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The Clearwater area's best kept secret is the
Pinewood Cultural Park. Over 180 acres, the park
incorporates pleasure with education relating to local
history, nature and the environment and the visual arts.
Heritage Village, a 21-acre open-air living history
museum amid tall pines and palmettos, offers 23 of the
county's oldest structures, with two dating back to the
Civil War era.
The Florida Botanical Gardens features all Florida
plants, both native and non-native with wildlife nesting
habitat, restored wetlands and natural bridges
interacting with the more formal gardens.
The Gulf Coast Museum Of Art features a permanent
collection of contemporary Florida art in all its
manifestations with a special focus on fine contemporary
craft media objects from the 12 southeastern states.
The Clearwater area is enriched by and enlightened
through our
world-class museums such as the
Salvador Dali, home of the largest collection of his
work outside Spain, the
Florida Holocaust Memorial Museum and Educational Center
bringing the depth of emotion from that era, and the
Museum of Fine Arts with its elegant building
showcasing world-renown artists. The
Leepa-Rattner Museum of Arts features an extensive
expressionist collection by Allen Leepa and Abraham
Rattner, including their friends Picasso, Rouault,
Hofmann and Ernst.
The Florida International Museum will host a very
special exhibition this year featuring 250 superlative
pieces from the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg
spanning over 800 years of Russian history.
Our museums are not just for adults. Children and
their parents will find the exhibits within
Great Explorations-The Hands On Museum stimulating
and intriguing, designed to be touched, moved and
explored. The
David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum with its
playful themes makes fine arts fun through intelligent,
interactive experiences including cartoon-making, acting
and stop-motion animation.
Click here for a complete list of museums.
Outstanding theaters characterize the Clearwater area.
Constructed in 1983 by the Frank Lloyd Wright
Foundation,
Ruth Eckerd Hall at the Richard B. Baumgardner
Center for the Performing Arts, is well known and
respected for its acoustics and state-of-the-art
equipment and offers a wide range of performances for
every age. Clearwater’s "community"
Capitol Theater,
located in historic downtown Clearwater, showcases an
extremely wide variety of performance types. Click here
for a complete list of performing arts and dinner
theaters.
With our weather, it is natural the arts come outside.
For example, Shakespeare in the Park brings the bard to
life in a way not experienced indoors. Art shows
decorate the waterfront and our parks. Known for our
outdoor concerts overlooking the water either at
Coachman Park in downtown or on beautiful Clearwater
Beach, all types of musical professionals visit during
the year, especially on holiday weekends.
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