| | | We're In It Together |  With many in our community facing pay cuts, layoffs, furloughs, and financial crises, the Tallahassee Museum has launched a campaign to enable people to enjoy rewarding experiences despite their economic burdens
The campaign, titled "We're In It Together," provides very affordable opportunities for people to spend quality time together.
From now through September, the Tallahassee Museum will waive or reduce its pricing to make the Museum more accessible for those who are being affected by the economic slowdown.
Click Here to see more about how the Museum is helping. |
| From the Director | | We were very pleased to have received a number of complimentary emails and good suggestions in response to the launch of last month's inaugural Tallahassee Museum E-News. We also discovered an added benefit to this new format...we can actually track how many people viewed the E-News and which articles were most popular. Thank you! With the conclusion of the legislative session last month, we now know that virtually no State funding was appropriated for the many cultural and historical organizations throughout the state. For the Tallahassee Museum, this may result in a funding loss of up $92,000 compared to our current year funding. The exact funding loss will not be known until later when we learn if we were able to secure any of the money that was allocated. [ More ] |
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| Florida In The Civil War- Opens June 15 |  The Civil War comes alive this summer as the Tallahassee Museum presents an outstanding new exhibit: Florida in the Civil War. This exhibit, in the Phipps Gallery through Sept. 15, relates the often overlooked story of Florida's important contributions to the war effort. It is on loan from the Orange County Regional History Center in Orlando, one of Florida's largest history museums and a leading provider of traveling exhibitions.
Fifteen-thousand Floridians, the largest percentage of population of any Southern state, left their homes to fight in the Civil War. Learn about the significant role Florida played during the war and what the state did to supply the South with two of its most important commodities: salt and beef. [ More ] |
| Summer Guest Animal - Exotic Ocelot | A strikingly beautiful animal will be visiting the Tallahassee Museum's Guest Animal habitat this summer.
The animal is an ocelot, a species of cat about the size of a bobcat whose markings are so beautiful it was nearly hunted to extinction by the fur industry. Now protected, the species is recovering.
Ocelots ( Felis pardalis) are found from the American Southwest through Central America and from the Amazon rain forest to the Andes Mountains. The U.S. population is now restricted to southern Texas with about 120 animals remaining. The main requirement for these cats is a dense growth of plants. [ More ] |
| Tallahassee Museum Summer Camps | Summer Camps are happening now! Looking for a camp experience where you make friends, learn to meet new challenges, enjoy nature, learn about our past, and just have a lot of fun? The Tallahassee Museum offers campers the opportunity to live in the past while learning how to plan for the future. The Museum has provided quality camps in this area for over 30 years. [ More ] |
| From Our Collections | The Joy of Paper Dolls
 Do you remember paper dolls? The two-dimensional printed dolls came with a paper wardrobe. It took careful work with scissors to artfully cut out the doll and its assortment of paper clothes, making sure not to tear the white tabs that extended from the outfits, since those were needed to attach the garment to the doll's body. During the 20th century, publishers and toy companies produced a variety of paper dolls for children's enjoyment. Hollywood starlets, smiling girls and boys, and even cuddly paper-doll animals provided inexpensive entertainment and kept many a child occupied for hours. [ More ] |
| Swamp Stomp Music Festival | Savor the summertime flavor of outdoor performances by singer-songwriters at the Tallahassee Museum's 31st annual Swamp Stomp on Saturday, July 11, 4-9 p.m. Plus, feast on watermelon and ice cream on the Big Bend Farm, compete in a seed-spitting contest, see native Florida animals up close, dig for fossils, and play old-fashioned games such as Graces (hoop and stick). The musical line-up includes contemporary acoustic, Americana, folk, bluegrass, and Del Suggs' saltwater music. [ More ] |
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