into a surreal landscape of Hollywood's golden age. Through hundreds of photographs, an archive of newspaper articles, portraits and hundreds of personal objects collected by Banks and donated by family and friends, the Ava Gardner Museum illustrates every moment of the starlet's life, from her three marriages to her numerous movies. TIP: The gift shop touts Ava in many forms, from mousepads to a cookbook of her favorite recipes.
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