Museums and Collections in Florida

Hands-on activities, childbirth artifacts, and a library are all part of this tiny, one-room museum that examines motherhood and women’s roles throughout history.

These large-scale reproductions of Mario Sanchez’s colorful pictures and murals feel like a walk around a small movie set, and also lead you down an imaginary “street” of past decades.

The world's largest collection of autographed baseballs can be found at the St. Petersburg Museum of History.

You’ll feel like you’ve gone through the looking glass at this contemporary art museum filled with glass sculptures of every size, shape, and color.

Step into the past and experience what life was once like in the Sunshine State.

A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.

This small Key West museum is packed with dozens of artifacts that illustrate the life of the iconic playwright.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

Of course the guy with the first patent for an ice machine lived in Florida.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.