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Florida Museums
Florida Museums
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DuBois Pioneer Home
Tour this 1898 Historic Home
Category: Jupiter Museum near Miami, Florida
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Description of this Miami area Attraction: The 1898 shingle-style home sits atop a Native American Shell Mound and contains period furnishings, clothing and artifacts. The home was built by Harry and Susan DuBois and provides a unique glimpse of life in the area at the turn of the century. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Harry DuBois was born February 10, 1871 (d. 1924), on a farm in Holmdel, New Jersey. His father, John Rue DuBois (1844-1914), and mother, Anna Douglass DuBois (1848-1928), had an apple orchard in New Jersey and grew vegetables. When Harry was 16 years old, he came to Florida in 1887 to work in an orange grove on Merritt Island (Brevard County). In 1892, he sailed into the Jupiter Inlet and noticed the Indian shell mound and liked the location. He bought 20 acres of land on what is now the Intra-coastal Waterway, and grew pineapples on 10 acres. DuBois befriended Captain Charles Carlin and became part of Carlin’s crew at the Jupiter Life Saving Station and helped him build the DuBois Home.
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Florida Museum of Natural History
The state's official natural history museum
Category: Gainesville Museum in Florida
Description of this Gainesville Attraction: Chartered by the Florida Legislature in 1917, the Florida Museum of Natural History serves as the state’s official natural history museum. It is the largest collections-based natural history museum in the Southeast, with one of the nation’s top 10 natural history collections. The museum's education and exhibit center houses four permanent exhibits:
· In the Hall of Florida Fossils: Evolution of Life and Land guests will learn about Florida’s geologic and environmental changes over the past 65 million years, and the fossils that give insight to the plants and animals that have made their home here.
· South Florida People & Environments explains the story of native people in South Florida and the environments that have supported them for thousands of years. Visitors can walk along a boardwalk through a mangrove forest, travel underwater to view larger-than-life marine creatures, visit the house of a Calusa leader and much more.
· Northwest Florida: Waterways and Wildlife displays a full-sized replica of a North Florida limestone cave and educates visitors about the amazing diversity of Florida’s panhandle, the most biologically rich region of the state.
· The McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity and the Butterfly Rainforest opens Aug. 14, 2004, and will bring visitors face-to-face with hundreds of living butterflies. The 64,000-square-foot Butterfly Rainforest is complete with tropical and subtropical plants and trees, waterfalls and a walking trail. Guests also can view thousands of Lepidoptera species on the “Wall of Wings” and learn about butterfly and moth biology. The McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity will house a collection of more than 4 million butterflies and moths, making it the second-largest Lepidoptera collection in the world.
· The museum also produces and hosts traveling exhibits, and presents adult and children’s classes, group tours and special events.
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Men, Salt, Cattle & Battle: The Civil War in Florida
The story of Florida's role in the Civil War
Category: Inverness Museum near Ocala, Florida
Description of this Ocala area Attraction: This display of pictures, early maps and historic photographs, and rare and unique artifacts is used to help relate the story of Florida’s special role in the Civil War. This story is often overlooked in the retelling of accounts of this great and tragic era of American history. “The Old Courthouse Heritage Museum plows new ground with the production of this exhibit – utilizing its expanded capacity to develop exciting and information presentations,” says Karl Seidman, long-time volunteer docent at the Museum.
Florida is often considered the forgotten Confederate state. One contemporary referred to the state as the “smallest tadpole in the dirty pool of secession.” Nonetheless, Florida played a vital role in the war with its approximately 1,300 miles of shoreline.
This long coastline proved invaluable for the production of salt, made by boiling sea water in large kettles or evaporating it in man-made tidal pools. The exhibition also highlights the importance of Florida cattle which provided much of the beef for the main southern armies, particularly during the later stages of the war.
With this large expanse of coastline, Floridians recognized their vulnerability to invasion, blockade and occupation, and actually started organizing new volunteer military forces to defend the state even before the firing on Fort Sumter, which marked the beginning of the Civil War. Many of these “minute man” units became the companies that later joined the Confederate forces. Citrus County had its own home guard present here in 1861. Florida’s contribution to the war grew to a total of 15,000 troops. These then were organized into twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a few artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations.
This exhibition looks at the three battles that occurred in Florida, the largest being at Olustee on February 20, 1864, the second being at Natural Bridge and the location nearest to Citrus County being in Cedar Key. The battle at Olustee resulted in Union losses of more than 1,800 killed, wounded or missing, while the Confederate losses were roughly half of that. At Olustee, percentage wise the number of Union forces engaged that became casualties was one of the highest of the whole war.
The exhibit interprets two local sites which were of the Civil War time period. First the Yulee Sugar Mill in Homosassa and Chinsegut Hill just north of Brooksville in Hernando County. The Sugar Mill was built by David Levy Yulee, one of the first U. S. Senators from Florida. For twenty-three years, slaves lived and worked at Chinsegut Hill, where they grew citrus and sugarcane. Several of those slaves remained there as free men and women after the Civil War.
Additional features that add to the depth and richness of this exhibition include a multi-media presentation and a group of scrapbooks that have been created depicting other significant keynote aspects of the Civil War.
