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Brandon Ballet’s Nutcracker at The Plant Mseum

Brandon Ballet’s Nutcracker at The Plant Mseum

The holiday season is in full swing, so kick off a very merry season with Brandon Ballet at the Henry B. Plant Museum! Dancers from the Brandon Ballet will present a shortened performance of The Nutcracker. Brandon Ballet’s Museum Nutcracker performance is FREE with Henry B. Plant Museum admission.

Cracker Country Museum Day

Come discover rural Florida history through hands-on activities and pioneer chores. Tour our historic buildings such as our 1885 Carlton House, 1891 General Store, and 1898 Okahumpka Train Depot. Join in on a one-room school house lesson, try your skills at rolling hoops, or dip a $2 beeswax candle all while listening to the sounds […]

Imagined East: Decorative Arts and the Imperial Gaze

Imagined East: Decorative Arts and the Imperial Gaze

Visitors to the Henry Plant Museum marvel at the building’s Moorish-inspired architecture and the fantastic collection of orientalist décor housed inside.  Imagined East: Decorative Arts and the Imperial Gaze will explore the roots of Orientalism, its appeal and significance as a decorative style, and the cultural impact of this movement.  The exhibit will feature original artifacts from […]

Female Superheroes: What Are Their Real Powers?

Female Superheroes: What Are Their Real Powers?

When Superman first flew onto comic book pages, the Kryptonian set the bar for the future of the medium. Female superheroes also filled those pages from the start, but their portrayal has been a subject of controversy. This presentation by Magdalena Lamarre examines how women are perceived in popular culture through the lens of comic […]

The African Roots of American Cuisine

The African Roots of American Cuisine

African American food ways can be traced back to Africa, along the stretches of Olduvai Gorge, from which humans had their common origin and where the first meals were eaten. In this lecture, Dr. Martha Bireda will discuss the journey of African foods from the village, the Middle Passage, into the cabins of the enslaved, […]

African Roots of Southern Cooking

African Roots of Southern Cooking

African Americans developed a cultured identity through “soul” and associated food ways of people of African descent over hundreds of years. In this exhibit, we will explore the vast variety in African American cooking; from foods prepared by enslaved Africans in British America and the antebellum South; in the urban centers during the Great Migration; […]