Museum sights in Fort Myers
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Edison & Ford Winter Estates
Say ‘American innovation’ and Thomas Edison (lightbulb, phonograph, voice recorder telegraph, etc.) and Henry Ford (mass production, Ford motors) are good contenders for word–image association. Both of these frontier pushers chose Fort Myers as their warm-weather winter-break spot, and their Estates are one of the prime tourism draws in Lee County. Each estate drips with Florida architectural heritage (including one of the state’s first modern swimming pools), while adjacent gardens are a wonderful green escape. A museum extensively catalogues the lives of Edison and Ford, and special events, concerts and educational days spring up throughout the year. Prices and times su…
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Fort Myers Historical Museum
This museum is a hit with kids if only to tour the Esperanza, a private Pullman railroad car. Permanent exhibits document the city's history and include Calusa and Seminole artifacts and a display on Colonel Myers - the man for whom the city is named (though he never actually visited his namesake fort). Other exhibits include a Spanish cannon, a complete saber-toothed tiger (Smilodon) skeleton and an early rural pioneer home, or 'cracker' house. There is also an exhibit on Fort Myers' two WWII training bases, which trained British, American, Canadian, Russian and Yugoslavian pilots and gunners.
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Art of the Olympians
This unique gallery is dedicated to showing the relationship between art and sport by exhibiting works by Olympic athletes like Al Oerter, Larry Young, Shane Gould and Florence Griffith-Joyner (Flojo!).
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Southwest Florida Museum of History
Although there are historical items here, this spot focuses more on cataloguing Southwest Florida’s natural history, human communities and ecosystems.
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Alliance for the Arts
The official arts center in Lee County, the Alliance houses three galleries exhibiting on 325 days out of the year.
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