My Downtown Tampa

From the Florida Aquarium website:
The Florida Aquarium, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit institution astounds visitors with the beauty and fragility of our eco-system. The facility is home to more than 20,000 aquatic plants and animals from Florida and all over the world. The cornerstone of The Channel District, The Florida Aquarium’s mission since opening in 1995 is [...]

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Mementos from under the Minarets evokes the tourist and collector in all of us, and gives visitors a glimpse of the Hotel that Henry B. Plant publicized so enthusiastically when he began developing Florida. The primary focus of the exhibit is to showcase rare souvenirs, trinkets, remembrances and memorabilia featuring the Tampa Bay Hotel–everything from [...]

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From the Tampa Bay Business Journal:
The Tampa Museum of Art will be renamed the Cornelia Corbett Center upon its opening in fall 2009.
Corbett was board chair at the museum from 2004 to 2007 and remains a trustee. The board awarded her in 2007 with the Jeanne Rozier Winter Distinguished Award for [...]

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NOTE: The Tampa Museum of Art’s collection is in storage and on loan while TMA is housed in its temporary location at 2306 N. Howard Avenue in Tampa. Parking is free and admission is by donation while in the temporary location.

Construction of the new museum facility in downtown Tampa’s Curtis Hixon Park [...]

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The Tampa Museum of Art launched a new phase of its capital campaign to build a new facility.
The TMA Square Foot Society is now accepting contributions equal to the cost of a square foot of the new building’s construction.
TMA SQUARE FOOT SOCIETY
Step Up, Make A Difference
And Help Create The Experience.
A project of this magnitude requires [...]

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From the Henry B. Plant Museum website:
If you’re railroad magnate Henry Bradley Plant, in the midst of the sand swamps that would be Tampa, you construct the most astonishingly magnificent hotel of its day, then fill it with treasures from around the world. With its splendid Moorish architecture, opulent furnishings, and spectacular tropical gardens, Plant’s [...]

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