Tampa Bay is host to some great museums and science
centers. It's all in a days work to learn about Tampa's past or get a
better understanding of how the human body works.
Armed Forces Military Museum (Largo) If
you kids play Modern Warfare then you gotta go here! Guns, landmines,
uniforms, tanks, all sorts of War Memorabilia are on the display here.
Walk into a WW1 trench and relive WWII from the flight deck of a
Japanese aircraft.....more.
American Victory Ship (Tampa) Climb
aboard the American Victory Ship! You can explore a fully-functioning
1940s era steamship. This 455 foot vessel served in WWII, the Korean
War and the Vietnam conflicts. On your self guided tour you can.....more
David L. Mason Children's Museum (Dunedin)- A fun hands on space that helps children explore art through play......more
Florida Museum of Natural History
Learn all about Florida's past at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Drawing upon the Florida Museum's internationally acclaimed fossil collections, this award-winning exhibit
describes the last 65 million years of Florida's history. Walk through time beginning with the Eocene, when
Florida was underwater, to the Pleistocene when the first humans arrived 14,000 years ago. More than 90
percent of the 500 fossils are real and many were found within 100 miles of Gainesville. more
Florida Railroad Museum
All Aboard! Climb aboard and ride a vintage train. Open the window and let your mind wander as the countryside rolls on by. The museum operated train rides year round on Saturdays and Sundays at 11am and 2pm. The museum also has special events through out the year including the polar express, the pumpkin patch express and many others. Tickets to special events usually sell out so you should plan ahead and purchase your tickets early....more
Explorations V (Lakeland) A totally hands-on museum where kids can play "grown up" for a day. Kids are taken on a jet stream journey of discovery as the y explore three floors of kid-powered exhibits. Learn about water conservation, the wonders of the human body, how oranges are turned into orange juice or become a broadcast journalist for a day....
Great Explorations (St. Petersburg)- One
the areas best indoor hands on museums for kids. All exhibits are kid
friendly and hands on. Run a pizzeria, live in a tree house, pretend your a vet, run the check out at Publixs, make a model car then see if it is fast enough to beat the other models. All of the exhibits are Learn through explorations.......more
Heritage Village - Largo
Go back in time and spend a day exploring what the past lives of residents of Tampa Bay was like. A 21-acre living history museum that is set in a landscape of shaded pine trees. Walk the trails and discover more than 28 historic houses, schools, a railroad depot and other structures that have been relocated here. Lots of room for kids to explore.....more
