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Children's Museum of Tampa
Located near Lowry Park Zoo and also known as Kid City, this place has rotating, hands-on interactive displays and a permanent, 45,000-sq-ft outdoor exhibition that kids love: child-size replicas of 13 municipal buildings, each with activities. Care to try your hand as a judge in the courthouse or a reporter at a TV station?
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Contemporary Art Museum
The University of South Florida's museum mounts six to eight exhibitions by university students and alumni.
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Henry B Plant Museum
Railroad magnate Henry B Plant's Tampa Bay Hotel, which opened in 1891, was one of the most luxurious places imaginable in the early days of the city, when Tampa was about as remote as Miami. All 500 guestrooms had private bathrooms and electricity, and the extravagant hotel contained all the furniture, sculptures and mirrors Plant's wife had collected during their European and Oriental travels.
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Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI)
With upwards of 450 'minds-on' activities, hyperactive kids will think they're in heaven at this museum. There is a cool hot-air balloon exhibit, as well as ones on the human body and the annual garbage pile generated by the average American. Enter a flight avionics simulator or a Gulf Coast hurricane before hitting the trail through the wetland preserve.
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Tampa Museum of Art
This mod museum boasts impressive classical Greek and Roman antiquities. It also features rotating exhibitions - from the avant-garde to old masters, from sculpture and photography to works by emerging Floridian artists. Overlooking the Hillsborough River, the glassed-in Terrace Gallery provides a great backdrop for sculptures, and the grounds are a great spot for a picnic.
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Ybor City State Museum
Covering about half a city block, this museum includes La Casita (a reconstructed 'shotgun'-style abode that housed immigrant cigar workers), the Ferlita Bakery (with its original brick ovens and exhibits on the bakery and cigar industry), cigar-rolling demonstrations (call for exact days and times) and fascinating photographs of the cigar factories and late 19th-century Ybor City. Informative walking tours (around US$6 ) are offered on Saturday at .
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