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Museum of Florida History
Tells the history of Florida, dating from Prehistoric times
Category: Tallahassee Museum in Florida
Description of this Tallahassee Attraction: Permanent exhibits include a nine-foot mastodon, Spanish galleon treasures, Civil War memorabilia, agricultural history, reconstructed steamboat and Prehistoric Florida, plus traveling exhibits. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Sunday, noon-4:30 p.m. Free admission.
500 South Bronough Street, (850)245-6400, www.flheritage.com
Motorcoach accessible, gift shop, art gallery, group tours available
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Tampa Gallery of Photographic Arts
Cut, Edit and Embellish- A Life in Collage
Category: Tampa Museum in Florida
Description of this Tampa Attraction: TAMPA GALLERY of PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS PRESENTS CUT, EDIT and EMBELLISH – A LIFE IN COLLAGE: an EXHIBITION of PHOTOGRAPHY by HUGH SHURLEY.
OCTOBER 16th 2004 – January 2nd 2005.
Using layers of single transparent images while deftly and intricately placing a myriad of other objects between – Hugh Shurley creates a unique work of photographic art full of intrigue and mystery. Found objects and shreds of other photos, historical documents, and personal mementos create a depth of field that can only be found in collage. Rather than focusing entirely on the photographs themselves, Shurley is more interested in looking deeper into the image – as he puts it: “peeling inside the photograph” – and using collage to bring out the story that seems to live within it “like an old memory.”
Mr. Shurley is a nationally acclaimed photographer who has exhibited his one-of-a-kind collage photographs throughout the country. He has taught, lectured, published books and been featured in many publications including Rolling Stone, Premier and Genre as well as a book jacket illustration for Vintage International, London. In addition, he has exhibited with the Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY; In Collaboration, Santa Monica and Akron, OH; Villa Montalvo, Los Gatos; ARU, San Francisco; SF Cameraworks. He is represented by the Art Center Gallery in Pasadena and at galleries in New York City.
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The John and Mable Ringling Museum of art
The State Art Museum of Florida
Category: Sarasota Museum near Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida
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Description of this Sarasota-Bradenton area Attraction: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is the remarkable legacy of circus entrepreneur and collector of art John Ringling and his wife, Mable.
The 66-acre estate includes the 21-gallery Museum of Art; the Venetian-Gothic Cà d’Zan mansion, winter-residence of John and Mable Ringling; historic grounds and gardens; the 18th-century Historic Asolo Theater; and the Circus Museums, including the home of the world’s largest miniature circus at the Tibbals Learning Center.
Upon his death in 1936, John Ringling left his art collection and estate to State of Florida. In 2000, the State of Florida transferred stewardship to Florida State University, establishing the Ringling estate as one of the largest museum/university complexes in the country. Today, the Museum of Art displays European, American and Asian works. The Old Master paintings, among the rarest and most celebrated in the United States, are the most important of the Museum’s holdings.
Having traveled often to Europe, John and Mable appreciated the culture and treasures of the continent’s architecture. They fell in love with Venice, and determined that their home on Sarasota Bay would emulate the grandeur of the Doge’s Palace, combined with the gothic grace of the Cà d’Oro. The mansion, completed in 1926, would soon become the epicenter of cultural life on Florida’s west coast. Their dream, to be known through Venetian dialect as the “House of John,” became what one writer called John’s “love letter to Mable.”
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World Golf Hall of Fame
Museum celebrating and recognizing golf's greatest.
Category: St. Augustine Museum near St Augustine, Florida
Description of this St Augustine area Attraction: World Golf Hall of Fame is the ultimate destination for the celebration and recognition of golf’s greatest players and contributors. The World Golf Hall of Fame opened its doors in St. Augustine, Fla., in 1998.
Supported by the world’s leading golf organizations, including Augusta National Golf Club, European PGA Tour, LPGA, PGA TOUR, PGA of America, Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews and USGA, the Hall of Fame is a not-for-profit organization.
Members of the World Golf Hall of Fame are honored extensively throughout the stately museum by means of personal and professional memorabilia, artifacts, photographs and videos. The Hall of Fame’s exhibit program includes the opening of special exhibits devoted to its members throughout the year. Traditionally, each year, the Hall of Fame opens a marquee exhibit about one of its members. Exhibits representing the personal lives and professional achievements of each inductee also are unveiled at each year’s Induction Ceremony.
The World Golf Hall of Fame not only tells the story of its members, but also traces the history of golf through stories, artifacts and distinct memorabilia, including a life-size reconstruction of the famous Swilcan Burn Bridge from the Old Course at St. Andrews; a replica 1880s-style putting green that allows visitors to use hickory-shafted putters and gutta-percha balls; and a state-of-the-art golf simulator, which allows guests to experience any one of more than 40 famous courses found around the world.
Guided tours are available and admission includes one film at the adjacent IMAX Theater and one round on the 18-hole, natural grass putting course.
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Flagler Museum
Historic House Museum & National Historic Landmark
Category: Palm Beach Museum near Palm Beaches, Florida
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Description of this Palm Beaches area Attraction: When it was completed in 1902, Whitehall, Henry Flagler's Gilded Age estate in Palm Beach, was hailed by the New York Herald as "more wonderful than any palace in Europe, grander and more magnificent than any other private dwelling in the world." Today, Whitehall is a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public as the Flagler Museum, featuring guided tours, changing exhibits, and special programs. The Museum is located at Cocoanut Row and Whitehall Way, Palm Beach. For more information, please call the Flagler Museum at 561-655-2833 or visit www.flaglermuseum.us.
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