Celebrate autumn with this free, fun-filled event! Want to carve your own pumpkin to take home? Play games and win prizes? Enjoy some tasty pumpkin treats? Come out with your friends and family for a day filled with excitement in our 8th Annual Taste of Pumpkin Festival.
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Florida Girls & Boys & Their Toys
Toys are for girls and boys – right? Actually, we’re never too old to appreciate them! In fact, as we get older, it’s hard to erase the excitement we felt from owning a favorite toy. Though toys have changed over time – plastics have replaced metals and corners aren’t so sharp – they still occupy […]
Sidewalk Science Center: Creating Educational Experiences in Public Spaces
When was the last time you conducted a science experiment? Have you looked at Jupiter or Saturn through a telescope recently? Have you held a gyroscope as it defies gravity, or conducted electricity through a chain of people at the playground? When you visit a Sidewalk Science Center, you get to participate in all of […]
The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
The human fascination with seashells is primal. Archeological evidence suggests that Neanderthals collected cockle shells on the coast of what is modern Spain, perhaps preferring those they found beautiful. Native Americans built “great cities of shell” on the coasts, later carted off for road fill. In the 1950s, the nation burned with a shell-collecting fever […]
Destination Moon
On July 24, 1969, Apollo 11 met President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 challenge of “landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” The poster exhibition from the Smithsonian, Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission, explores what led the United States to accept this challenge and how the resulting 953,054-mile voyage […]
Upstairs Downstairs at the Tampa Bay Hotel
Step back in time and enjoy the single-character performances that bring turn-of–the-century Tampa Bay Hotel staff members and guests to life. Each character is based wholly or in part on actual hotel staff and guests. Based on original research conducted by the Henry Plant Museum, these characters recreate the attitudes and mores of a bygone time, […]
End the Misery: Tigers in Captivity
There are approximately 10,000-20,000 tigers being held in captivity by private owners in the United States. The exact number is unknown because the current laws make it difficult to track a tiger once it has outlived its usefulness as a cub for petting and photo ops. The lives of these tigers are miserable with little […]
Thirty Hills: The Cool and the Crazy
What’s one of the tiger’s habitats? The rain forest! Join us on this day as we explore the mysterious world of the rain forests in Sumatra and discover some of the cool, the crazy, and the downright creepy creatures that lived there. Following the talk, we will have art activities for everyone to partake in! […]
“Tiger! Tiger!” Exhibition
Imagine walking down a generations-old road. A rustle off to the side makes you snap to attention, and you hold your breath as a tiger crosses your path. Her ancestors have used this same road for as many generations as yours. In some parts of the world, people share their environment with tigers just as […]
Visual Literacy Through Photography Showcase
We invite you to join us on Friday, July 22 at 5 PM to enjoy the Children’s Visual Literacy Through Photography exhibition. This program reaches out to under-resourced communities in Tampa and Hillsborough County, where children need extracurricular programs to give them the edge to excel in their futures. FMoPA’s photography workshops provide an incredible […]