As Indiana's only urban cultural state park, White River State Park serves as a diverse world-class resource through the preservation of greenspace, waterways, nature, education, public art, culture, sports, and entertainment destinations that benefit the lifestyles of the visiting community. The Park offers a variety of volunteer opportunities to area businesses and schools. In addition, the Park has also started a FREE performance art program called the Family Arts Series. These FREE events highlight many of Indianapolis' premiere art organizations including dance, theater, storytelling, music and visual arts.

Whether measured by size, number of artifacts, or number of visitors, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is the world's largest. Attracting more than one million children and adults each year, the museum features more than 110,000 artifacts, including the world-renowned Dinosphere exhibition.

The Indianapolis Artsgarden, a seven-story, glass enclosed arts space in the heart of downtown Indianapolis, is a unique cultural icon of Indianapolis representing the urban renewal of downtown. Each year, the Artsgarden features more than 300 free performances and exhibitions by artists from around the country and right here in Indianapolis.

Located on 152 acres of gardens and grounds, the Indianapolis Museum of Art is the fifth largest art museum in the United States, with a collection of more than 50,000 works. Celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2008, the museum is among the country's 10 oldest arts museums.

Currently under construction in downtown Indianapolis, the Indianapolis Cultural Trail is an 8-mile urban bicycle and pedestrian path that connects neighborhoods, entertainment amenities and arts facilities, the city's six cultural districts, and is home to more than $2 million in public art. Upon completion, it will be the only one of its kind in the world.

The Indianapolis Children's Choir is among the largest and most accomplished choirs in the nation, with more than 1,700 singers in 20 choirs and programs. It includes an early childhood division, outreach and after-school programs, and numerous performing ensembles that have represented the City of Indianapolis throughout the world.

The International Violin Competition of Indianapolis is one of the top competitions of its kind in the world, bringing the world's best, young violin virtuosos to Indianapolis every four years.

The Heartland Film Festival, presented in downtown Indianapolis each year, celebrates the accomplishments of writers, directors, and movie studios presenting films that bring out the best of the human spirit.

Named after America's first self-made African-American female millionaire, the Madame Walker Theatre Center is a National Historic Landmark. The center includes a fully restored 944-seat grand theatre, education program, a history museum, and a full season of arts performances, educational activities, and community celebrations.

The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art is the only museum of its kind in the Midwest and contains one of the most renowned collections of Native American and Western art in the world, including work by artists such as N. C. Wyeth, Georgia O'Keefe, and Frederic Remington.

The Indianapolis Zoo, including the 3.3-acre White River Gardens, welcomes more than one million visitors each year and plays a major role in worldwide conservation and research. It's the only attraction accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association and the American Association of Museums as a zoo, an aquarium, and a botanical garden and the only zoo in the world that boasts an underwater dolphin encounter area.

Besides being the nation's longest continuously operating community theater, the Indianapolis Civic Theatre is among the 10 largest of the country's 7,000 active community theaters.

One of only 17 full-time orchestras in the nation, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra performs more than 200 concerts annually at the historic Hilbert Circle Theatre and at Symphony on the Prairie at Conner Prairie Living History Museum.

The American Pianists Association, a national music competition, celebrates young jazz and classical pianists through biennial competitions.

With 55,000 square-feet of core exhibits featuring art, science, and culture and an additional 15,000 square-feet in changing galleries, the Indiana State Museum is one of the largest and most modern state museums in the country. With more than half a million artifacts and specimens in its collections and 12 historic sites around the state, the museum is a leader in multi-disciplinary education.

Indianapolis' public art collection includes temporary and permanent exhibitions of local, national, and international artists, as well as the nation's second largest collection of monuments and memorials (following only Washington D.C).