Art, Botanical Garden, Children's, Library

The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens is located on the St. Johns River and is noted for its collection of more than 5,000 masterworks of American and European paintings, beautiful historic gardens, outstanding collection of Meissen porcelain and Art Connections, the museum's national award-winning art education center.

Art, Culture, History, Military, Specialized

The Jacksonville Automotive Museum, a 501(c)3 Educational Not For Profit organization is the first of its' kind on the First Coast, bringing a World Class automotive experience to Jacksonville!

History

The Jacksonville Maritime Museum Society, Inc. is a non-profit educational association that collects, preserves and interprets the maritime history by the collection of books, documents, artifacts and preserving them; and interprets them to the public by means of museum educational programs, lectures and publications.

Art

Includes documents and manuscripts such as: the proposal draft of the United States Bill of Rights; The Emancipation Proclamation Amendment to the United States Constitution; and original drafts of the National Constitutions of France, Spain and Mexico; Scientific manuscripts including Descarte and Kepler; Historical documents including Pope Lucius' Proclomation of the Sacred Duties of the Knights of the Holy Crusades; and similar monumental documents in literature, history, exploration, and art. Exhibits change quarterly. Also, children's program includes over 20 theme rooms for future career exploration and play, for young children.

Park

Art

The Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, formerly the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, is located downtown in a newly renovated historic building containing five galleries, a theatre, studio classrooms, and the ArtExplorium Loft family learning center.

History

To provide an educational convenience whose contents are of public appeal to persons interested in the history of the southern United States. It is dedicated to preserve the entire lifestyle of the antebellum south...a unique civilization, and honorable chapter of american history that is...gone with the wind. To this end, the museum displays and features artifacts and memorabilia from the antebellum period. In addition, the museum maintains a non-lending research library which contains approximately 3000 volumes on southern literature,history,art architecture, economy and government.

History

Art, History

Art

To provide an opportunity for the college students and the community to experience art. This is accomplished through the various exhibitions and through artists lectures and related special programs .

History, Natural History, Park

Fort Caroline memorializes the short-lived French presence in sixteenth century Florida. Here you will find stories of exploration, survival, religious disputes, territorial battles, and first contact between American Indians and Europeans. The museum also describes other significant cultural and natural features located within the boundaries of the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve.

Historical Society

Botanical Garden, Zoo

Archaeology, History, Historic House, Natural History, Park

You can explore the grounds at Kingsley Plantation, which include the slave quarters, barn, waterfront, plantation house, kitchen house, and interpretive garden. The visitor contact station and bookstore are located in a 1920s building adjacent to the plantation buildings. The plantation house is open for tours on a limited basis. Please call for information and reservations. A free audio tour is available, please inquire at the visitor contact station.

Art, Culture, History, Historic House, Historical Society, Park

In the 1800s, Mandarin was a small farming village that shipped oranges, grapefruit, lemons and other fruits and vegetables to Jacksonville and points north on the steamships that traveled the St. Johns River. In 1864, the Union steamship, the Maple Leaf, hit a Confederate mine and sank just off Mandarin Point. Author Harriet Beecher Stowe wintered in the village from 1867 to 1884. Mandarin now is a small section of the City of Jacksonville, Florida, but its natural beauty, parks and historic buildings draw visitors from around the world. The Mandarin Museum at the Walter Jones Historical Park is open. Special tours may be requested.

Culture, History, Natural History, Nature Centers, Planetarium, Science

Investigate whales, dolphins, and manatees in Atlantic Tails. Travel through space in the Bryan-Gooding Planetarium. Relive Northeast Florida History in Currents of Time. Come face-to-face with animals of the region in the Florida Naturalist's Center, and get moving with Health in Motion.

Art

History, Historic House, Natural History, Park