Tag: Museum
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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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Florida Holocaust Museum
The Florida Holocaust Museum is well worth your time. It painstakingly chronicles the plight of Jewish people beginning in 922 BCE until today. And it breaks your heart. The more photos and memorabilia you see, the heavier the history becomes – required identity cards, discarded shoes, bricks from the crematorium chimney. It is overwhelming but
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Florida Museum of Photographic Arts
Originally called the Tampa Gallery of Photographic Arts, this museum was born in 2001. It was renamed the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts in the summer of 2006 and relocated to the Waterfront Arts District in Rivergate Plaza’s six-story Cube building, second floor. I’m glad I took the time to drive over and check it
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Tarpon Springs
If you’re looking for a place with enough things to do to fill a day, Tarpon Springs is for you. Some of Florida’s earliest indigenous people settled near the mouth of the Anclote River at Tarpon Springs over 500 years ago. They left behind earthen burial mounds that yielded beautiful pottery and plentiful artifacts. These
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