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Tampa Museum of Art offers pay-what-you-can admission every Thursday night

Now if we could just get more museums to hold late-night weekends.

By Ray Roa on Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 11:54 am

Photo by Keir Magoulas/Visit Tampa Bay

Tampa Museum of Art located at 120 W Gasparilla Plz. in Tampa, Florida.

Some people want to see museums in Tampa Bay stay open later on weekend nights.

And while there’s no definitive museum to regularly catch great art after dark, you can at least get into Tampa’s big gallery for free once a week. Every Thursday, from 4 p.m.-8 p.m., guests can pay-what-they-want for entry to the Tampa Museum of Art (any donation is welcome, but no one’s gonna look at you weird if you don’t have any to spare).

On display now are Guyanese-born artist Suchitra Mattai’s found objects show “Bodies and Souls,” Esterio Segura’s “Hybrid of a Chrysler” sculpture parked on the second-story overlook (pictured), the abstract paintings in Vaughn Spann’s “Allegories,” and more.

Tampa Museum of Art offers pay-what-you-want admission every Thursday from 4 p.m.-8 p.m.

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Ray Roa

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...

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