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Dunedin
Fine Art Center/ David L. Mason Children's Art Museum,
1143 Michigan Blvd., Dunedin (727) 298-3322.
Only children's art museum on the West Coast of Florida
and one of three in Florida with award-winning exhibitions
featuring Floridian art. |
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Dunedin
Historical Museum, 349 Main Street, Dunedin (727)
736-1176.
The original station for the Orange Belt Railroad System
dating to 1889, houses history of Dunedin and Pinellas
County. |
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Florida
Holocaust Memorial Museum and Educational Center,
55 Fifth Street South, St. Petersburg (727) 820-0100.
Third largest of its kind in U.S. featuring art, photography
and documentary exhibits from around the world. |
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Florida
International Museum, 100 Second Street North, St.
Petersburg (800) 777-9882 or (727) 822-3693.
A Smithsonian Institute Affiliate with a permanent collection
of early 1960s popular culture with a focus on the Cuban
Missile Crisis and a Kennedy collection. New wing houses
Smithsonian artifacts. Special exhibition slated from
February to May will feature 250 superlative pieces from
the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg with artifacts
spanning over 800 years of Russian history. |
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Gulf
Coast Museum of Art, 12211 Walsingham Road, Largo
(727) 518-6833.
A diverse exhibition schedule representing all periods
and styles, particularly contemporary Florida art and
southeastern fine crafts, a student exhibition gallery,
lectures, seminars, film programs and a comprehensive
studio teaching program for adults and children. |
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Great
Explorations - Hands On Children's Museum , 1927 Fourth
Street North, St. Petersburg (727) 821-8992.
Stretch mental muscles, test wits, fire up the imagination
with exhibits in the arts, sciences, technology and health,
all designed to be touched, moved, explored at the 'Children's
Hands On' museum popular with all ages. |
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Heritage Village, 11909 125th Street North, Largo
(727) 582-2123.
A 21-acre, turn-of-the-century Pinellas County village.
Attractions include restored houses of local pioneers,
the Lowe Barn, an old railroad depot, and some 10 other
historical structures. The Pinellas Historical Museum
traces the county's history from the Spanish-Indian period
to contemporary times. |
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Leppa-Rattner Museum of Art, 600 Klosterman Road (St.
Petersburg College), Tarpon Springs (727) 712-5718
Extensive collection of art mediums by Abraham Rattner,
noted figurative expressionist artist, and Allen Leepa,
renowned abstractionist, plus works by other expressionist
artists of the period. |
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Medieval Brass Rubbing Center and Museum, 822 Dodecanese
Blvd., Tarpon Springs
(727) 934-6760.
Features a permanent collection of over 150 commemorative
brass facsimiles. |
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Museum of Fine Arts, 225 Beach Drive North, St. Petersburg
(727) 896-2667.
Only comprehensive art collection from antiquity to present
day on Florida's West Coast. Collection of 4,000
objects includes works by Cezanne, Monet, Renoir and Rodin. |
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St. Petersburg Museum of History, 335 2nd Avenue N.E.,
St. Petersburg (727) 894-1052.
With a rotating gallery, features the history of commercial
aviation in Florida with a replica of the Benoit and a
timeline exhibit depicting the development of St. Petersburg
and Pinellas County. |
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Safety Harbor Museum of Regional History, 329 South
Bayshore Blvd., Safety Harbor (727) 726-1668.
Features artifacts of our regional area from prehistoric
times to Aboriginal Indians and pioneers, with four educational
exhibits a year. |
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Salvador Dali Museum, 1003 3rd Street, St. Petersburg
(727) 823-3767.
Features the world's most comprehensive collection of
Dali's work. Collection includes 94 oils, 200 watercolors
and drawings and 1000 graphics, sculptures and objets
d'art. |
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Science Center of Pinellas County, Inc., 7701
22nd Avenue N., St. Petersburg (727) 384-0027
A hands-on teaching museum with interactive exhibits exploring physics, archaeology
and inventions, the Carol Samuels Observatory and a 16th century Floridian Indian
Village featuring the mounds and temples of both a Chief and a Shaman, a Village
Cook's hut, an Indian garden and a realistic archaeological excavation
of an Indian midden. |
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Tarpon Springs Cultural Center, 101 South Pinellas
Avenue, Tarpon Springs (727) 942-5605.
Promotes and preserves the city's Greek heritage, culture and natural resources.
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Tarpon Springs Heritage Museum, 100 Beckman Lane, Tarpon
Springs, (727) 937-0686.
Contains history and ecology exhibits and information, particularly how the
marine and natural environments shaped the city's development, the local
people and the sponging industry. |
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Ybor City State Museum, 1818 9th Avenue, Tampa (813) 247-6323.
Features exhibits detailing the founding of Ybor City and the development of
the cigar trade. |
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Ybor City National Historic Landmark District, Tampa's Latin
Quarter (813) 248-3712.
One of only three historical landmark districts in the state, a cultural and
historical community offering shopping, art galleries, fine and casual dining,
micro-brewery, a restored cigar factory, museums and walking tours. |
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