Henry B. Plant Museum  

Until May 2004:  Thirty minute award-winning live theater historical presentation from the perspective of hotel staff or guests at the Tampa Bay Hotel. 

Babe Ruth signed his first baseball contract in the grand dining room of what hotel?

Send your friends Key lime cookies in a Tampa Bay Hotel Collector Tin from the gift shop.  

Museum of Science and Industry

Museum of Fine Arts - St. Petersburg  

From the web site: "The Museum of Fine Arts has the only comprehensive art collection, extending from antiquity to the present day, on the Florida west coast."

Florida International Museum - St. Petersburg  

Ringling Museum  

Sarasota - world famous

From the web site: "The Museum of Art, recognized as the state art museum of Florida, includes 21 galleries of internationally recognized European and American art with paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, Poussin and other baroque masters."

Florida Art Museums

Florida Historical Museums

Appelton Museum -- Ocala

Wide range of beauty represented in art.  The Appelton will interest even those who are inclined to pass right on by all art museums.   

From FlaUSA.com "Florida's largest year round lineup of internationally acclaimed special exhibitions. Permanent collections feature: International Contemporary Art, a renowned collection of 19th Century European paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts dramatically displayed in the French Salon-style, antiquities, West African, pre-Columbian and Asian art. Movies, workshops, lectures and special events."

Tampa Museum of Art

Florida Holocaust Museum  

Artists Unlimited  

From its web site:  "In 1989 a group of eight founding artists wanted to find a place where they could work, create art and invite the public to view the process. At that time there was no such place in Tampa. Their need developed the concept and Artists Unlimited was born. It was that same year that they incorporated to become The Center for the Creative Thinkers. To date, AUI remains the only fully programmed visual arts facility in the Bay area."

Salvador Dali Museum  

I am sure it was my uneducated pedestrian taste that caused me to first think this link should be placed in the "Just Plain Odd" section.  

Florida Historic Movie Posters 

Jerry Lewis' The Bellboy and Sean Connery's Goldfinger were filmed in part at which Miami hotel?

Performing Arts

Ticketmaster  

The link is to Ticketmaster's list of events -- a good way to see what is happening all over this part of Florida -- from concerts to sports to family events like Barney for children.

Telephone: 287-8844

Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center

Ruth Eckerd Hall

Bayfront Center - St. Petersbug  

This link also has a handy list of the major St. Pete venues.

Mafaffey Theater  In St. Petersburg  

Tampa Bay Symphony  

Florida Orchestra   

Sunshine Brass Band  

The band has a new CD

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