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The Tampa Bay History Center is a state-of-the art interactive museum that displays photos, artifacts and other exhibits, and offers programming on the west central Florida's indigenous and cultural origins, ecology, immigration and settlement, the role of cigar manufacturing in Tampa and other industrial milestones, urbanization, sports, war and even a juicy mobster or pirate tale here and there.
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Swamp people
Carlton Ward Jr. and his team bring us endangered Florida, the subject of a PBS doc series.
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Make it your mission to visit the Tampa Bay History Center
Assignment: see Spies, Traitors, Saboteurs: Fear and Freedom in America if you haven't already.
Upcoming Events
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The Big Picture: A Selection of Cirkut Photographs from the Burgert Brothers Collection (Visual Arts)
- Through July 15
Past Events
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Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition: The Photographs of Carlton Ward Jr.
- Through May 5.
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JFK in Tampa 50th anniversary
- Thu., April 4 2013
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A Taste of the Big Picture
- Fri., Feb. 8, 5:30-7:30 p.m. 2013
