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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
At this time, the name was also changed to Great Explorations Children's Museum dropping the "Hands-On" title. Designs for the new museum included more offices and school rooms as the museum intended to expand out their staffing and education capabilities. The museum also petitioned for and was given a grant from AmeriCorps and had Americorps ...
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
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 ...
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.
The Matheson History Museum received a $300,000 historic preservation grant from the Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources, along with contributions from private donors, to transform the building into a library and archives for the museum's local history collections. The Matheson Library & Archives was completed in 2017.
The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art is an art museum at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. It is in the UF Cultural Plaza area in the southwest part of campus. The Harn is a 112,800-square-foot facility, making it one of the largest university art museums in the South. This includes 40,400 square feet of exhibition space, 5 garden ...
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.