Category: Museums
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Edison & Ford Winter Estates
Who knew Thomas Edison and Henry Ford were well acquainted? Who knew they had homes within yards of each other? And who knew Edison had a large research laboratory on the grounds of the estate to find a suitable source of rubber in the United States? I’d never heard any of these things but they’re
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Museum of Science & Industry
This was quite the adventure. I’ve driven past the Museum of Science & Industry many times. I decided it was time to check it out. I imagined thought-provoking exhibits that would dazzle me about how the universe works. What I didn’t anticipate was my feeling of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Imagine Museum
What a great name for a glass museum. Although many pieces are realistic and you can attach a noun to them like flower, monkey, or horse, others are more abstract. Their titles give you the opportunity to take a second look and imagine what you might have produced if given a concept like “Fractured Earth”
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Museum of Fine Arts St. Pete
The Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg has an eclectic mix of styles and subject matter from multiple eras. Their brochure describes it as an “encyclopedic collection of art from around the globe and across the centuries” and they have about 5,000 years of civilization represented. There are Greek, Roman, Asian, African and Native
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James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art
I’ll get to the point right up front: I loved this museum. In fact, I’d put it on my all-time favorites list. This was an expansive, light, fresh space. The museum has two floors divided into galleries – Native Life, Early West, Native Artists, Frontier, and New West. There is an auditorium, an event space,
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Ringling Museum
The Ringling Museum is a whopping 66-acre complex with a rose garden; a couple of art galleries; a secluded, fenced-in garden for John and Mable’s graves; an intricately tiled reflecting pool; a circus museum; a building showcasing a miniature circus; and John and Mable’s house, Ca’ d’Zan. The first building along the path was the
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Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art
The Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art is located on the Tarpon Springs Campus of St. Petersburg College. You have to wonder why St. Petersburg College isn’t located in St. Petersburg, right? But let’s move on. The Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art has over 7,000 modern and contemporary works from 20th and 21st century art. Now, as you
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Tampa Bay History Center & Columbia Cafe
Tampa Bay History Center is well worth your time. It has three floors of exhibits covering a multitude of topics pertinent to Tampa – the cigar industry, indigenous tribes then and now, the Civil War participation, the Mafia, pirates and privateers and much more. The clever set-up encourages visitors to linger at the displays. Not
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Dali Museum
Warning: Irreverent opinions from an uneducated artist follow. If you love Salvador Dali, you might want to skip this post. In an effort to do something outside my comfort zone, I decided to visit the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg. I expected to hate it, since I’m not a Dali fan but, overall, it was
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Chihuly Collection
Dale Chihuly was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1941. He learned glass art while studying interior design and architecture at the University of Washington. After graduation in 1964, he went on to study glassblowing at the University of Wisconsin and then at Rhode Island School of Design. Offhand, I’d say he did all right. As
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