Travel Reference
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Morean Arts Center
ARTS CENTER
727-822-7872;
www.moreanartscenter.org
;
719 Central Ave;
10am-5pm
Mon-Sat, from noon Sun)
This lively community arts center hosts interesting rotating exhibits in all media. If you
love glass, don't miss Morean's attached
Hot Shop
( 727-827-4527; adult/child $9/5;
noon-5pm Mon-Sat)
where full-blast glassmaking demonstrations occur every half-hour.
Reserve ahead for a one-on-one 'hot glass experience' ($75) and take home your own cre-
ation.
St Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts
MUSEUM
10am-5pm Mon-Sat, to 8pm Thu, from noon Sun)
The Museum of Fine Arts collection is as broad as the DalĂ Museum's is deep, traversing
the world's antiquities and following art's progression through nearly every era.
Florida Holocaust Museum
MUSEUM
727-820-0100;
www.flholocaustmuseum.org
; 55 5th St S; adult/student
$16/8; 10am-5pm)
The understated exhibits of this Holocaust museum, one of the country's largest, present
mid-20th-century events with moving directness. Temporary, contemporary art exhibits
loosely related to the Holocaust and other human rights issues are also displayed here.
St Petersburg Museum of History
MUSEUM
10am-5pm Wed-Sat, noon-5pm Sun)
As city history museums go, St Pete's is intriguingly oddball: a real 3000-year-old
mummy, a two-headed calf, a life-sized replica of a Benoist plane, plus exhibits on Tampa
Bay Rays baseball, bay ecology and more.