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The lobby of the Bishop Planetarium located at the South Florida Museum in Bradenton, FL. In the 1960s plans were made to create a new facility for the Museum, and prominent local physician and philanthropist (and one of the Museum's "founding-fathers"), William Daniel "W.D." Sugg, felt strongly that the new space should house a planetarium.
Bradenton (/ ˈ b r eɪ d ən t ən / ⓘ BRAY-dən-tən) is a city in and the county seat [8] of Manatee County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census , the city's population is 55,698, up from 49,546 at the 2010 census.
Bishop Planetarium at Bishop Museum of Science and Nature, Bradenton, Florida; Bryan-Gooding Planetarium in the Alexander Brest Science Theatre at the Museum of Science and History, Jacksonville, Florida; Buehler Planetarium and Observatory, Davie, Florida; Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium, Fort Myers, Florida
South Florida Museum: Bradenton: Manatee Southwest Natural history Natural and cultural history of Florida's gulf coast, includes the Bishop Planetarium and Parker Manatee Aquarium South Florida Railway Museum: Deerfield Beach: Broward Southeast Railroad Includes model train layouts, railroad artifacts South Florida Science Center and Aquarium
Snooty (July 21, 1948 – July 23, 2017) was a male Florida manatee that resided at the Bishop Museum of Science and Nature's Parker Manatee Aquarium in Bradenton, Florida. He was one of the first recorded captive manatee births, and at age 69, he was the oldest manatee in captivity, [ 1 ] and possibly the oldest manatee in the world.
The Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory, or AMPO, also known as the Eastern Florida State College Planetarium and Observatory, was an astronomical observatory and planetarium at Eastern Florida State College in Cocoa, Florida. The facility consisted of a planetarium, public observatory, large-screen movie theater, exhibit halls ...
The Frost Planetarium is a 250-seat full-dome screen with a diameter of 67 feet (20 m) and a 16-million-color, 8K projection system. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The three-story, cone-shaped, 500,000-US-gallon (1,900,000 L) Aquarium is open to the top level and also includes a 31-foot (9.4 m) diameter oculus lens at the bottom for viewing the fish, rays and ...
Manatee Village Historical Park preserves the pioneer heritage of Manatee County's founding period of 1840-1918. The historical park contains 14 preserved and replica structures representative of the founding period, including the 1903 Wiggins General Store, the Fogarty Boatworks, the 1912 Stephens House, a smokehouse, a sugar cane mill, a barn, the 1887 Methodist church, the 1908 schoolhouse ...