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Florida Museum of Natural History: Gainesville: Alachua: North Central: Exhibits include fossils, butterfly rainforest, recreated southwest Florida mangrove forest and sea grass estuary, area Native Americans, Northwest Florida ecosystems, outdoor wildflower and butterfly garden, trails through 60-acre Natural Area Teaching Lab
Panama Canal Museum Florida, Seminole, closed in 2012, collections transferred to the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida in Gainesville [52] Skatelab, Atlantic Beach, closed in 2009, original store and museum in Simi Valley, California still open; Teddy Bear Museum of Naples, Naples, closed in 2005
Great Explorations Children's Museum (formerly Great Explorations - The Hands-On Museum) is a children's museum, program center, and pre-school in St Petersburg, Florida. It was founded in 1986 by The Junior League of St. Petersburg and Hands-On, Inc.
The foundation planned to design and build a museum in Gainesville. [4] The museum was funded by a culmination of 13 years of fundraising by the Cade Museum Foundation, which raised $9.2 million. [5] The building was designed by GWWO Architects in Baltimore. [6] Construction took place from April 2016 to November 2017 by Oelrich Construction ...
The Historic Haile Homestead, also known as Haile Plantation House or Kanapaha, is a historic site and museum in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is located at 8500 SW Archer Rd. SR 24 . On May 2, 1986, the plantation house was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places .The Homestead is unique in the Nation for its "Talking ...
The A. Quinn Jones Museum and Cultural Center is a museum in Gainesville, Florida. The museum preserves the legacy of Allen Quin Jones (1893–1994), [ 3 ] a local educator who dedicated his life to educating African-Americans.
Old Vaca train station at the Crane Point Museum. Crane Point features several facilities: Museum of Natural History of the Florida Keys, exhibits focus on the natural and cultural history of the Keys area, including Calusa Indians, Spanish explorers and other Keys pioneers, pirates, a diorama of a coral reef, butterflies, tree snails, sea turtles, shells, Key deer and local tropical fish.
Indian Key Historic State Park is an island within the Florida State Park system, located just a few hundred yards southeast of U.S. 1 within the Florida Keys off the Hawk Channel passage. The island was home to the town of Indian Key, Florida, in the middle of the 19th century but is now an uninhabited ghost town. [2]