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The Art Museum strives to strengthen the community it serves by fostering opportunities for civic engagement. Volunteering at the Art Museum allows individuals the learn new skills, network and partner with one of the community's outstanding cultural organizations. The Art Museum's strong and vibrant Volunteer Guild plays an integral role in daily operations by assisting with gallery reception and tours, exhibition installations, Summer Camp, Family Days, and special events, including the annual Sidewalk Art Show and Women's Luncheon. Guests will tour the Art Museum's exciting new exhibition, Gifts, and will speak with current volunteers and staff about opportunities to get involved. Guests also will learn how they can lend their talents to the success of the Art Museum's extraordinary new building.
Florida International Museum (FIM) has become one of Florida's premier cultural attractions, having hosted over 2.5 million visitors from all 50 states and over 100 countries since it opened in 1995. The museum is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization, dedicated to providing educational, cultural and historical exhibitions. To date, over 700,000 school children have toured the museum. In 1999, the museum opened year-round for the first time with John F. Kennedy: The Exhibition which closed in 2003. In 2000 The Cuban Missile Crisis exhibition opened, focusing on the events of 1962. This exhibit closed in 2005 and will be on exhibit at the soon to be built Cold War Museum in Virginia . Also in 2000, the museum became an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution and has since housed artifacts from the Smithsonian and traveling exhibitions on a rotating basis. In 2001, the FIM Board agreed to create a museum of popular experiences, through diverse rotating national and international exhibitions. Since that time, rotating exhibit partners have included: The Norman Rockwell Museum (Stockbridge, MA), The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, The Mary Brogan Museum of Art & Science (Tallahassee), The Daytona Museum of Arts & Science (Daytona, FL), The John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota), Museum of the City of New York, Arts & Exhibitions International, Art Vision Exhibitions, The State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia), Baseball Hall of Fame (Cooperstown, NY), as well as Smithsonian Traveling Exhibitions representing various Smithsonian museums. Prior blockbuster exhibitions presented by the museum include the inaugural exhibition Treasures of the Czars, plus Splendors of Ancient Egypt, Alexander the Great, Titanic: The Exhibition, Empires of Mystery and John F. Kennedy: The Exhibition. Titanic alone drew over 800,000 visitors, making it one of the country's top exhibitions in recent times. OPEN NOW is Vatican Splendors - celebrating 500 years of Saint Peter's Basilica, the Vatican Museums and Swiss Guard. A once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of the Vatican 's extraordinary collections of Art and historical objects. The museum is a founding partner of The Looper, a private-public partnership transportation project that links all downtown museums together on a thirty-minute schedule seven days a week. FIM offers numerous educational programs and teacher's guides for most major exhibitions. The museum store helps support the museum's mission of providing an educational and cultural experience to visitors. The Florida International Museum is located at 244 Second Avenue North in downtown St. Petersburg . Please visit us at www.floridamuseum.org or call 727-341-7900.
Created by unanimous act of Congress, the Museum is America,s national institution for Holocaust education and remembrance. A unique public-private partnership, the Museum brings the history and lessons of the Holocaust to Americans from all walks of life through educational outreach, teacher training, traveling exhibitions, and scholarship. Since its dedication in April 1993, the Museum has welcomed 23 million visitors, including more than 7 million children.
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